TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hutchinson,Michael
TI  - Faster: the obsession, science, and luck behind the world's fastest cyclists 
SN  - 1408843757
AV  - GV1043.7 .H88 2014
U1  - 796.6019 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Cyclists
KW  - Nutrition
KW  - Physiology
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Bicycle racing
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Physiological aspects
N1  - Includes index; Introduction : An accidental athlete --; 1; Like a racehorse: the art of being an athlete --; 2; Blood, oxygen and muscle: the physiology of an athlete --; 3; 1,400 calories an hour: fuelling an athlete --; 4; 3.49.999: perfecting an athlete --; 5; A rider like a robot: the psychology of an athlete --; 6; Free speed: the technology --; 7; Talent and genetics --; Afterword: The never-ending search
N2  - For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right - it's the doing everything right that's hard. And that's what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchinson. With his usual deadpan delivery and an awareness that it's all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster - training, nutrition, the right psychology - and explains how they work, and how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower, and why, and how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar life-style corners. Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do, about what the riders, their coaches and the boffins get up to behind the scenes, and about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us
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