Find out how a sparsely-populated country came to dominate the world of endurance sports and get a blueprint for high performance.

Norway has long stacked the field with champions in sports like Nordic skiing and sailing, but a new generation of athletes has arrived on the endurance scene, smashing records and grabbing medals in running, cycling, and triathlon.

Sports journalist Brad Culp unpacks the rise of the Norwegian method and its meticulous scientific protocols, which upend long-held beliefs about training and performance.

With its rugged terrain and harsh weather, Norway has a way of hardening competitors for any test. Culp explores the how the Scandinavian culture imbues a unique biopsychosocial approach to performance. He also introduces the athletes, coaches, and scientists who are shaking up the world of endurance sports. Their secret? Plenty of volume at low intensity, punctuated with hard-fought double-threshold workouts, which seems to turn workhorses into winners--they know when to hold back and when to go all-out.

The Norwegian Method is a real-life story of how discipline and determination can be employed to overcome seemingly impossible odds and achieve breakthrough performances. Culp gives endurance athletes a blueprint of how to adapt their training to look more like that of Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Kristian Blummenfelt.

From conflict to connection: Discover the secret to overcoming communication roadblocks in your relationship.

Whether you're starting a new relationship, finding your way back from headaches and heartaches, or just want to deepen your connection, THIS BOOK will help equip and empower you.

Take the first step in transforming your relationship. Here you'll find helpful and empowering tips that will help you cultivate a stronger connection with your partner.

With strategies for understanding yourself and taking responsibility for how you show up, these valuable lessons will lead to an even better bond between you and your partner.

Here's what you'll discover inside this insightful guide:

● The importance of taking personal responsibility for emotions and behaviors in relationships.

● Practical tips and strategies for improving communication with your partner-without resorting to fighting and blaming.

● Guidance on how to resolve conflicts healthily and productively.

● Discover your communication style and adapt it for more effective communication with your partner.

● The value of empathy in building strong relationships and simple techniques for mastering it.

● The benefits of communicating with emotional intelligence and effective listening skills (and how to Level Up your skills in both).

● Foolproof strategies for building trust and safety in communication, managing expectations, and maintaining long-term, blame-free communication in your relationship.

And much more.

There's more to endurance performance than training. Best-selling author and coach Matt Fitzgerald gives athletes 25 practical lessons to unlock their true potential and master their sport.

Every athlete's pursuit of performance will eventually become a game of diminishing returns. Matt Fitzgerald invites endurance athletes to focus on mastery, and performance will follow.

The path to mastery goes well beyond an athlete's training program and stretches beyond the realm of sport. The end goal is for the athlete to realize their full potential, which will elevate their experience both in their sport and the rest of life.

Fitzgerald identifies five pillars of mastery:

Motivation: How You Feel
Learning: What to Do
Understanding: Why It Works
Individuation: How It Works for You
Challenge: How to Push Your Limits

Drawing lessons from sports, history, psychology, and science, Fitzgerald shakes up the traditional paradigm of athlete development with thought-provoking ideas and valuable practices. Chasing Mastery is a springboard for athletes of all ages and abilities to engage their true potential.

Table of Contents

I MOTIVATION
1 Love Wins
2 Die Running
3 Hard Fun
4 Everything Matters
5 Fear Not

II LEARNING
6 Best Practices
7 Consider the Source
8 Plan in Pencil
9 Deliberate Practice
10 Extended Health

III UNDERSTANDING
11 First Things First
12 But How Do You Feel?
13 Hurry Up and Wait
14 Keep It Simple, Stupid
15 Hot and Cold

IV INDIVIDUATION
16 Choose Your Adventure
17 Disrupt Complacency
18 Advance in a Different Direction
19 Train in Style
20 Be a Fox

V CHALLENGE
21 Keep It Real
22 Unsexy Restraint
23 Personal Best
24 What's Your Pebble?
25 More with Less

Amazing Me! is an inspiring journey that follows four young dreamers from different backgrounds, each discovering the boundless possibilities that await them. Through vibrant illustrations and empowering rhymes, readers will join these characters as they explore diverse careers, from being a court judge to a scientist, a filmmaker to a first responder, and beyond. This heartwarming book encourages kids to dream big, aim high, and embrace the amazing qualities that make them unique.

