The Stomach for Fighting

Author: Rachel Duffet
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719084584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Food is critical to military performance, but it’s also central to social interaction and fundamental to our sense of identity. The soldiers of the Great War didn’t shed their eating preferences with their civilian clothes and the army rations, heavily reliant on bully beef and hardtack biscuit, were frequently found wanting. Nutritional science of the day had only a limited understanding of the role of vitamins and minerals, and the men were often presented with a diet that, shortages and logistics permitting, was high in calories but low in flavor and variety. Just as now, soldiers on active service were linked with home through the lovingly packed food parcels they received; a taste of home in the trenches. This book uses the personal accounts of the men themselves to explore a subject that was central not only to their physical health, but also to their emotional survival.

Analyze Your Fighting

Author: Darin Waugh
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0967287308
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 125

Book Description
The "Analyze Your Fighting Method," presented in this book shows martial artists how to use videotaped competition fights or sparring to truly understand their present skill and what it takes to become not just a great fighter, but a superior fighter! The Analyze Your Fighting Method includes five levels of evaluation, which are used to breakdown and study videotaped sparring and/or competition matches from every technique that was thrown to how mental attitude affected performance. Then, this book explains how to set fighting goals and plan workouts to achieve those goals. It also teaches martial artists how to use tactics to create winning strategies. To help in the creation of strategies, this book includes a one of kind "Tactics Catalog." This catalog lists over 100 tactics that fighters can incorporate into their strategies. This book is applicable to any type of martial arts system or competition including mixed martial arts.

Fight for the Forgotten

Author: Justin Wren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476791759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
"From notable mixed martial artist and UFC fighter, Justin Wren, comes a personal account of faith, redemption, empowerment, and overwhelming love as one man sets out on an international mission to fight for those who can't fight for themselves. Justin Wren knows what it's like to feel like the world is against you. Like many kids, Justin was bullied as a child, but had a dream that kept him going. Fueled by the anger he felt toward his tormenters, Justin trained hard and propelled his dream of becoming a UFC fighter into reality. But the pain from his childhood didn't dissipate and Justin fell into a spiral of depression and addiction, leading him on a path toward destruction. After getting kicked out of his training community, his career was in shambles and he had nowhere else to go, so Justin attended a men's retreat, and it was there he found God. As Justin began piecing his life back together, he joined several international mission trips that opened his eyes and his heart to a world filled with suffering deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There he came across the Mbuti Pygmy tribe, a group of people persecuted by neighboring tribes and forced into slavery. His encounter with the Pygmy tribe left him wondering who was there to help them and in that moment Justin stepped out of the ring and into a fight for the forgotten. From cage fighter to freedom fighter, Justin's story is a deeply personal memoir with a bigger message about a quest, justice, and the amazing things that can happen when we relinquish our lives to God"--

The Fighting Times of Abe Attell

Author: Mark Allen Baker
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664323
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Abraham Washington Attell (1883-1970) was among the cleverest, most scientific professional boxers ever to enter the ring. The native San Franciscan fought 172 times--with 127 wins, 51 by knockout--and successfully defended his World Featherweight Champion title 18 times between 1906 and 1912, defeating challengers who included Johnny Kilbane and Battling Nelson. Abe's success inspired his brothers Caesar and Monte to take up the sport--Abe and Monte both held simultaneous world titles for a time. This first ever biography covers Attell's life and career. Growing up poor and Jewish in an predominantly Irish neighborhood, he faced his share of adversity and anti-Semitism. He was charged for alleged involvement in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. The charges were dropped but Attell was branded for the remainder of his life.

Fighting Men of London

Author: Alex Daley
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1909626805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Fighting Men of London explores the lives of seven former professional boxers who fought in the capital between the 1930s and 1960s. Set around a series of interviews with the fighters, it resurrects a golden age when boxing was as popular as soccer in Britain, and when leading fighters were working-class heroes. Dramatic, poignant, inspiring, and at times funny, the book covers such subjects as booth fighting, exploitation in boxing, East End poverty, World War II London, fame and success, prison life, encounters with the Kray twins, Great Train Robbers, and Britain's most infamous inmate, Charles Bronson. Fighting Men of London journeys through a lost era of smoky fight halls and ramshackle boxing arenas. Its subjects include 1950s boxing star Sammy McCarthy, Bethnal Green knockout specialist Ted Berry (who helped his father train the Kray twins), and Sid Nathan, one of Britain's last surviving 1930s boxers.

The Reality of Fighting

Author: R. J. Defaye
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456844040
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description

The Stomach for Fighting

Author: Rachel Duffett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719099878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
"Food is critical to military performance, but it's also central to social interaction and fundamental to our sense of identity. The soldiers of the Great War didn't shed their eating preferences with their civilian clothes and the army rations, heavily reliant on bully beef and hardtack biscuit, were frequently found wanting. Nutritional science of the day had only a limited understanding of the role of vitamins and minerals, and the men were often presented with a diet that, shortages and logistics permitting, was high in calories but low in flavour and variety. Just as now, soldiers on active service were linked with home through the lovingly packed food parcels they received; a taste of home in the trenches. This book uses the personal accounts of the men themselves to explore a subject that was central not only to their physical health, but also to their emotional survival."--Publisher's website.

Cancer - Fight with Awareness

Author: Rajendra Badwe
Publisher: Byword Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8181930932
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
Cancer is associated with hopelessness, intractable pain and inevitable death. But the truth is that early diagnosis and treatment can help in curing cancer and improve a cancer patient's quality of life. The first step in our fight against cancer is to create an awareness of how it is recognized in its early stages, how it is best treated and how the side-effects of treatment can be overcome. This book is a compilation of the answers of world renowned cancer experts to common questions on cancer. We hope the information will empower patients as well as their relatives to confront and cope with their problems better.

The Art and Science of War Versus the Art of Fighting

Author: Robert Goldthwaite Carter
Publisher: J. M. Carroll Company
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description

Diabetes: Fight It with the Blood Type Diet

Author: Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440684634
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Featuring brand-new targeted food and supplement lists specific to diabetes that readers won't find anywhere else. America's fastest-growing health problem just got dealt a major blow. Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, the creator of the Blood Type Diet, which has forever changed the way people approach health and weight loss, now brings readers a targeted plan for fighting diabetes. This volume of Dr. D'Adamo's Health Library has specific tools not available in any other book, for preventing, treating, and reversing some of the many complications of diabetes.