Month: February 2025

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Front Sight

Front Sight by Marco Masetti.

Marco Masetti is a ISSF Coach Class B. He has been a head coach of the senior pistol team (IT) and his shooters have been in the podium in the olympic games, European Championships, Workd Cups and finals.

This book is a collection of his notes as a coach including training methodology, training plans, camps, scatt analysis and more.

Available as ebook and print from Amazon.

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A Shot at History

A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold and Beyond by Abhinav Bindra

This book is available in print, ebook and audiobook. It’s a great story about Abhinav Bindra and his road to Indias first individual olympic goal medal.

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Mental Training for shooting Success

This book was published in 1988 and contains the following chapters:

  • Goal setting, First Steps to Being a Champion
  • The Training Plan, A Guide to Shooting Success
  • The Training Plan (cont.), A Guide for the Serious Shooter
  • Visualization as Mental Training
  • A Winning Self Image With, Positive Thinking
  • Building the Champion Shooter, From Inner Resources
  • Creating the Winner’s Image, Using Affirmations
  • Music for Relaxation
  • Planning The Champion’s Travel, Across The Twilight Zones
  • The Shooting Diary, A Necessity For Excellence
  • How to Shoot Better in The Wind
  • Exercise for Shooters, Stretches & Warm Ups
  • Calisthenics And Exercising, With Weights
  • Regulating Physical Training, With a Pulse Chart
  • Hints for Good Nutrition

Great resource on how to create a training plan for the goals that is defined in chapter 1. There has been a lot of development in the goal setting process after this book was written, but understanding how goals and training plans are connected is important.

Wishes -> Desires -> Long Term Goals -> Intermediate Goals -> Training Schedule -> Daily Goals -> Winning!

This book is also out of print, but you can find a used copy at online resellers as eBay and amazon.