Hutchinson endurance book full#
Hutchinson endurance book pro#

My ambition was to be an academic lawyer, and by my mid-twenties that’s exactly what I was.

Hutchinson endurance book full#

Full disclosure, I was obviously going to like the book and him after reading this quote: I never meant for any of this to happen. Hutchinson starts with telling the reader a little about himself.

The physiology, the nutrition, the obsession with the minute details of the sport, the psychology of winning etc.

Hutchinson endurance book pro#

Ok more than 1.5 chapters but the main thing is that there is a lot that a pro cyclist has in common with professional athletes in other sports. Ostensibly about cycling, there is only one chapter specific to bicycling…ok one and half, and the rest is really about the type of obsession one needs to be a functioning high level pro athlete. Hutchinson explores what goes on in the minds of a pro athlete. 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.įaster 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.įaster was actually a fun book for athletic enthusiasts. 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. And that’s what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchinson. Winning just happens when you do everything right – it’s the doing everything right that’s hard. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related.