Resilient : the untold story of Crossfit's greatest comeback
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW MEMOIR/WELLS,B

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Biography & Memoir NEW MEMOIR/WELLS,B Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xvi, 201 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781250289407, 1250289408 :, 1250289408, 9781250289407
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Snap -- Out -- Tribe -- Grief -- Imaging -- The plan -- Tommy John -- Purgatory -- Malibu -- Checkup -- Mind games -- Open season -- Open -- Quarterfinals -- The scare -- Semifinals -- The MACC mile -- Not today -- Resilient

"On the last night of the 2021 CrossFit Games, ten thousand fans watched in horror as Brooke Wells' elbow dislocated under the weight of a 190-pound barbell. This is the extraordinary story of what happened next: How Wells pulled off a highly improbable comeback that transformed her mentally and physically into one of the fittest women in the world. In Resilient, Wells provides a refreshingly honest, authentic account of how she overcame fear, self-doubt, and a slew of unexpected obstacles to return to the CrossFit Games less than a year after undergoing total elbow reconstruction. A story of strength, passion, courage, and grit, Resilient is a celebration of one athlete's extraordinary spirit and her inspiring ability to never say die"--