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Relentless

Secrets of the Sporting Elite

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In his quest to define ‘sporting greatness’, double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has spent nearly 4 years interviewing and training with some of the greatest minds in sport to discover what it takes to become – and remain – a champion.

Featuring:
Ian Botham • Mark Cavendish • Alastair Cook • Alex Danson • Richard Dunwoody • Donna Fraser • Chris Froome • Anna Hemmings • Denis Irwin • Michael Johnson • Kílian Jornet • Stuart Lancaster • AP McCoy • Ronnie O’Sullivan • Michael Owen • Adam Peaty • Ian Poulter • Paula Radcliffe • Ian Thorpe • Mark Webber • Shane Williams

From an early age Alistair Brownlee has been obsessed with being the very best, and not just improving his sporting performance across his three specialist triathlon disciplines of swimming, cycling and running, but also understanding how a winner becomes a dominant champion. Winning gold in consecutive Olympic Games has only strengthened this need and desire.

Over the last 4 years Alistair has been on a journey to learn from the best, talking to elite figures across multiple sports as well as leading thinkers and scientists, to understand what enabled these remarkable individuals to rise to the very top, and to push the limits of human capability in their relentless pursuit of perfection.

Alistair uses these fascinating interviews, along with extensive research, to explore a range of sports and environments – athletics, cycling, football, rugby, horseracing, hockey, cricket, golf, motor racing, snooker, swimming and ultra-running – to reveal how talent alone is never enough and how hard work, pain, pressure, stress, risk, focus, sacrifice, innovation, reinvention, passion, ruthlessness, luck, failure and even a lockdown can all play a crucial part in honing a winning mentality and achieving sustained success.

Neuroscience & Neuropsychology Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Sports Psychology Triathlon Sports Cycling Inspiring
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As he shares early on in the book, this isn't his story. More of a lost of stories from some of the worlds most iconic sports personalities. There are some epic personalities as well. Giving us more humans an outlook on what it took them to reach the levels of greatness. A real cracking listen

excellent book

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Fantastic book from a champion. Best book I’ve read on psychology of champions. Great read.

Fantastic book!

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I finished listening this book a couple of weeks ago and struggle remembering any takeaways. Alistair did get close access to some spectacular individuals but this did not translate into a nice story as the book sounded a bit like a recap of multiple podcasts. Nicely narrated by the author himself though.

Not memorable

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Elite triathlete Alistair interviews a huge range of elite performers, past and present. He finds out their mentality, motivations and musings. There’s a few F-bombs dropped in but it’s saying it as it is from the mouths of the gods of sport.

It makes you think, laugh out loud and realise they are all humans who thankfully for us the spectator took up a bat, steering wheel of whatever, and performed up the rarified air of the sporting gods.

Whether arm chair fan or athlete looking to find something to make you better, this is a must listen. Over and over and over.

11.5 out of 10.

Delve into the gods and learn bucketloads

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Loved this book. If you love sport, particularly as an energetic participant, it’s a great insight.
I enjoyed Alastair’s narration which made the presentation more authentic.

Great Effort Alistair

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