How Bad Do You Want It?

Willie Stewart! Becomes a one armed rugby player! Re-learns to swim and ride a bike! In the 80s! Ahhhhhhh! — whoops, that was my halfway point update. Now that I'm finished I can say THIS is my preferred mix of sport science studies, drama-filled race descriptions and athlete stories of triumph or tribulation. The psychobiological model is the hypothesis that what limits endurance athletes is our ability to deal with the perception of effort - how hard the work feels and how much we are willing to suffer for a particular goal. The chapters go through different mental tactics different athletes have used to give out more effort regardless of physical limitations (see the one-armed rugby player turned triathlete)