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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements by Tim Noakes
Author’s Note by Michael Vlismas
Abbreviations
Part One: Looking for The Mountains
1 | The Sanctity of the Run
2 | Finding my Design
‘Mickey Mouse’ medicine
An upbringing in courage and independence
‘Ah, but it’s good to be alive’
3 | Deciding on a Career
My life’s work begins
Exercising the mind
Tackling the dogma
My greatest influences
4 | The History of Sports Science
Our Olympic ancestors
The first steroids and amphetamines
Sport and war
5 | The Role of the Doctor
The courage to expose the truth
Figure 1
Part Two: Waterlogged
6 | A Global Obsession
Born to run
Evolutionary edge no. 1 – bipedalism
Evolutionary edge no. 2 – sweat
Evolutionary edge no. 3 – no fur
Evolutionary edge no. 4 – a brain that protects us from heat injury
Humans are humans because we are designed to run in the heat
7 | The Science of Hydration
The ‘science’ behind a deadly new disease – the novel ‘Science of Hydration’
The ABC of EAH
The dehydration myth
Figure 2
What some of the greatest athletes have taught me about drinking
Figure 3
8 | The Running Boom
Dr Cade’s new wonder drink
Why Cade’s ‘science’ was flawed
The mafia of science
Gatorade funding of the ACSM
Figure 4
Figure 5
The special role of the US Military in the overdrinking saga
9 | The Growth of EAH as a Global Phenomenon
Figure 6
Figure 7
Figure 8
Figure 9
Figure 10
Discovering more fake diseases
A light from darkest Africa
The zero per cent dehydration rule
The final answers
Part Three: Nutrition 101
10 | The Facts They Don’t Want You to Know
Against the grains
The importance of William Banting and Gary Taubes
Figure 11
11 | The Key Rules of Nutrition
Rule 1
Rule 2
Rule 3
Rule 4
Rule 5
Figure 12
Rule 6
Rule 7
Rule 8
Rule 9
Rule 10
12 | Welcome to the CR Family
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Step 9
Part Four: Tackling The Risk in Rugby
13 | A Battle to Make Rugby Safer
From village greens to public schools
The language of injury
The age of the player
The level of play
Match play
The playing position
The phase of play
The time of season
The permanent paralysis myth
Corect treatment for serious neck injuries
The fight for rugby’s soul
14 | An Unhealthy Obsession
Figure 13
Rugby’s global injury crisis
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Figure 14
Australia
Figure 15
South Africa: My battles with Doc Craven
Figure 16
Morné du Plessis and the Chris Burger/Petro Jackson Players Fund
15 | The Recent Rise of South African Rugby
Developing humble rugby players
World Cup wonder – lesons from 1995 and 2007
After the 1995 Rugby World Cup
‘Bent’ science and the 2011 Rugby World Cup
Figure 17
Figure 18
Figure 19
My letter to the 2011 Rugby World Cup Springboks
The 2011 Rugby World Cup quarter-final match between the Springboks and Australia
Lesons from the 2011 Rugby World Cup
Could the Springboks have won the 2011 Rugby World Cup?
Part Five: Thinking Cricket
16 | Challenging Conventional Theories
My good friend Bob
A new approach
17 | The Bradman Project
Batting like Bradman
Figure 20
Figure 21
Just hit it
Figure 22
1. A player must first learn to control a fast-moving ball
2. Future generations of cricket coaches
18 | The Science of Batting
Brain research helps to win an Olympic gold medal
Watch the ball?
The eye of the batsman
19 | The Physiology of Cricket
1. Progressive overload
2. Specificity
3. Quantity first, quality later
4. Training regularity
5. Variety
6. Individualism
7. Stretching and strengthening programmes
8. Evaluation
20 | The Introduction of Science into South African Cricket
Figure 23
A tribute to a special friend
21 | A Friendship with Gary Kirsten
Batting is one of the hardest trades ever
Gary Kirsten and coaching
Part Six: The Central Governor
22 | It’s All in the Mind: It’s Not about Your Body
Opening the mind
Figure 24
Figure 25A
Figure 25B
The heart of the matter
Brainless physiology
Figure 26
How the central governor works
Figure 27
The cause of fatigue
23 | The Power of the Mind
The power of self-belief
Lewis Gordon Pugh – freezing out the negative
The University of Cape Town Ikey Tigers rugby team wins the 2011 Varsity Cup
Roger Bannister – the mind barrier
Terry Fox – running for life
Part Seven: Tim Noakes on …
24 | Coaching the Coaches
Just call me ‘Coach’
25 | Bruce Fordyce and Lessons on Overtraining
26 | The Springboks Are Overplayed
27 | Doping
28 | Why the Kenyans Are such Good Runners
Bibliography
Index
Photo section
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