4 books for athletes that you won’t immediately be able to tear yourself away from

When you read the right book, you want to conquer the world. That’s how the right literature works. We’ve chosen four books that came out recently but have already gained critical acclaim and their audiences.

“How badly do you want it? The psychology of mind over body superiority.”

The book is built on the stories of successful athletes, their mistakes and lessons learned. In his book, Mat Fitzgerald – one of the brightest authors of our time, an expert in the field of sports psychology, managed to collect a lot of examples from real life, demonstrating how the perception of effort and other psychological factors affect our results.

Stories from the lives of great athletes from a wide variety of sports are diluted with statistical data on fresh research on the subject.

“Beyond the Boundaries of Possible.”

The book is the autobiography of Nepal’s most famous mountaineer, Nirmal Purja. The former Gurkha and soldier of the elite Special Forces unit of the Royal British Navy completely turned the world of mountaineering, completing a program whose goal was to climb all eight-thousanders in one season in seven months.

The climber spent 177 days on all the ascents. As part of this program, he climbed Everest, Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Nangaparbat, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II, K2, Broad Peak, Cho Oyu, Manaslu and Shishabangma and was able to prove that human capabilities are truly limitless.

In the book, he talks about the hard road to his goal, the distrust of his surroundings and the support of his loved ones.

“Gateway to Hell. Seven and Four.”

In September, Russia published the first book in the upside-down format – “Gateway to Hell. Seven and Four.” Its author is a writer, sportsman and owner of a number of sports companies Oleg Samokhvalov. This book is a collection of works, where there is also sports prose. “Gate to Hell” turns out to be a sharp drama, in which the author shows the underside of the industry.

Pasha – a gifted swimmer, ready to pay any price to win the Olympics. On his way to the main peak in the life of an athlete stands young ambitious Sasha. Let the world collapse, the country fall to pieces, for Pasha and Sasha there is only one question: who at the Olympics in Los Angeles in August 2028 will touch the edge of the pool for a fraction of a second before others?

“That’s what the coach said. Funny and sad stories from the life of a coach who raised champions.”

This book consists entirely of memories of professional coaching life, students and their victorious performances, competition, work in the U.S., family and, of course, ice dancing. Natalia is an honored, experienced coach and believes that to win you have to be “two heads above” your competitors. This, in her opinion, is the only way to become the best in the profession in the world.

And yet sometimes, because of the subjectivity of referees, she had to overcome stress and move on. She wrote about all this in the book. “How could I not fulfill if the coach said so,” her former student once told Natalia Dubova. That’s how the title of the book came about.