Review: Sports stars and their coaches get candid about the habits and qualities that separate the elite from the journeymen jocks in sportswriter Sally Jenkins's beguiling book 'The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life'
At the Beijing games of 2008, swimmer Michael Phelps was determined to break Mark Spitz’s nearly four-decade-old record of seven gold medals in a single Olympics.
For 20 years, Phelps had swum five miles of laps a day, six or seven days a week , to condition his body and “automate” his form. He won his record-tying race, the 100-meter butterfly, by reflexively making a “chop” move to touch the pool wall 0.01 seconds ahead of the closest contender.Continue reading your article with
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