Chasing Mastery

25 Lessons to Cultivate Your Full Potential in Endurance Sports

Matt Fitzgerald

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80/20 Publishing, LLC
16 April 2025

Sports training & coaching; Track & field sports, athletics

There's more to endurance performance than training. Best-selling author and coach Matt Fitzgerald gives athletes 25 practical lessons to unlock their true potential and master their sport.

Every athlete's pursuit of performance will eventually become a game of diminishing returns. Matt Fitzgerald invites endurance athletes to focus on mastery, and performance will follow.

The path to mastery goes well beyond an athlete's training program and stretches beyond the realm of sport. The end goal is for the athlete to realize their full potential, which will elevate their experience both in their sport and the rest of life.

Fitzgerald identifies five pillars of mastery:

Motivation: How You Feel

Learning: What to Do

Understanding: Why It Works

Individuation: How It Works for You

Challenge: How to Push Your Limits

Drawing lessons from sports, history, psychology, and science, Fitzgerald shakes up the traditional paradigm of athlete development with thought-provoking ideas and valuable practices. Chasing Mastery is a springboard for athletes of all ages and abilities to engage their true potential.

Table of Contents

I MOTIVATION

1 Love Wins

2 Die Running

3 Hard Fun

4 Everything Matters

5 Fear Not

II LEARNING

6 Best Practices

7 Consider the Source

8 Plan in Pencil

9 Deliberate Practice

10 Extended Health

III UNDERSTANDING

11 First Things First

12 But How Do You Feel?

13 Hurry Up and Wait

14 Keep It Simple, Stupid

15 Hot and Cold

IV INDIVIDUATION

16 Choose Your Adventure

17 Disrupt Complacency

18 Advance in a Different Direction

19 Train in Style

20 Be a Fox

V CHALLENGE

21 Keep It Real

22 Unsexy Restraint

23 Personal Best

24 What's Your Pebble?

25 More with Less

By: Matt Fitzgerald
Imprint: 80/20 Publishing, LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9798990795808
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 16 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matt Fitzgerald is an acclaimed endurance sports author, coach, and nutritionist. His many books include The Comeback Quotient, 80/20 Running, and Pain & Performance. Matt has also written for a number of leading sports and fitness publications, including Runner’s World and Triathlete, and for popular websites such as outsideonline.com and nbcnews.com. Matt is cofounder of 80/20 Endurance, the world's premier endurance sports training brand, and creator of Dream Run Camp, a pro-style residential training camp for runners of all abilities based in Flagstaff, Arizona. He also codirects the Coaches of Color Initiative, a nonprofit program that seeks to improve diversity in endurance coaching. A lifelong endurance athlete, Matt speaks frequently at events throughout the United States and internationally.