With a bike, a turbo trainer and the right advice, you can beat anyone. No one but Graeme Obree has the clarity of vision to get to the heart of the ‘problem’ of how to improve as a racing cyclist. His innovative approach took him to the top of world cycling, twice breaking the world hour record – a story picked up in his Hollywood biopic The Flying Scotsman. It can draw the same outstanding athletic performance from you. The Obree Way side-steps conventional wisdom and strips cycling back to its elements, always asking the question: ‘What actually improves my race time?’ This is no routine training programme. Written in a conversational style, the book explains Graeme Obree’s radical insights into technique, training, psychology and diet, and the clear logic behind them. At last, the best kept secret in cycling, the Obree three-phase breathing technique, is revealed in detail, getting more oxygen to your blood with less effort. Graeme Obree’s training methods really work – the man is living proof. He believes that resting is key to training, that you can pedal, stretch and breathe more effectively and that, if you really want it, you can find the will and intensity to improve. Get on your bike!

The Obree Way

Sports & Outdoors

Obree, Graeme

Individual Sports

Bloomsbury Academic

A fully updated edition of two-time World Hour Record holder and World 4000m Pursuit champion Graeme Obree's popular guide to cycling.
No one but Graeme Obree has the clarity of vision to get to the heart of the problem of how to improve as a racing cyclist. His innovative approach took him to the top of world cycling. This is his practical guide to revolutionizing your cycling training--applicable to all cyclists, from the weekend warrior to the serious competitor.
The Obree Way swerves conventional wisdom and strips cycling back to its elements, always asking the question: "What actually improves my race time?"
Fully updated and including two new chapters, the new edition of this cycling classic explains Graeme Obree’s radical insights into technique, training, psychology, and diet, as well as the clear logic behind them.

The Obree Way: A Training Manual for Cyclists - ‘A MUST-READ’ CYCLING WEEKLY

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diets & Weight Loss

Bloomsbury Sport

Flying Scotsman: The Graeme Obree Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Birlinn

"Deeply moving. His determination and single-mindedness was and still is a true inspiration to me". (Sir Chris Hoy). "This is a book that must have taken great courage to write, is a harrowing reminder of how little the public know about sportsmen, no matter how brightly the spotlight shines on them." (The Guardian Number 10 in Cycle Sport's Best 50 Cycling Books of All Time). It includes a foreword by Sir Chris Hoy. Graeme Obree's story begins with a tough upbringing in the Ayrshire valleys, where he found his escape by taking to the roads on his bike. He would emerge from total obscurity to smash Francesco Moser's World Hour Record, controversy hard at his heels for his unique riding style and pioneering construction techniques - famously using parts from a washing machine to build his bike, 'Old Faithful'. But amidst the record attempts, media feeding frenzy and thrilling head-to-head duels with Chris Boardman, Graeme was fighting another battle. With searing honesty, he recounts his biggest battle against depression which drove him to attempt suicide.

On 17 July 1993, Graeme Obree stunned the international world when he emerged from obscurity to smash Francesco Moser's World Hour Record. The Flying Scotsman is Graeme Obree's searing autobiography, from his tough upbringing in Ayrshire where he found escape on the roads, to his head-to-head duals with Chris Boardman and becoming a major star on the European circuit. Obree created massive controversy in the professional cycling world with his unique riding style and his pioneering construction techniques - famously using washing-machine parts to complete the building of his 'Old Faithful'. Yet all his sporting success was achieved in the shadow of manic depression and suicidal despair. His life continues to have its ups and downs as Obree brings his amazing life story up to date as he continues to astound the world with his creative genius and sporting prowess.

The Flying Scotsman

Arena Sport

Little-known Graeme Obree became international cycling’s most unlikely star, capturing the public’s imagination with his innovative engineering and design skills and unique training regiments. When he broke world records and won championships, the cycling authorities outlawed both his bike and his tucked riding position. He invented the "Superman" riding style and triumphed again. But while battling authorities and other cyclists, Obree was also battling a much more serious threat: bipolar disorder. In The Flying Scotsman, Obree tells his remarkable story with brutal honesty and unexpected humor. Beginning with his troubled childhood in Ayrshire, where the bike was his only escape, Obree recounts his turbulent life and career, describing what drove him to not only break records, but to attempt suicide on three separate occasions. Long known for his courage on the track, here Obree demonstrates a different kind of courage as he movingly lays bare his struggle with manic depression.

Flying Scotsman : Cycling to Triumph Through My Darkest Hours

Velo Press

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The Obree Way

The Obree Way: A Training Manual for Cyclists - ‘A MUST-READ’ CYCLING WEEKLY

Flying Scotsman: The Graeme Obree Story

Flying Scotsman: The Graeme Obree Story

The Flying Scotsman

Flying Scotsman : Cycling to Triumph Through My Darkest Hours