Endure Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Nein
Erscheinungsdatum
06.02.2018
Verlag
HarperCollinsSeitenzahl
336 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1939 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780062499974
LIMITS ARE AN ILLUSION: A REVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNT OF THE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY OF ENDURANCE, REVEALING THE SECRETS OF REACHING THE EXTRA POTENTIAL WITHIN US ALL.
The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every fieldfrom a 100-meter sprint to a 100-mile ultramarathon, from summiting Everest to acing final exams or completing any difficult project. But what if we all can go farther, push harder, and achieve more than we think we're capable of?
Blending cutting-edge science and gripping storytelling in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwellwho contributes the book's forewordaward-winning journalist Alex Hutchinson reveals that a wave of paradigm-altering research over the past decade suggests the seemingly physical barriers you encounter are set as much by your brain as by your body. This means the mind is the new frontier of enduranceand that the horizons of performance are much more elastic than we once thought.
But, of course, it's not all in your head. For each of the physical limits that Hutchinson explorespain, muscle, oxygen, heat, thirst, fuelhe carefully disentangles the delicate interplay of mind and body by telling the riveting stories of men and women who've pushed their own ultimate limits in extraordinary ways.
The longtime Sweat Science columnist for Outside and Runner's World, Hutchinson, a former national-team long-distance runner and Cambridge-trained physicist, was one of only two reporters granted access to Nike's top-secret training project to break the two-hour marathon barrier, an extreme quest he traces throughout the book. But the lessons he draws from shadowing elite athletes and from traveling to high-tech labs around the world are surprisingly universal. Endurance, Hutchinson writes, is the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stopand we're always capable of pushing a little farther.
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