Sport

The heroes of the Tour of Flanders and the Paris-Roubaix are tough and determined. The Flemings specialise in riding on bad roads and in bad weather. This set of photos provides an intimate and emotional portrait of these legendary athletes, landscapes and the Flemish culture by Stephan Vanfleteren

A comprehensive sports training manual that is suitable for dedicated strength and conditioning practitioners and athletes and coaches looking to expand their knowledge on how to develop and optimise human performance and athletic capacity. Each topic is addressed by a world renowned expert in a specific component of sports conditioning.

Guidebook to walking Japan's Kumano Kodo, a network of ancient pilgrimage trails on the Kii Peninsula, south of Osaka. Covering the Nakahechi, Kohechi and Iseji trails, as well as Koyasan and the Choishimichi route, the guide has all the practical information needed, along with notes on the routes' rich history and culture.

A rollicking comic treasury, starring the world's most famous cartoon horse. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and a surging presence on Instagram. Each day, he and his diverse group of friends share their mishaps, their successes, and their innermost thoughts with the world.

'Ferrazzi is breaking new ground in defining what leadership can mean in the emerging world of work' -Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global'Ferrazzi has gone into the trenches to figure out what it really takes to empower people and make teams more than the sum of their parts. This book will be a staple in every leader's library' -Adam Grant, host of the TED podcast WorkLife, bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals Long-listed for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2021 The world of work is changing at an unprecedented rate leaving many organisations struggling to cope. At a time when constant innovation, agility, and speed often mean the difference between success and failure, we can no longer afford to waste time navigating the complex bureaucracy present in most companies. The #1 New York Times bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi argues that in times like these the ability to lead without authority is the essential workplace competency. Leading Without Authority reveals the secret to getting those around you to collaborate and cooperate to reach their full potential, whatever your title. The answer involves a shift in mindset that Ferrazzi calls co-elevation - working to elevate those around us. And you don't have to have formal authority, or direct reports, to utilize the co-elevation process. In fact, you can take initial steps forward without the other person even being aware of your efforts.Drawing on a decade of research and over thirty years helping CEOs and senior leaders drive innovation and build high-performing teams Ferrazzi reveals how we can all transform our business and our relationships with the people around us. The result is a new roadmap for thriving amid the disruptive pressures afflicting every industry.

Dive into the refreshing world of 'Wild Swimming Walks Cornwall' by Matt Newbury. Published in 2021 by Wild Things Publishing Ltd, this book is a delightful journey into the heart of Cornwall's natural beauty. The author, an expert in his field, takes you on an exploration of the most stunning swimming spots in Cornwall. This book is a must-have for anyone with a love for the outdoors, swimming, or the Cornish coast. Its genre, a blend of travel, nature, and sport, makes it a unique read that will captivate your imagination. Discover the joy of wild swimming with this exceptional book from Wild Things Publishing Ltd.

Bleau Blocs: 100 of the finest boulder problems in the Fontainebleau Forest by Stephan Denys is a visual celebration of this unique and vast bouldering venue. Denys' photos span a range of eras and are accompanied by texts that expand on the context and characteristics of each boulder problem.

This book takes a look at the specific challenges faced by Adventure Sports Coaches It examines how to put theory into practice. Content accords with a range of recent academic research, and each chapter contains suggestions for further reading.

The autobiography of Extreme Enduro motorcycling legend Graham Jarvis

This pocket handbook to navigation will help you master the necessary map and compass skills for mountain walking. Chapters include map scales, symbols and contours, grid references, map reading, bearings, route planning and night and bad-weather navigation, as well as navigating with a GPS.

Guidebook to 70 walks on the Azores, a remote archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean. Most of the walks are easy or moderate, with a few graded difficult. The selection is spread across all nine islands, offering much variety, from easy village-to-village walks to remote and mountainous walks, including Portugal's highest mountain, Pico.

This book contains a collection of almost 200 of the best fly designs from world-class flats anglers and guides. Inside you'll discover how to tie them and how to fish them.

