Best Rugby

1 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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Find Best Price at Amazon"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."

After being released from prison and winning South Africa’s first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. Carlin offers the final dramatic chapters of how then president Nelson Mandela and his wily strategy of using a sporting event—the Sprinkboks rugby team in the 1995 World Cup—to mend South Africa. After giving an informed capsule history of apartheid's bitter legacy and Mandela's noble stature as a leader, the scene is set for the influential rugby match between the solid New Zealand team and the scrappy South African squad in the finals of the World Cup, with 43 million blacks and whites awaiting the outcome. Realizing that his new government was on tenuous ground and could disintegrate at any moment, he sought a symbolic moment that would unite the black citizenry with white Afrikaners and hit upon the idea of South Africa hosting rugby’s first World Cup.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is the story of Nelson Mandela's rise to the presidency of South Africa, and the power of love (and rugby) to unite a nation. He succeeded because he chose to see good in people who ninety-nine people out of a hundred would have judged to have been beyond redemption...By appealing to and eliciting what was best in them, and in every single white South African watching the rugby game that day, he offered them the priceless gift of making them feel like better people, in some cases transforming them into heroes."
"This book is not really a story of rugby, as later portrayed in the Hollywood movie; it is a story of a country struggling with a massive and long-overdue change in the fabric of its society. Carlin had worked in South Africa and as such had background knowledge of the country as well as access to the many prominent figures that he interviewed for the book, including Mandela himself. As a side note, the poem "Invictus", for which the movie was titled, brilliantly captures the bravery of Mandela and all of South Africa shown in this book."
"I also struggled through the first part of the book with trying to keep straight the parties of the right and the left and what was what and who was who."
"It was a great way to explore the political shift in South Africa in the mid-90's without having to read a book that is written like a news article. The only thing I felt the book was lacking was a bit more background in some of the players on the team."
"Mandela understood that before a new country of South Africa could come into being, what was required was the creation of a population of South Africans, something that had not existed in the era of the Afrikaners and numerous fragmented tribal groups. Read this book to replenish your hope in human potential and possibilities."

3 Intermittent Fasting 101: A Simple Guide to Losing Fat, Building Muscle and Becoming an Alpha Male
So, if you want a stupidly simple way to lose fat, build muscle, increase your testosterone and feel like a new man then keep reading... - Rapid fat loss (without muscle loss or crazy dieting). - Spiked testosterone levels and human growth hormone production. - Ability to build lean, hard muscle. And that (along with the result it delivers) is one of the reasons it’s loved by celebrities such as Ben Affleck, Hugh Jackman, Beyonce and Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s easy to adopt and you don’t need to go on a crazy diet or change your lifestyle to get the results. So, if you want to build lean muscle, shred fat, feel incredible and get head-turning results. So, buy the book now, don’t hold off until tomorrow… separate yourself from the crowd and be the one who gets results.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is a great book to help you look the part."
"and this one covers a lot of what you'll find in those books."
"This book starts out with an explanation of Intermittent Fasting and explains it as a new way of eating versus a diet."
"In this book author Peter Paulson gives a thorough explanation of the "what's", "how's", and "why's" of this new approach to eating (basically cycling periods in which you eat with periods that you don’t eat)."
"I have looked at videos and the results of people doing this approach and they have all been about people who have 20 lbs or less to lose."
"Solid information, told concisely, and presented in a complete and orderly fashion works every time."
"I just stepped off the scale showing a loss of 11lbs in two weeks!"
"Today I bought a couple of books on the subject, and started my reading with Peter's book. I would recommend his book definitely to any beginner, like me!"
Best Cricket

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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Find Best Price at Amazon"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.""
Best Volleyball

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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Find Best Price at Amazon"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."
Best Lacrosse

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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Find Best Price at Amazon"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."
Best Track & Field

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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Find Best Price at Amazon"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."