With January under our belts, and all the expectations that come with a new year. Here at TEC, the team is settling into 2022 with a focus not only on moving our bodies but of course the mind. With the help of our coaches and ambassadors, we have put together a reading list for you to keep your mind sharp throughout the year.
1. Running Rewired by Jay Dicharry
Recommended by Coach Alana:
RUNNING REWIRED: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed lays out a program for runners to become stronger, faster, and more resistant to injury.
The book distills cutting-edge biomechanical research into 15 simple workouts any runner can slot into their existing training program and begin seeing results.
Running Rewired will show how you can rewire your body-brain movement patterns to build these skills and transform your running within one season. My 15 “rewire workouts” in the book will amplify any running training plan—from 5K to ultramarathon—to build the stability, strength, and speed you need.
Just three, 20-minute rewire workouts per week will unlock performance you’ve never tapped before. Try Running Rewired to overcome injuries, break out of performance slumps, and renew your passion for racing.
2. Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
Recommended by Coach Anna:
Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and walk through a new framework for cultivating meaningful connection. This is for the mapmakers and travelers in all of us.
3. Will by Will Smith with Mark Manson
Recommended by Coach Carson:
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the worlds of music and film that anyone has ever had.
This memoir is the product of a profound journey of self-knowledge, a reckoning with all that your will can get you and all that it can leave behind. Written with the help of Mark Manson, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Will is the story of how one person mastered his own emotions, written in a way that can help everyone else do the same. Few of us will know the pressure of performing on the world’s biggest stages for the highest of stakes, but we can all understand that the fuel that works for one stage of our journey might have to be changed if we want to make it all the way home. The combination of genuine wisdom of universal value and a life story that is preposterously entertaining, even astonishing, puts Will the book, like its author, in a category by itself.
4. Strong is the New Beautiful by Lindsey Vonn with Sarah Toland
Recommended by TEC Ambassador Jody Bartz:
Lessons in strength, fitness, food, and attitude from the popular world champion skier and beauty icon—Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.
Olympic Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn wants women to stop thinking about “losing weight fast,” and instead focus on loving their bodies for what they are and what they can do. Lindsey is a small-town Minnesota girl at heart turned world-champion skier, but that didn’t come without hard work. In Strong Is the New Beautiful, Lindsey lays out the never-before-seen training routines and the overall philosophy that have helped her become the best female skier in the world—tailored for women of all shapes and sizes. Lindsey backs up her fitness program with advice on what to eat and how to work out, and kicks readers into high gear, helping bolster their self-confidence and build a better body image, with the tips and tricks she’s learned as a pro.
5. Endure by Alex Hutchinson
TEC Team Pick:
Discover the revolutionary account of the science and psychology of endurance, revealing the secrets of reaching the hidden extra potential within us all.
The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every field. But what if we all can go farther, push harder, and achieve more than we think we’re capable of?
Blending cutting-edge science and gripping storytelling in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell—who contributes the book’s foreword—award-winning journalist Alex Hutchinson reveals that a wave of paradigm-altering research over the past decade suggests the seemingly physical barriers you encounter as set as much by your brain as by your body. This means the mind is the new frontier of endurance—and that the horizons of performance are much more elastic than we once thought.
