Competitive and elite sport is a multi-billion dollar industry, which has seen numerous advancements in sport technology, training principles and nutrition over the last few decades. These improvements have created a new generation of athletes that are stronger, faster and more skilled than ever before. Mark McClusky is a veteran journalist, editor and author of the book Faster, Higher, Stronger - How Sport Science is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes - and What We Can Learn from Them. In his book, McClusky dives into the world of elite sports to find out what it really takes to become a top athlete in the 21st century.
Faster, Higher, Stronger - How Sport Science is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes - and What We Can Learn from Them details how athletes and coaches are using science and technology to achieve new levels of human performance. McClusky explains that raw talent; hard work and good coaching are no longer enough to achieve elite level status because these advancements are changing the way that athletes eat, train and recover. Improvements that have been made in the fields of sport supplements, sport analysis, recovery, and exercise physiology are detailed in the book and McClusky emphasizes that it is the synergistic interplay between them that provides top athletes with a competitive edge.
Through a combination of scientific literature, interviews, and occasional reflection of personal experience, McClusky has put together a strong and convincing basis for how teams of coaches, trainers, nutritionist, and scientists, influence an athlete’s performance in their sport. The scientific literature that is referenced appears to come from credible sources and the conversations that he narrates come from top product engineers, athletes, coaches, and sport analysts from a wide variety of sports.
I would recommend Faster, Higher, Stronger - How Sport Science is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes - and What We Can Learn from Them to any sport and performance enthusiast. It is both an entertaining and educational read and compliments books such as The Sport Gene and The Talent Code, which also provide insight into the evolution of elite sport and athletics.