Word: hyperjock
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Isaacson is quick with encouragement and compliments, but carefully avoids hyperjock competitiveness or withering comparisons.[*] A member of the American College of Sports Medicine, he draws from a variety of sources (the Pritikin Program, Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible, The Sports-medicine Book by Gabe Mirkin and Marshall Hoffman) and serves it all up with a commonsensical approach that stresses his four Ds: decision, determination, discipline and diligence. His unballyhooed fifth D, of course, is deference. He ministers to egos as deftly as to flesh, and he is sympathetic to the open-pore scrutiny and pressures faced by performers. "They...
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