Personal Best: The Foremost Philosopher of Fitness Shares Techniques and Tactics for Success and Self-Liberation

by George Sheehan

Book Overview

Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative Period Mesoamerica. In Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture , she identifies the presence of women, human embryos, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878578587
• ISBN13: 9780878578580
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great

This book is inspirational. It helps you maintain fitness habits and I like George's philosophical nature. I recommend this to runners and non-runners alike. We will miss the wit and humor of Sheehan who died of cancer during the last decade.

everyone should read this book!

This is one of the best books I have ever read. I was amazed at how Dr. Sheehan wrote about things that I have thought about, dreamt about, and had to deal with in my running and life. All types and levels of athletes and even non-athletes will love this book. If you are a runner, this book will help you take a deeper look. This book will also help non-runners understand their running loved ones better!

A wonderful book

This is one of my top 5 favorite books ever. Not only is it highly motovating in terms of running, but it is very inspiring in terms of life in general. George Sheehan was a living hero and this book can help you become a hero too.

I wish he was still with us!

Being an amature philospher and a middle of the pack runner, one of the more memorable events in my running career, was meeting Dr. George Sheehan and getting a signed copy of this book. Dr. Sheehan was one of the best writers I have ever read. I don't know if it is my love of the subject, the quality writing, or the ability to connect with his life, but I love to read his work!I remember reading his column in the 'Runners World' before anything else every month--I just couldn't get enough.This book is no different.