Fit for Motorsport: Improve Your Race Performance with Better Physical and Mental Training | 
 enlarge | Author: R.s. Jutley
Publisher: Haynes Publishing
Category: Book
Buy Used: $133.45
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 845177
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 1859608760
Dewey Decimal Number: 388
UPC: 699414002320
EAN: 9781859608760
ASIN: 1859608760
Publication Date: August 2003
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Product Description
Improve your performance with better physical and mental training. Peak fitness is a prerequisite for a competitive edge, and top motorsport teams routinely employ medics, psychologists, dieticians and even armed forces specialists to help drivers hone their performance. It's a different picture at national and club level, where poor preparation can blight potential. Here, however, a doctor who competes as a rally driver offers expert information on all aspects of physical and mental fitness including diet, training, safety and medical regulations. Key content:, Simple, established, safe training principles., Measurable components such as stamina, strengths, suppleness, speed, skill and spirit., Balance, agility and co-ordination., Weight loss., Motorsport-specific circuit training., Rescue procedures in an emergency., Contributions from motorsport luminaries including Professor Sid Watkins, Colin McRae, Louise Aitken-Walker and Jim Moodie.
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 A Must Read for any MotorSports Participant April 20, 2007
A fascinating text detailing essential information on personal health and fitness for anyone participating in motorsport activities, written by a consultant cardiologist and active rally car driver. The importance of stamina, strength, mental attitude, agility and coordination, and nutrition is detailed covering 11 chapters; each with in-depth medical background, case-studies, illustrations and color photographs. Like Professor Sid Watkins, whom writes the Foreword, I find myself checking my Body Mass Index, calculating my VO2max, metabolic rates, and working out tailored diets. In addition, there is a Chapter devoted to emergency care and first-aid treatment in motorsport (a MUST read I believe for anyone), and the book concludes with a chapter on obtaining a competition license.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended! March 22, 2007
Fantastic book - does exactly what it says on the cover. Great buy for me as someone thinking about joining the sport who wants to grasp the basics and fundamentals. OK - it is unlikely to benefit the F1 drivers & top class race drivers but then again that's what the author says as well. Excellent chapter on emergency care. I thoroughly recommend this
Fit For Motorsport - R.S. Jutley July 21, 2005
A truly outstanding written work. Read it from cover to cover and tried to absorb as much of Dr Jutley's exhaustive detail as possible before embarking on my first season on motor racing in England. Whether you are a complete novice or a seasoned campaigner, Dr Raj Jutley's "Fit For Motorsport" is a definitive and indispensable handbook. Keep it with your MSA Blue book and Competition Licence!
 A little on the shallow side October 29, 2004
This is - as far as I can tell - the first book to ever really talk about fitness as applied to motor racing. Other books have tackled the mental aspects, and there's more books on driving technique than the world really needs, but the subject of physical training for motorsport is not covered much at all.
So I was very disappointed to find that this book was much more shallow than I had anticipated. It's more about general guidelines and rough ideas than about the specifics of developing a training regimen for a driver.
Given that the author seems to have had access to a number of notable drivers, this is a seriously lost opportunity. What does David Colthard or Colin McRae's weekly workout schedule look like? I don't know, because the book doesn't answer that question.
If the author (or someone in a similar position) is reading - give us the information required to set up a training programme for a top-level driver. More detail!
 Let Down March 12, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
FFM is the only book of its kind, which makes it seem better than it really is. Written by a cardiac surgeon (whose physical training experience is obviously limited), the books exhibits exercises which are higher in risk and lower in effectiveness than alternative movements. Books like this that show which exercises to perform, but don't tell you all of the important details about how to safely and effectively perform those exercises are all but worthless. The production quality of this book is poor - several photos are straight up BLURY. There is no excuse to include these photos in a professional product. The information provided is the same general knowledge that is available in most reputable fitness books. I was looking for something more pertinent to motor racing and this book does not deliver.
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