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No Limits: The Will to Succeed

Michael Phelps on the preparation behind his Beijing gold medals

Michael Phelps's account of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the years of work behind them, published straight after the Games. The publisher's pitch is method over medals: a consistent approach to competition, mental preparation, and the races and lessons that shaped it, with coach Bob Bowman's observation that he made a habit of things other people were not willing to do.

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    Olympic swimmer · Most decorated Olympian in history

    His own account of the Beijing gold medals. The training, the mental preparation, the races. It carries his coach Bob Bowman's line that he has made a habit of things other people are not willing to do.

    Source: Apple Books: No Limits by Michael Phelps

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