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Reading Around The Edges: Sports Science

Reading List

Psychology

Chimp Paradox

The champions mind

The pressure principle

Winning mindset

Thinking, fast and slow

Mindset

The 5 steps to a winning mindset

How bad do you want it?

 

The Brain

The brain – the story of you

Incognito: the secret lives of the brain

 

Genetics

The Sports Gene

Blueprint – How DNA makes us who we are

The Gene Machine

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

The Talent Code and The Culture Code

Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes

 

Recovery

Why we sleep

 

Nutrition

The Energy Plan

The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat

 

Miscellaneous

Bounce

Born to Run

The science of the Tour De France

Running science

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs by Tyler Hamilton

Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

Grit

The playmakers advantage

Peak: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sports

The strength and conditioning bible: How to train like an athlete

Unplugged

How to Eat Move and be Healthy

Never Let Go

The Talent Lab

Your life in my hands

When Breath becomes Air

Bad Science

Watching List

The Brain

Brain games

The Human Brain (science discovery documentary)

 

Drugs

Icarus

Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story

The war on Doping

 

Bodybuilding

Pumping Iron

Generation Iron

Bigger, Stronger, Faster

 

Sport

Tyson

When we were Kings

Hillsborough

Senna

Take the ball, pass the ball

Bobby Robson: More than a manager

Class of 92

All or Nothing Series

Premier Passions

A Sunday in Hell

Freedoms Fury

Olympia

Tokyo Olympiad

Red Army

 

Nutrition

Cooked

Supersize me

Food Inc

Fed Up

Take Your Pills

What the Health

 

Miscellaneous

Barkley Marathons

Hoop Dreams

Undefeated

Meru

The Summit

The epic of Everest

All or Nothing Series

Murderball

Fire in Babylon

Ford v Ferrari

50 Sport Films You Must See https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/52072024/page/3

 

Listening List

The Food Medic

Talent Equation

The High Performance Podcast

Flintoff, Savage and the ping pong guy

The school of greatness

Strength and conditioning journal podcast

Guru performance institute podcast

Youth athlete development podcast

The athlete development show

Pacey performance

Rugby strength coach

#24hourathlete

Player development project podcast

The Edge

The physical preparation podcast

Brendan Chaplin’s Podcast

Historic performance

The model health show

Sigma Nutrition

StatsBomb

Football Weekly

Men in Blazers

The Cricket Badger

The Analyst

The Bowlogy Report

Tailenders

House of Rugby

Coaching Weekly

Training Ground Guru

Full Contact

Rugby Tonight Podcast

House of Rugby

Why they Win

We do Sceince

Athlete Development

Experts in Sport Podcast

The Sports Psych Show

Central VA Sport Performance Podcast

FX Medicine

Research in Coaching and Human Performance

Player Development Project Podcast

Rugby Strength Coach

That Peter Crouch Podcast

Athletic Evolution

The Magic Academy

The Model Health Show

The Rugby Coach’s Corner

ESPN: 30 for 30

Sport Life Stories

Boxing Life Stories

Sport and the British

NHS Strength and Flexibility

Crime in Sport

The Bill Simmons Podcast

Talk Sport

NSCA Coaching podcast

Be Legendary podcast

Finding Mastery - Michael Gervais (sports psychology)

Daily Stoic

Be Ready Training Podcast

Average to Elite Podcast

Football Fitness Federation

School of Calisthenics

Snippet Sport Science

Supporting Champions

The Athletic Evolution

The Dan John Podcast

The Perception and Action Podcast

The Science of Sport podcast

The Psychology Podcast

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