Athletics

How to Become a Champion

A discursive Textbook

by Percy Wells Cerutty

photographs by M. A. Stratton

Stanley Paul & Co., 1962, [Fifth Impression], black and white photographic plates, black and white photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, age toned pages, a little foxing, clipped dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, creasing and small tears, a little discolouration (see photographs)

“Percy Wells Cerutty, world-renowned coach to world-record-breaking Australian athletes such as Herb Elliot and John Landy, has written an important book which every athlete should read and every coach must.
At last a coach has put on paper how the mind of an athlete works.  Cerutty has brought athletics, and maybe sport, to the dawn of a new era.  Greater achievements will come when his ideas are universally accepted.  His chapter on movement, using animals and the different human races as examples, makes this an advanced coaching book.
This book deals with champions: It tells the full story of Herb Elliot.  But also deals with athletes of club standards.”