When my dad had a heart attack it changed the course of his (and my families') life forever. Often the first one is called the 'warning' - change your lifestyle before it is too late. My dad was completely inactive before the attack and as part of his rehab he was told to exercise more and change his lifestyle. This was alien to him. Meanwhile my family scowered the internet for everything we could learn. This book saves you from all the searching, answers alll the questions and is reallly easy to understand, with simple cartoons and illustrations thta make this daunting time survivable and dare I say almost enjoyable.

If you or a member of your family has a cardiac event buy this book it is priceless.

It looks really simple and of a higher quality than many other cases out there but a warning the magnet clasp fell off mine in a day. You don't really need the magnet, I still use it without.

Pretty simple and organised in a logical order. The multiple coice test questions at the end of each chapter are a good idea but they would be more useful if 3 of the 4 options weren't silly. It is pretty short, you could get through it in a day if you had to and it is worth keeping to refer back to. All in all not a bad book to get up to speed with how to set up and keep a business legal.

The mix of psychology theory with real life rugby situations made this book the perfect insight in psychology and it's role within rugby. I particularly liked how it would simplistically explain things such as 'what is Mental Toughness' before showing you how as player you can build your own 'mental toughness' and then Jon Callard would explain how he'd used the courage of other players to build his own commitment.

I bought this book because I wanted a change from the cheesy kids books that I seem to end up reading every frickin night. Perhaps I expected too much but I kind've hoped the gruffalo type illustrations might get me to a have meaningful conversation with my kids about feeling gloomy. That didn't happen. Perhaps I should award the three stars to my lacklustre storytelling, but I'm blaming the book!

As someone that feels uneasy with the 'mental toughness' brigade and knows how difficult it can be to go from university to being a practitioner it is refreshing to read something that considers all that is wrong (or difficult) with being a psychologist on the field. A few bits you may find controversial - I personally liked it for these inclusions. It really fills a gap in the sport psychology market and I can't recommend it enough.

Stretching has always intrigued me. Karate lessons as a child would always incorporate stretching and I could definitely see and feel the difference for stretching, however I never really understood why. Following an injury and seeing this book by chance I gave it a shot. It does go someway to addressing this and some of the diagrams are great. Some I found weren't, particularly the clarity of the specific parts of muscles, overall it seemed a bit lacking - perhaps it's simplistic nature is it's selling point - for me it meant further reading around the subject was required, for which there are better more comprehensive books. It isn't a bad book, it is just OK.

I received the book a couple of weeks ago and just finished reading it.

The art of running faster is one of the few books that explained the principles of how to run and train rather than just explain the basic energy systems such as aerobic and anaerobic etc. Julian's reflection on his win in the English National Cross Country brought back memories both of his great win as well as the enormous depth of the fields in the 80's. This chapter alone created interesting conversations with my fellow running partners and coaches.
The core topics within the book were fantastically written with clear objectives of how runners should feel when trying to achieve new goals in sessions while at the same time explaining how sessions can clearly be effected by changes such as recovery or volume.
I am sure many experienced coaches will love this read and recommend it to their athletes.

Improvisation can be really difficult to teach, particularly on those days when your class seem devoid of inspiration. This book comes in to its own providing tasks and games which can be easily used in most settings to fire up your students.

Since getting this book I aways start each lesson with one the warm-up games and quite often turn to it mid session to kick start new ideas.

This is a great book to find out more and start using sport psychology. Whether you are a coach, player or simply an armchair sports fan this is a great book to get to grips with what sport psychology is and what sport psychologists do. I particularly liked the section on anxiety.

I often hear in my head the theme tune to Rocky (I know cheesy) when I think about psyching myself up for a game which made the chapter on the effect of music all the more compelling.