How can athletes train for maximum performance and joy? THE JOYFUL ATHLETE shares the findings of a veteran runner who worked as an editor at Runner’s World and has raced at distances from 100 yards to 100K. After receiving a master’s degree from Stanford University, author George Beinhorn was paralysed from the chest down for three years. No sooner had he recovered than a spiritual teacher urged him to start running. For the next 40 years, he researched ways to make training both scientific and personally rewarding. Studying the careers of hundreds of athletes, he found that the most successful shared two qualities. First, they were expansive – they had a positive outlook and exceptional energy. And they practised "feeling-based training" – they had an uncanny ability to understand the signals their bodies were sending. THE JOYFUL ATHLETE tells a riveting story of groundbreaking research that reveals why our bodies thrive when we cultivate expansive thoughts and feelings and how scores of athletes at all levels have found success by "feeling-based training.