Athlete Unleashed

Back Cover We all have two roads upon which we can choose. The first road is to allow our limiting beliefs such as fear, anger, and doubt to shackle us and hinder our ability to achieve our true desires in life. Athlete Unleashed helps you navigate the second road, which allows you to break free from those shackles, find your passion, and gives you the steps to unleash your best inner athlete! Back when I was a high school baseball player, guidance and strength training for high school sports was not too advanced. The unfortunate truth is that for current athletes, the training practices have not advanced much. Current training practices are little better than general run-of-the-mill fitness for most of our athletes, and they deserve better. They deserve a program that allows them the chance to compete at the highest level they desire, while achieving peak health and fitness. Whether you are attempting to make the team, or you are ready to achieve your next level of athletics, this is the book for you. Athlete Unleashed helps guide you to find your passion while guiding you in addressing the key components to become more successful. These components include developing the proper mindset, balancing your work effort with the appropriate recovery, specific nourishment for your needs, the right movement for your success, the steps for injury prevention, recovery from injury, and the planning for your season—as well as your future!

Neeraj Chopra is a name that will forever be etched in Indian sports history. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics his throw of 87.58 meters, which made him earn a Gold Medal, captured the imagination of over a billion Indians and brought Javelin Throw into the spotlight. However, his story traces back to much simpler beginnings. This book transports readers to Neeraj’s childhood in Khandra, Panipat, where the 13-year-old was an overweight teenager more interested in losing weight than modern sports. Weighing around 75 kilos, he became the butt of jokes, leading his family to enroll him at the local stadium to get active. It was here that Neeraj’s life changed forever. Introduced to javelin throw by older athletes, he instantly revealed a prodigious talent that left everyone stunned. What began as merely a way to get fit ignited an unexpected passion that he obsessively pursued with intense training and sacrifice. This book details the struggles of lacking resources, battling years of injuries and facing skepticism from society about his choice of sport. But Neeraj’s determination and work ethic helped him overcome every obstacle to etch his name in history.

A group of Christie buffs. . .In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne is chilling and the happy guests begin arriving on Broward's Rock Island, Annie feels a niggling sense of doom. But the last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include a real-life murder. The unexpected arrival of Neil Bledsoe, the most despised book critic in America, was sure to raise a few hackles. An advocate of hard-boiled detection and gory true crime, Bledsoe drops a bombshell on the devoted Christie assemblage: He's penning a scurrilous biography of the grand dame of suspense herself. Before the first title clue is solved, no less than two attempts are made on Bledsoe's life. Now Annie and her unflappable husband, Max Darling, find themselves trying to stop a murder in the making-only the first corpse isn't the one they're expecting. . .and it isn't the last.

Background information, tips, and strategies for coaches, parents, and others who work with athletes affected by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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