Perfect for young readers, Amazing Me! reminds every child that no goal is too big and no dream is out of reach. With each page, children are encouraged to believe in themselves, respect others, and celebrate their own unique paths, inspiring them to contribute positively to the world. Whether they aspire to be an artist, an actor, or a leader in their community, this story encourages all dreamers to believe in the power of their dreams-and to remember that they are truly amazing just as they are!

Bestselling author and coach Matt Fitzgerald explains how to train for and execute a perfect race. Master the art of pacing and run your next 5K, 10K, half-marathon, or marathon at your real limit.

Every runner knows pacing is critical. It can be the difference between a breakthrough workout and a backbreaker, between a PR and a DNF. In How to Run the Perfect Race, acclaimed running coach Matt Fitzgerald reveals how conventional training and device overdependence keep runners from accessing the full power of pacing.

With a mix of fascinating science and compelling stories from every corner of the sport, Fitzgerald demonstrates that pacing is the art of finding your real limit--running at a pace to finish the workout or cross the finish line completely out of gas. This quintessential running skill unlocks hidden potential and transforms the sport, enabling runners of all experience and ability levels to continually improve their race execution.

Training plans for 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon events will hone your pacing skill through improved body awareness, judgment, and toughness. Choose from four plans, novice to expert, for each race distance. How to Run the Perfect Race equips you mentally and physically to become a better runner, capable of knowing and executing your best effort on any given day.

The Adventures of Red & Blue is a comic book series relating to the adventures of two stick figures named Red and Blue. They will have many adventures such as this one with the General and The King.

Sam The Lasagna Lady(TM) uniquely uses one of this world's favorite entrée, Lasagna, to empower women to move forward from settling for a lower level of themselves by providing a framework for meaningful connection to self.
This short, quick guide allows women to move beyond low self-esteem and the bondage that has gripped them through toxic relationships and narcissistic holds. It also helps activate their faith to a new height while providing thoughts to ponder, scriptures, and Life Through The Lasagna Lens Perspective at the end of the chapter.
As a lasagna expert, Sam, The Lasagna Lady(TM), dynamically authors books through what she calls the Lasagna lens. From Life Through Lasagna Eyes: The Recipes for Life to Book Strategy Manual: Layering Book Writing Through Lasagna to He Cheated, Get The Hell Up, her perspective lens provides the reader with a new vision, hope, and a call to action. She is a chef and innovator who folds Lasagna into creativity beyond the entrée.

My Favorite Wardrobes lets children know the importance of being clothed every day with the Fruit Of The Spirit, which are Peace, Love, Joy, Patience, Gentleness, Faithfulness, Goodness, Self-Control, and Kindness (Galatians 5:22-23), and the importance of putting your Armor On! You have the Armor of God, which is the Breastplate of Righteousness, Helmet of Salvation, Belt of Truth, Shoes of the Gospel Peace, Sword of The Spirit, and Shield of Faith. (Ephesians 6:10-18) God gives us Armor to protect us from the enemy. He wants us to put on the Whole Armor of God from head to toe every day! Parents, please Study these scriptures with your children.

We are choosing to miss out on the best part of life. Our diversity. We are choosing our own evaporation, which is simply silly. We choose not to see beauty in individuality and uniqueness. We are choosing to erase
a colorful future. It makes you wonder what type of future humanity will have. The question is, which person can say that their race is perfect without murderers, thieves, rapists, liars, cheaters, swindlers, abusers, psychopaths, and all-around horrible people. None can say that they are perfect because we know that Assholes Come In All Colors.