Relentless

Secrets of the Sporting Elite

By: Alistair Brownlee

In his quest to define ‘sporting greatness’, double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has spent nearly 4 years interviewing and training with some of the greatest minds in sport to discover what it takes to become – and remain – a champion.

Featuring:
Ian Botham • Mark Cavendish • Alastair Cook • Alex Danson • Richard Dunwoody • Donna Fraser • Chris Froome • Anna Hemmings • Denis Irwin • Michael Johnson • Kílian Jornet • Stuart Lancaster • AP McCoy • Ronnie O’Sullivan • Michael Owen • Adam Peaty • Ian Poulter • Paula Radcliffe • Ian Thorpe • Mark Webber • Shane Williams

From an early age Alistair Brownlee has been obsessed with being the very best, and not just improving his sporting performance across his three specialist triathlon disciplines of swimming, cycling and running, but also understanding how a winner becomes a dominant champion. Winning gold in consecutive Olympic Games has only strengthened this need and desire.

Over the last 4 years Alistair has been on a journey to learn from the best, talking to elite figures across multiple sports as well as leading thinkers and scientists, to understand what enabled these remarkable individuals to rise to the very top, and to push the limits of human capability in their relentless pursuit of perfection.

Alistair uses these fascinating interviews, along with extensive research, to explore a range of sports and environments – athletics, cycling, football, rugby, horseracing, hockey, cricket, golf, motor racing, snooker, swimming and ultra-running – to reveal how talent alone is never enough and how hard work, pain, pressure, stress, risk, focus, sacrifice, innovation, reinvention, passion, ruthlessness, luck, failure and even a lockdown can all play a crucial part in honing a winning mentality and achieving sustained success.

Could Be Better

This book is good. The problem is it should have been a lot better. Half of it is one that anyone could have written and covers basic biographical information on athletes you probably don't care about. He had the ability to get some real personal information, but for the most part, he did not.

Great Book

Just finished listening to this book for a second time. Definitely one of my favorite books. Very interesting with great insight with a lot to learn from top level athletes.

🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅 What's With The Bad Reviews?!!

If you wanna know what it takes to be the best here it is! 👍

Good book, annoying narrator!

The book has some good information. I wish the author used a professional to read it. Every few minutes he would pause and say “BOT”.

Pick the narrator carefully.

Unlike read books, audobooks take more than the story itself. Nothing destroys a great book like the sound of robotic narrator. Unfortunately I couldn't push past chapter 1.