Experts Tell Us the Best Extreme Sports Books

Adventures in Mother Nature’s Gym is the definitive guide to helping others reclaim the instinctive, wild, and essential aspect of the human experience through outdoor adventures. The book combines fitness program design with essential skill sets of an outdoor guide, trip planning tools, breathing meditations to curb stress, and a complete library of over 40 exercises to help train and prepare athletes and adventurers for their outdoor escapades and fitness retreats. The course is a must for anyone with an interest in enhancing their own personal fitness and connection to the natural world. What Melanie Webb offers in her Adventures in Mother Nature’s Gym is a program that can help reconnect our patients and clients to an aspect of their being that is undernourished and therefore contributing to their depleted state. Melanie makes being in the outdoors fun, playful, yet pragmatic. – Karen Koffler, M.D., Medical Director of the Osher Integrative Medical Center at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida.

Nine-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater breaks down his life of big wins, big money, and big love in his book. He gets input from other surfers to help explain his unconventional life.

Christopher McDougall wrote this epic book that is essential for any runner of any distance. It could ignite the spark in you and act as a catalyst to become an ultra runner. The book dives into the science and psychology of running with fantastic insights from a number of the giants of running. The book includes an expose on lost running tribes and their ability to run bare foot over huge distances. This book triggered the whole movement of bare foot running and runners turning their backs on increasing padding in footwear. A brilliant and gripping read.