About
Connie Flynn has currently released a brand new romantic suspense, KNOW WHEN TO RUN, which will soon be available on Freado.
Connie is a bestselling, award-winning author. With ten earlier novels from major New York publishing houses under her belt and several published short stories, Connie recently decided to jump into the Indie Publishing world. She is active on Facebook and Twitter and has a blog called Imagination Gone Wild.
She is also a co-founder of Bootcamp for Novelists a classroom style also teaches creative writing school that also appears sometimes on Savvy Author. Her entire list of early novels is now available as e-Books.
Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness
Description
<p><b>The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon.</b><br /> <br />One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, <i>Learning to Breathe Fire </i>combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die. <br /> <br />The story traces CrossFit’s rise, from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes and Janes. Especially riveting is Herz’s description of The CrossFit Games, which begin as an informal throw-down on a California ranch and evolve into a televised global proving ground for the fittest men and women on Earth, as well as hundreds of thousands of lesser mortals. <br /> <br />In her portrayal of the sport's star athletes, its passionate coaches and its “chief armorer,” Rogue Fitness, Herz powerfully evokes the uniqueness of a fitness culture that cultivates primal fierceness in average people. And in the shared ordeal of an all-consuming workout, she unearths the ritual intensity that's been with us since humans invented sports, showing us how, on a deep level, we're all tribal hunters and first responders, waiting for the signal to go all-out. </p>
Story Behind The Book
I fell in love with Lon Chaney's Wolfman when I was seven years old (go figure, then again I was just a kid) and was always drawn to the supernatural, the creatures and events that defy explanation. So when publishers began putting out calls for paranormal romance, Shadow on the Moon was born.
