The mental training presented in this book has been proven successful by numerous coaching sessions and by endurance athletes throughout the world who have achieved significant and often dramatic achievements after improving their motivation, performance, and well-being with this mental training.

Caution: motivational bullshit! How can we increase our performance, go beyond our own limits and expand and overcome them, without sooner or later ending up burned out, exhausted, injured or even dead? Dr Michele Ufer distances himself from conventional motivational slogans and goes on the hunt for clues with 20 top-ranking guests from the world of sport and business.

This book offers recreational and competitive athletes a large repertoire of valuable self-motivation strategies. The authors illustrate the topic with numerous scientific studies on motivation and practical examples from different sports. As co-editor of the book, Dr. Michele Ufer has published a chapter on sovereignty in personal extreme situations. He calls that "limit skills"-