Description: Develop your fitness, strength and endurance, and improve your flexibility and agility, to deliver your best consistently on the race course. Hiking, trapezing and board sports are covered, as well as body weight, nutrition, training programmes, recovery and injury prevention. This is backed up with over 100 clearly demonstrated exercises.
Brief description: Michael Blackburn is a world champion sailor, Olympic medallist and coach to multiple gold medallists who has spent his career exploring what drives better sailing, smarter training and performance under pressure. Alongside his racing career, he pursued formal research into sailing performance, completing an Honours project on Laser (now ILCA) hiking before earning a PhD examining thought styles and endurance under pressure. He is currently Technical Director of the Australian Sailing Team.
Review Quotes: "What you will find is a grounded, experience-driven perspective on how to train better, recover smarter and build something that lasts. This has been clearly proven in the sailing world by the legacy that Michael has built and left in the Laser / ILCA class with the Australian Squad since 2008. If you're serious about your training, this book will meet you where you are and push you further." (Matt Wearn, Double Olympic Gold Medallist)