Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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.

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.

I couldn't believe it; amazon came through again with delivering this fabulous book in less than four days (at a special discounted price)!
My faith continues to growth with amazon every day; thankyou amazon!!