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How Bad Do You Want It?
- Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
- Narrated by: Matt Fitzgerald
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Categories: Sports & Outdoors
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Publisher's Summary
The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have known this for decades, and now science is learning why it's true. In his fascinating new book, How Bad Do You Want It?, coach Matt Fitzgerald examines more than a dozen pivotal races to discover the surprising ways elite athletes strengthen their mental toughness.
Fitzgerald puts you into the pulse-pounding action of more than a dozen epic races from running, cycling, triathlon, XTERRA, and rowing with thrilling race reports and revealing postrace interviews with the elites. Their own words reinforce what the research has found: Strong mental fitness lets us approach our true physical limits, giving us an edge over physically stronger competitors. Each chapter explores the how and why of an elite athlete's transformative moment, revealing powerful new psychobiological principles you can practice to flex your own mental fitness.
The new psychobiological model of endurance performance shows that the most important question in endurance sports is: How bad do you want it? Fitzgerald's fascinating book will forever change how you answer this question and show you how to master the psychology of mind over muscle. These lessons will help you push back your limits and uncover your full potential.
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- T. Bowman
- 04-03-2020
An excellent book about sports psychology
Great advice and insights for all levels of athletes, told by using stories. Highly recommended.
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- Zahin
- 29-11-2017
Great motivator.
Good insight. Enjoyable listen. Trippled my best in the pool after listening to the first few chapters. Lessons derived from real examples.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-10-2019
Fascinating
I couldn’t stop listening and I think I’ll replay this immediately. Fascinating insight into endurance athletes’ psychology and brilliant storytelling.
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- Oliver Brinkmann
- 18-05-2019
Too many irrelevant facts
As always, every book has some good chapters and so does this one too. However, there are extremely long passages of mere storytelling that leave you lost. For example the part where the Chicago marathon is described. Sure I understand that how the race unfolded it takes a lot of mental Toughness. But why do I have to listen to a lengthy description of the race in the style of a radio reporter providing every detail. Far too many facts, dates, times, and scientific information. Didn't get much out of the book and stopped one third through.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-05-2019
Amazing
Full of insights while also interesting and captivating through his athlete profiles. Will read it again.
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- Rod
- 05-04-2016
Great inside it's worth the listen
A number of people have commented that the performance is terrible. I've listened to a lot books on audible and there are other books that I haven't been able to finish listening to because the narrator was so terrible. This is not one of those books. Clearly the author is not Charlston Heston but his voice narration doesn't detract from the outstanding and inspiring message of the book. The benefits of listening to the book far outweigh any deficiency in the narration.
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- Pedro Pernia
- 19-02-2017
Great but....
The information was great and the compilation of the stories was incredible, but the narrative was a strong monotone, with no changes in emotion. My suggestion is to have someone else do it, or get a narrative coach... At the end I loved the book...
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- Mama D
- 14-03-2016
Great information, horrible delivery
If you could sum up How Bad Do You Want It? in three words, what would they be?
Great information, but the author really should have hired a professional narrator. Instead of a relaxed conversational tone, every sentence is barked out in drill-instructor fashion. Exhausting and unpleasant to listen to.
34 people found this helpful
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- fifth
- 08-07-2016
Analytical, but a bit too much so.
I liked the book. The audio is clear and very easy to understand. The material in some spots gets boringly analytical and I found myself spacing off. If it had shorter stories about each athlete, and a more personal and emotional connection to them, I think it would've been better. So I liked it, but can't whole heatedly recommend it, unless you really geek out on psychology.
7 people found this helpful
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- andrea
- 09-11-2016
Great book
This book, the philosophy it presents, as well as the narrated stories are second to none. The only thing that made it hard for me to follow was the narration. Even though it is the author himself, it is not the ideal voice from my point of view.
6 people found this helpful
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- Peter Rode
- 15-03-2016
Average book but drawn out
Narration felt like a long lecture. The book would have been much better with a better narration. Still, a couple good chapters ended up being drawn out far too long.
