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Best Cricket

A Clear Blue Sky: A remarkable memoir about family, loss and the will to overcome
He was a gifted and natural athlete, with potential careers ahead of him in rugby and football, but he eventually chose cricket and came to build a career that followed in his father’s footsteps, eventually reaching the pinnacle of the sport and breaking the record for most Test runs in a year by a wicketkeeper.
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"Obviously, what happened in his past has made him who he is today; the death of his father being somewhat of a key point in his timeline, sadly coming at the same time as his mum's serious illness. I found the way he compared and contrasted the way cricket was played and run during both his and his father's times; including some very interesting politics. The rest of the book is more a tribute to the people who got him where he is today, his mum and sister to name the main players here and he downplays his own part quite admirably at times although his courage and tenacity screams out from between the lines."
"It is worth reading for this alone, bit there is also some very good stuff about David's character and influence on his son as well as a pretty decent account of Jonny's own progression in cricket. Personally I wasn't; I thought Jonny's assessments of his fellow players was fair and although he is possibly generous at times I like that he refuses to give salacious or damaging accounts of people but concentrates largely on his own game and attitude to it. For example, Ian Bell at one point is described thus: "He'd sometime hold the final position of a shot, as though posing for a sculptor who was about to start chipping away at some vast block of stone," and Andrew Flintoff's arm around Brett Lee's shoulders was apparently "an act of Corinthian compassion.""
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HOME WORKOUT CIRCUIT TRAINING: 6 week exercise band workout & bodyweight training for fat loss, strength and muscle tone
These qualities are more valuable than having the worlds most qualified and expensive personal trainer at your disposal If you are looking for a home workout fitness routine that: •Can be done from your own home. •Uses minimal fitness equipment and utilises bodyweight training. •Is progressive for at least 6 weeks. •Is designed to effectively burn fat, tone muscle and develop cardiovascular fitness. •Won’t take you more than 30 minutes four times a week. Then this is the one for you! So I have designed this home workout training routine to effectively burn fat, tone muscle and develop cardiovascular fitness. But my home workout routine is not something that will take up hours of your day, I can tell you that you won’t even need to train every day, you just have to follow the routine that will last less than 30 minutes for a maximum of four days per week and each week, you will have a slight upgrade to the previous week. This type of consistent progressive training is a sure fire way to get your fitness results! It explains the correct way to perform each type of training, with plenty of photos showing the proper exercise techniques. "Home Workout Circuit Training is a hands on exercise and fitness training regimen that helps you understand the basics of cardio and weight training, along with all the factors you need to consider to successfully build your body strong and blast fat! Hi, I'm Jim, and I have a burning desire to help YOU reach your fitness goals. Do you want to reach your fitness goals? This training has taken me from long distance running to bodybuilding competition. I strongly believe that anyone can get the fitness results that they want. If you are far behind on your fitness goals, have no access to a gym or can't afford a gym membership, and really have no money to spend on expensive gym equipment to hit your weight loss and fat burning goals, then make sure to check out my HOME WORKOUT Program series. Or do you have other fitness goals? Maybe you are looking to start running and have ambitious ideas about this training or even if your idea is to pack on some serious muscle? Or maybe you struggle with fitness motivation?
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"He is a realistic, thoughtful, caring, but direct coach and he foregoes any ballyhoo about promises that can't be kept. His exercise descriptions are not only words, but actual photographs of the exercise being demonstrated so that it is very clear what he expects of his trainees: pushups, rows, bodyweight squats, bicep curls, shoulder press, tricep dips, Swiss ball crunches, star jumps, floor cleans, pullovers, lateral raises, calf raises, squatting jump starts, alternate squat thrusts, crawling steps, elevated bench dips, double tricep extensions, dorsal raises, hammer curls, single leg lunges, squat thrusts, Frisbee walk aways, military bursts, dorsal hyper pulls, and close grip push ups. He keeps it light but committed, focused, showing the correct manner in which to do sets with excellent photographs to assure you are aligned with his concept, and even gives bonuses such as a terrific set of healthful recipes!"
"Home Workout Circuit Training is a hands on exercise and fitness training regimen that helps you understand the basics of cardio and weight training, along with all the factors you need to consider to successfully build your body strong and blast fat!"
"I really enjoyed the motivational quotes inside the book."
"The book arrived in excellent condition and in a timely fashion."
"What a great workout book!"
"Con: You will need a more advanced book if you wish to expand your program."
"HOME WORKOUT CIRCUIT TRAINING: 6 week exercise band workout & bodyweight training for fat loss, strength and muscle tone by James Atkinson, does what the title says."
"This a great book for people who work out at home like me."
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Meal Prep: Beginner's Guide to 70+ Quick and Easy Low Carb Keto Recipes to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast (Meal Prep Series Book 2)
A straightforward guide to meal prepping and avoiding meal prep mistakes A 30-day suggested keto meal plan based on the recipes in this book 12 delicious and satisfying meal prep-friendly breakfast recipes 15 delectable and filling meal prep-friendly lunch recipes 12 savory and scrumptious meal prep-friendly dinner recipes 16 crowd and cravings pleasing meal prep-friendly snack recipes 17 yummy and creamy meal prep-friendly smoothie and dessert recipes.
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"This book contains the steps to effectively meal prepping at home and, best of all, over 70 meal prep-friendly low carb Keto dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, smoothies, and even desserts."
"Preparing meals for my family can be difficult when you’re running out of ideas especially when you are considering healthy and tasty dishes."
"This Meal Prep book offers recipes and The book starts off with great tips however, is that you can choose to meal prep your low carb keto meals."
"Here you can get meal prepping and avoiding meal prep mistakes, 30-day suggested keto meal plan, delicious and satisfying meal and so many tips and tricks."
"This is an amazing beginner's guide book with a lots easy and quick recipes.This book contains the following to help you meal prep keto diet meals effectively.Inside this book you will find delicious and satisfying meal prep-friendly breakfast recipes,delectable and filling meal prep-friendly lunch recipes and much more.I hope you must find this book helpful."
"Recipes of high quality, healthy and delicious home made Keto Diet meals for every day are proposed by Mark Evans."
"Impressive!"
"This book contains the steps to effectively meal prepping at home and, best of all, over 70 meal prep- friendly low carb keto dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, smoothies, and even desserts."
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Best Lacrosse

Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
And it continues to captivate the nation: the Duke lacrosse team members‘ alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them. As well reported in detail by respected legal journalist Taylor and Brooklyn College historian Johnson, the facts of the case speak for themselves: rogue prosecutor Mike Nifong willfully disregarded evidence of the boys' innocence; Duke administrators hung the team members out to dry; much of Duke's faculty and the media rushed to assume guilt in the racially charged case (the New York Times comes in for special opprobrium). But these facts are embedded in repetitiously hammering home the basic points, sarcasm and ranting against the political correctness (i.e., obsession with the race-class-gender triad) of academia and the media. The authors challenge the academic credentials of the black faculty members who attacked the team and criticize the Times 's Selena Roberts for choosing to live in lily white Westport, Conn. In total contrast, the closing chapters offer balanced, tautly argued discussions of, and remedies for, the central problems: prosecutorial abuse, the frequency of false rape accusations and academic groupthink. In their vivid, at times chilling account, the authors are contemptuous of prosecutor Mike Nifong, whom the North Carolina legal establishment disbarred for his by now well-documented misconduct.
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"This is a well told, documented, detailed look at the Duke Lacrosse case where 3 Duke students were prosecuted/persecuted because of their race and their background."
"Ultimately, the case was dropped and in an unusual move, the boys were declared innocent without a trial(usually these cases are dropped for lack of evidence and had this happened in this case, a large proportion of the population of Durham would have insisted the boys used money to buy justice)."
"Made all the more powerful by recent events Until Proven Innocent shows how easy it is for the media and interested parties to create a lynch mob in search of victims."
"This is a story of the obvious ignored, aggravated by police and prosecutors with an agenda, and a cowardly and complicit college administration influence by "protestors" armed with signs and slogans but no facts."
"Great read and we'll written and researched."
"I have not yet read the book."
"I thought that the authors went a bit overboard claiming Nifong developed a hate for lacrosse players because UNC law school overlooked the practice fields."
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Best Track & Field