As Jack Nicklaus once observed, fear is the golfer s greatest enemy. It can turn you from a brilliant shot-maker on the practice range into an incompetent hack on the course. Most golfers understand this, but do not have the tools to overcome it. That s where pioneering sports psychologist Dr Gio Valiante comes in. Having studied the sources of an athlete s fear and its physiological and neurological impact on performance, he has developed a groundbreaking programme for conquering it.Emphasising the need to replace a fixation-on-results with a commitment to mastery of one s body and one's mind, Valiante s approach will help golfers reach their true potential. Through concrete confidence and mastery drills, he presents specific ways to break free of fear s grasp and perform at your best even under the most extreme pressure. Fearless Golf is the ultimate guide to the mental game.

A refreshed edition of a strong backlist seller, Desktop Basketball features a fresh new design and illustrations to bring it up to date with our current bestselling titles in our popular desktop sports series.

English football changed in the 1990s. For better, for worse - but mainly for better. The shirts and shorts got baggier and brighter. Exotic-named players were enticed from overseas. New stadiums were built in the wake of the Taylor Report. The Premier League emerged and England hosted its first international tournament since 1966. The era of 'New Labour' and 'Cool Britannia', it was also the decade English football went mainstream. When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler author Tom Whitworth travelled to English football's hotbeds - the cities of London, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle - to meet the people who lived through an era of change: the players and the managers, the owners and the fans. He looks back at key moments, the teams, the title races, the twists and turns, the characters and the rivalries. All from a decade when English football began to shrug off its bad-lad image - at least off the pitch - and move out of the darkness and into the light.

An inspirational journey into the heart of Japan and the search for a meaningful life.Out of work, out of love, drowning in debt, and lost in Japan. In an attempt to be happy, Todd Wassel sets out to walk the 750-mile, 88-temple Shikoku Henro pilgrimage.Sleeping outside, armed with only a Japanese map, Todd is helped along his way by a wandering ascetic hiding from the Freemasons; naked Yakuza trying to shake him down; a scam artist pilgrim; and a Buddhist monk who hates America but loves beef jerky.Can he find what he's looking for before the path, or his new friends, break him?

Today, yachts are often equipped with electrical windlasses, autopilot, bow thrusters, etc. This equipment has also become much more reliable, making it possible to make long offshore passages without much knowledge of seamanship. However, as the coastguards in many countries can confirm, more and more yachts require assistance, even when they should be able to reach harbour on their own. In this book you will be shown the traditional techniques you should be familiar with - regarding rope handling, manoeuvring and anchoring - in order to make long or short passages safely. Each element is clearly explained alongside detailed illustrations, combining to make a straightforward and easy-to-follow guide. Although yacht gear is becoming more and more reliable, you can be almost sure that, sooner or later, it will fail or you will be out of electrical power to use it. Learning the traditional techniques may not only be necessary but is also both interesting and fun. Instead of waking up the entire harbour in the early hours with the noise of your bow thruster, you may, alternatively, use a spring line to get safely moored to or leave the pontoon quietly.

Michael Wagg goes in search of hidden histories and footballing ghosts from before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He revisits the 14 clubs that made up the 1989 DDR-Oberliga, East Germany's top flight. This quirky account of his whistle-stop tour is for fans who know that football clubs are the beating hearts of the places they play for.

'One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.'Brian Clough's twenty years as Nottingham Forest manager were an unpredictable mixture of success, failure, fall-outs and alcoholism. Duncan Hamilton, initiated as a young journalist into the Brian Clough empire, was there to see it all. In this strikingly intimate biography - William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2007 - Hamilton paints a vivid portrait of one of football's greatest managers: from Nottingham Forest's double European Cup triumph to the torturous breakdown of relations at the club and Clough's descent into alcoholism.Sad, joyous and personal, Hamilton's account of life with Brian Clough is a touching tribute to a brilliant man.

Keep organized from January to December with the 2021 - 2025 5-Year Monthly Planner. It measures 8.5 x 11 inches, is available in hardcover, and provides:60 months of planning pagesTwo-page monthly spreads that include past month, current month, and future month calendar blocks for quick referenceEach square measures 1.5 x 1.8 inchesMade in the U.S.A.

With 156 detailed, full-color anatomical illustrations, Golf Anatomy, Second Edition, depicts 72 exercises proven to improve strength, power, and range of motion. Golfers will add distance to drives, consistency to the short game, and accuracy to putts.