8 people found this helpful
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- Kate S
- 07-01-2017
Inspiring & motivating read
Even though the book specifically discusses the psychology behind the athlete's mindset, this can be applied to any scenario where you want to achieve to your highest potential.
Packed fully with scientific research and written in a way I felt I was at breaking point on the Tour de France, or collapsing in KONA, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to take their goals to the next level.
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- Jim
- 06-09-2017
A series of barely linked anecdotes
Would you try another book from Matt Fitzgerald and/or Matt Fitzgerald?
No
Would you ever listen to anything by Matt Fitzgerald again?
No. Matt’s voice cracks. It becomes increasingly more difficult to listen to as the book roils on.
How could the performance have been better?
Fewer stories, fewer details on the stories. Color of shirt? Number of burgers? Shade of sand? None of these added to the quality, they worked to fill the story.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
It has those inspirational stories about others who have faced more challenges than most of us listening to the book ever will
Any additional comments?
Skip this one
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- Daniel Gifford
- 19-07-2020
Incredible value for all humans.
The techniques, stories and information in this book have taken my athletic career from amateur to a professional who is 3rd in the USA. It has also taken the company I started from 40 monthly clients to 200+. Endless applicability.
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- Yasuke
- 25-02-2019
Mr. Matt Fitzgerald do to yourself a huge favor. Do not read any of your books ever again, please!
I always finished no matter what, but I couldn’t do it wit this one. The author doesn’t deserve even not a start in performance. Good histories but horrible performance!
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- RabbitLemon
- 19-07-2018
Well revealed
very good listening for any athlete and amateur with aspiration. can be applied to many parts of our lives. Using well explained examples of different aspects of mostly mental stumbling blocks that, once overcome or understood, enable us to perform so amazingly. If this is the age of neuroscience intelligence, this is great place to start
5 people found this helpful
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- Alexander
- 27-10-2016
Methods through story's.
The book is an unreal lesson on mental toughness through the story's of others and their lives.
Bare with the first chapter, then get stuck into the awesomeness of the book!!
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- RLS
- 07-06-2016
The author loses his purpose
It felt like the author forgot what he was meant to be writing about and he pronounces things incorrectly with the leading example being his pronunciation of Gloucestershire. How hard is it to research the correct pronunciation of place names?
The "teachable moments" were not particularly relevant or well explained for the amateur athlete. This felt more like a collection of uninspiring anecdotes and some of the athletes were poorly chosen.
Much better books are The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters or a much more practical and helpful book is The Ultra Mindset by Travis Macey.
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- james abel
- 13-12-2016
The Greatest audio book for sports people
The narrator wasn't great but the book was gripping so, that didn't really matter. Fantastic
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- LisaMarie
- 25-10-2016
Good but I spaced a lot!
Liked the stories of individual athletes told in an engaging way. Perhaps over dramatises the events somewhat in order to make it exciting to the reader but comes across as trying too hard sometimes or too much describing the even rather than just getting on with it. Found myself spacing out a bit too much with this audio book & no idea what was being said & having to rewind.
However it was a good listen & quite motivational for all walks of life & levels of fitness.
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- Hank Morris
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Great subject matter, but trite and monotonous
The very interesting core ideas are drowned in a banal narration of marginally relevant details, often using unnecessarily flowery language.
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- James hall
- 30-11-2020
Was ok
Lots of short story's about inspiring athletes. Wish I just listened to the last chapter. If you need inspiring this book is for you. If you need help with your mental thoughness id just listen to the end
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- Phillip
- 16-10-2020
Brilliant
I loved this book, it was so encouraging, great examples that age and disabilities don't mean much if you are determined :) Narrated by the author Matt Fitzgerald who did a stunning job :)
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- Jason Kehoe
- 16-04-2020
Enjoyed it, good examples and focus points
I don't think authors should narrate their work unless they are natural entertainers. Varied tone, pitch, rhythm and laboring the important points would have brought the story a new lease of life.
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- Ross Howard
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inspiring for runners.
generally enjoyed it. Gave a good insight into mental strength and different ways to motivate yourself. Also some background into some famous athletes.
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