Freestyle (book) – damaged copy

Maximise your performance in sport and everyday life with four fundamental movements What’s the best way to improve physical performance? The fitness industry offers countless methods that claim to do just that, but none can serve as a one-size-fits-all solution for everyone. With ‘Freestyle’, former professional gymnast and current CrossFit athlete Carl Paoli presents a fully customisable programme that can be adapted to a wide variety of fitness goals. Readers learn interactively how their bodies move in three-dimensional space and cope in changing environments. Armed with this knowledge and just four basic movements, each linked to specific purposes, Paoli helps trainees maximise their performance in everyday life and in any sport. Freestyle is a practical handbook for further developing our universal human movement patterns, regardless of any specific sporting discipline. It fosters a new awareness of human movement, as well as the ability to personalise any training programme to make it work for one’s own goals. About the authors: Carl Paoli was a professional artistic gymnast. In Spain, he was among the country’s elite for 15 years and won numerous awards, including the gold medal in the vault at the national championships. He studied environmental sciences and initially worked as a marine biologist. Since 2004, he has been working as a coach in San Francisco, collaborating with San Francisco CrossFit and AcroSports. In 2010, he founded the website GymnasticsWOD.com, currently the largest online portal for training gymnastics movements for CrossFit coaches and athletes. In 2011, he was part of the coaching team for Annie Thorisdottir, who in 2011 and 2012 became the first female CrossFitter to win the CrossFit Games twice in a row. Anthony Sherbondy studied and obtained a PhD in engineering and neuroscience at Stanford University and is the author of numerous scientific articles. He practises Capoeira.

This is a book about extremes. Written by someone who has lived his profession to the extreme.It is a book about the self you need to be successful. And the self you need to be able to cope with success. It is a book about the self you need to be a team player. And about the self you need to be able to cope with defeats and overcome disappointments, both in your professional and private life. In this book, Oliver Kahn shows us that he is much more than the images of him would suggest. That he is even tougher than one might realise, but also that he is far more level-headed, thoughtful and even gentler than any picture could ever convey. In this book, he explains to us everything that goes into ‘Kahn-style’ success. Above all, however, he tells us where success comes from: namely, from within.About the authorOliver Kahn is not the straightforward, successful man he is generally taken to be. He is not the prodigy whose path to becoming the world’s best goalkeeper was predestined. Oliver Kahn was born in Karlsruhe in 1969. In 1975, he began his football career at Karlsruher SC, where his father, Rolf Kahn, and his brother, Axel Kahn, also played as professional footballers. In 1987, he made his Bundesliga debut for Karlsruher SC. In 1994, he moved to Germany’s record champions, FC Bayern Munich. This move became the most expensive goalkeeper transfer in Bundesliga history. He went on to become one of the most successful German professional footballers of all time and the most successful German goalkeeper of all time: seven-time German champion, six-time DFB-Pokal winner, and in 2001, winner of the Champions League, the highest honour in European club football. During his professional career, he played in 864 competitive matches, including 554 Bundesliga matches, 424 for FC Bayern Munich, 86 matches as goalkeeper for the German national team and 141 matches in the European Cup and the Champions League. He was named World Goalkeeper of the Year three times. In 2002, he was named best player and best goalkeeper at the World Cup in Japan. He received countless other prizes and honours for his outstanding sporting achievements and exceptional personal qualities, including for his team spirit and exemplary conduct during the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In the summer of 2008, in his 22nd year as a professional footballer, he brought an unprecedented career to a close. Read an extract