The Unconventional Running Coach

My Score : 9/10 Coverage : Mental Training  TLDR : A great book that is easy to follow and has a companion book to help you work through the exercises in the book. My second my used book on mental training behind confident mind.  In this book, Kamphoff reveals the ten practices that the world’s best use to gain the high performance edge. She shares the tools and strategies she’s taught executives, entrepreneurs, NFL ProBowl athletes, Olympians, college athletes, and championship teams. Based on almost twenty years of research and consulting with the world’s best, she provides a practical, inspiring, and easy-to-use guide to radically accelerating your performance and improving your happiness. I do have the audio version and have the paper version of the exercise book on the way, I am hoping this makes is easier to implement. There are also some resources on her website which are provided for free. The book provides practical strategies to implement her practices into your life...

My Score:  6/10 (remove the nutrition junk and maybe would get an extra point or two)  Coverage : Training, mindset, nutrition TLDR : Tries to be a jack of all but ends up being the master of none.  It is really hard to review training books without going into too much detail on their plans etc. But I will do my best... (note I have the audiobook version) I really enjoyed the opening part of this book, the sections on mindset had a lot of useful take aways and helped lead me towards more mental training with books like the confident mind and Beyond Grit. It covers in some detail base training, speed work, tapering and discusses the approach of many elite athletes,  such as Emil Zátopek, Roger Bannister,   Eliud Kipchoge , Jim Ryun, Steve Prefontaine, Joan Benoit, Usain Bolt and Haile Gerbrselassie. Overall the book is well worth a read, especially if you can get it second hand. Honestly though if you want mindset stuff you are better off reading a confident mind...