The Athlete's Way: Training Your Mind and Body to Experience the Joy of Exercise [Paperback]

Christopher Bergland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 10, 2008

"The Athlete's Way is amazingly informative and complete with a program to get and keep you off the couch. Bravo, for another exercising zealot who has written a book that should be read on your elliptical or stationary bike. He pushed me to go farther on a sleepy Sunday."

- John J. Ratey, M.D., author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science in Exercise and the Brain, and co-author of Driven to Distraction

 

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (June 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312355874
• ISBN-13: 978-0312355876
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Motivator, January 12, 2011

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Leslie - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Athlete's Way: Training Your Mind and Body to Experience the Joy of Exercise (Kindle Edition)

I was looking for something more than the usual motivational cheerleader-type book. I bought the physical (not digital) book about 9 months ago and loved it!! I have reread several chapters for motivation since. I now have a Kindle and am seriously considering paying the $9.99 for the Kindle version to read it again. Oh, and I bought the book for my athletic son who is a Sergeant in the US Army.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!, January 7, 2009

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Bassam C. Karim (Vienna, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Athlete's Way: Training Your Mind and Body to Experience the Joy of Exercise (Paperback)

I picked up this book at the library and so far this is a awesome book! Very motivating to make you want to exercise and work up a good sweat! I am sure others will rate it 5 stars as well.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars No gas shortage here!, November 16, 2009

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Kevin Quinley "GeezerJock" (Fairfax, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Athlete's Way: Training Your Mind and Body to Experience the Joy of Exercise (Paperback)

Author/athlete Christopher Bergland lets it all hang out in his exhaustive and exhausting book, "The Athlete's Way." By now, everyone knows the benefits of exercise and working out, but I do not know if we need 340+ pages to deliver that message. Berglund relates in his book that his initial draft weighed in at 1,000 pages. Needless to say, he had to cut some.

He should have cut more.

I get it. We get. Exercise is good. Fitness is good.

Dude, it's just a workout though!

Bergland rhapsodizes on the experience a transcendental if not orgiastic state. His approach is for me a bit over-the-top and his use of quotations sprinkled throughout the book and almost on every page becomes an eyesore and distraction.

Your mileage may vary, but I found this book at times annoying and overreaching. The essential message is good, but it is overdone and beaten to death.