Published by: St Martins Pr; 1st U.S. ed edition (January 1991)
ISBN-10: 0312048777
Summary Elite coach Charlie Francis shares the concepts that have made his athletes successful. He takes us from his own sprint career through coaching his athletes to the Seoul Olympics. Fascinating, inspiring, and full of valuable training concepts, it is the best book on track I have ever read.
Published by: Distributed by Sterling Pub. Co; 1st ed edition (1983)
ISBN-10: 0715808427
Summary: Alan Well’s wife outlines the program that took Alan Wells from an 11.0h sprinter in his early 20s to Olympic champ by eliminating weights and replacing them with maximum calisthenics.
Long since “lost” this book by loaning it to some bastard.
Winner Stakes All - Lynn Davies
Tracks the life of this long jumper from Wales during the 1960s and his interesting experiences on the way to being the shock winner of the 1964 Olympic gold medal in beating record-breakers Igor Ter-Ovanesyan and Ralph Boston, then his exhaustive preparations for his title defence in 1968 in Mexico where he - like the rest of the field - were shattered by Bob Beamon’s other-world winning leap.
The coach-athlete connection, the triumphs and disasters of being an athlete are revealed in all their drama. I found it an excellent and inciteful read.
Similiar one for me David Hemery’s auobiography upto and including Munich 72. I also made the mistake of loaning it. Can’t remember its title but a very good insight into the preparation and competing in 2 Olympics.
The most insightful book I have read is Dave Hemerys book. He shows his logs from 68 and 72. It’s the only book I have seen where the athlete shows you what he is doing on a day to day basis,from start to finish. I recommend it to any coach or athlete.
Another very interesting read was the book put out by Mary Peters and her career culminating in the olympic gold in 72. She trained under very tough conditions. Her coach actually came from a weight lifting background.