Daniels' Running Formula-3rd Edition
Get in the best shape of your running career with the help of Daniels’ Running Formula, the book that Runner’s World magazine calls the best training book. Premier running coach Jack Daniels provides you with his legendary VDOT formula to guide you through training at exactly the right intensity to run stronger, longer, and faster. “In one way or another, today’s serious runners abide by training principles rooted in Jack Daniels’ research and philosophy and outlined in his famous book, Daniels’ Running Formula.” — Running Times. “In one way or another, today’s serious runners abide by training principles rooted in Jack Daniels’ research and philosophy and outlined in his famous book, Daniels’ Running Formula .”. Jack Daniels has been called the world’s best coach by Runner’s World magazine. Daniels has decades of experience as a track and cross country coach at institutions such as Oklahoma City University, the University of Texas, Brevard College, and the State University of New York at Cortland. Since 1997 Daniels has been the national running coach advisor for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program, which involves coaching thousands of marathon runners each year.
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"I have a doctorate and three master's degrees, and I still find my brain swimming when I try to make it through some of the scientific info. After three or four months, I found I wasn't improving my times much, so I decided to give Daniels another go-round and bought the new edition. That pace, of course, would have been faster had I done just a 6k, so there is evidence in my experience that shows that this program works if you give it a chance. If you don't have one, go get one, either by signing up for a local 5k or going to a high school track and pushing yourself for a mile. And it has to be a decent effort on your part, not just a leisurely jogging time, otherwise this program will be useless to you. If you've been running but not necessarily pushing yourself hard, then start on Phase 2, page 180. Personally, I would recommend reading chapter four in which Daniels talks about each of these paces and what you're trying to accomplish with them, but it's not absolutely necessary for the training. Just be careful when you do so that you're not moving up too early--injuries and burnout can easily happen. Personally, I have read the whole book, and I'm glad I have, but I would recommend doing so after you have your running plan worked out."
"Excellent scientific background."
"It may not be "the" book for "a" beginning runner, but it is probably safe to add providing you are a runner - or have a goal to be a runner and improve in time to come. If you are more seasoned runner, and enjoy reading about running, you will love this book."
"This is a great book for those who like to run and write an intelligent running program."
"I love ready running books and books on training."
";-). After Daniels' spent decades researching running and coaching world-class athletes, he has explained his approach and training plans in this excellent book. I've ran for years by following plans from military trainers and the runnersworld site, then got this book after deciding that wasn't enough."
"This book does a very good job helping setup a training plan for your planning race distance, and provides good information on several aspects of running as well."
"Dr. Jack Daniels takes the guesswork out of what paces you should train at for each specific workout type."
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Best Rugby

Legacy
In Legacy , best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world's most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of New Zealand, to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business. Legacy is a unique, inspiring handbook for leaders in all fields, and asks: What are the secrets of success - sustained success? Read it.― Anton Oliver , former All Blacks captain If you read only one leadership book in your life, make it this one.
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"The book tells the story of a group of talented individuals that became an outstanding team."
"I want all my players to read this book and I am doing a book study with my assistant coaches on this book."
"I bought this book to see if it would be interesting for my son, as a high school athlete."
"One of my favorite leadership books!"
"Love the all black, always been my team of excellence,(being a kiwi and all) the chapters are easy to navigate and not a hard a read for beginners."
"Legacy is a great read on leadership theory written around what has worked for the winningest team in sports."
"An excellent review of how a little nation became the most dominant country in world rugby, with the greatest win ratio of any international sport."
"Outstanding expose of what make the All Blacks the world's most successful sports team."
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Best Volleyball

Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
Gary's lessons and David's writing provide examples of the importance of the mental game." Through forty accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes--many of whom he has worked with--you will learn the same techniques and exercises Mack uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." In Mind Gym , noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack teaches athletes the lessons he's learned about how the mind influences athletic performance as much as physical skill does, if not more so. Through forty accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes--many of whom he has worked with--Mack shares the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle."
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"Great book-easy to read and provides a lot of good insight into mental training and imagery."
"This is my go-to sports psychology book for encouragement."
"I have always tried to emphasize the importance of mental training to my athletes and clients."
"Great book."
"Actually, the book was recommended by one of my former athletes, a state champion."
"Reading Mind Gym helped me work through fears and insecurities that were holding me back from skiing at the best of my ability."
"Excellent book to get an athlete to consider the mental aspect of sport."
"Best book ever for mental strength on any sport and just all around confidence in life."
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