British Athletic Federation

Advantages: A thorough exploration of a supreme era in British sport
Disadvantages: Dry where it needs to be exciting

...: Roger Federer and Tiger Woods. Think of all the other sports contested worldwide and I think you'll agree. Football has had nobody globally exciting for years (Ronaldinho briefly shone to that extent before retreating to his ancestral home of the nightclub, and I DARE anyone to suggest Cristiano Ronaldo), there is no-one in athletics, no-one liable to unite all opinions in cricket, far too many boxing organisations to throw up any unequivocal superstars...I could go on. So why are some folk labouring under the delusion that we're fortunate to be living in a golden age? Well, it's the media. Obviously. Never before has a generation (which loves to consider itself cynical and knowing) been so vulnerable to naked, unadulterated hype. The Premier League is the best football league in the world. Why? Is it a) because it genuinely is, or b... Read review

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Advantages: Fascinating story about a fascinating subject.
Disadvantages: Could have been better-written.

...Maths is beautiful and may, in the end, be the most important thing in the universe. If you’ve never been able to see its charms, this book may help to lift the veil a little. It's the story of one man's obsessive and ultimately successful search for the key to a mathematical riddle that a French genius called Pierre de Fermat first claimed to have solved in the seventeenth century. He made the claim in the margin of a book, but didn't have space, he said, to give the proof he said he had discovered. In the centuries since then some of the finest minds on earth have tried to re-discover his proof and some of them have said that it doesn't exist. The British mathematician Andrew Wiles thought he could succeed where everyone else had failed, and he was right. Singh describes how he prepared himself for the endeavor like an Olympic... Read review

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Advantages: A great starting point for this type of training
Disadvantages: There are no illustrations

...MENTAL TRAINING FOR PEAK PERFORMANCE is a great book. Many athletes under use their brains when it comes to sport. However, you can change that with this book and learn plenty of tips to help you “train your brain”. The author , Steven Ungerleider, is a member of the US Olympic Committee Sports Psychology Registry, and has worked with many top athletes. Fortunately he writes in such a way which makes this subject both interesting and practical. There are chapters on cycling specific exercises and weight training plus worksheets, real life examples and top performers “secrets”.... Read review

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