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    Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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    Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

    Written by Alex Hutchinson

    Narrated by Robert G Slade

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    ‘This book is AMAZING!’ – MALCOLM GLADWELL

    ‘If you want to gain insight into the mind of great athletes, adventurers, and peak performers then prepare to be enthralled by Alex Hutchinson’s Endure.’ – BEAR GRYLLS

    How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person’s limits? From running a two-hour marathon to summiting Mount Everest, we’re fascinated by the extremes of human endurance, constantly testing both our physical and psychological limits.

    In Endure Alex Hutchinson, Ph.D., reveals why our individual limits may be determined as much by our head and heart, as by our muscles. He presents an overview of science’s search for understanding human fatigue, from crude experiments with electricity and frogs’ legs to sophisticated brain imaging technology. Going beyond the traditional mechanical view of human limits, he instead argues that a key element in endurance is how the brain responds to distress signals—whether heat, or cold, or muscles screaming with lactic acid—and reveals that we can train to improve brain response.

    An elite distance runner himself, Hutchinson takes us to the forefront of the new sports psychology – brain electrode jolts, computer-based training, subliminal messaging – and presents startling new discoveries enhancing the performance of athletes today, showing us how anyone can utilize these tactics to bolster their own performance – and get the most out of their bodies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 8, 2018
    ISBN9780008277055
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    • 5/5
      Great content, thought-provoking and meticulously researched.
      BUT the narrator's inability to pronounce some words and names is very irksome. For example, European words and names in other languages (Alpe d'Huez, Jacques Anquetil, Mont Ventoux...) and even the name of Eliud Kipchoge, who is absolutely central to the narrative! Either there needs to be editorial oversight, or the narrator needs to do basic research on non US-English pronunciation. In addition, the persistent use of US units of measure (pounds and ounces, inches and feet, degrees fahrenheit) make little sense to the rest of the world in the 21st century and a parallel edition using SI units really should be offered.
    • 5/5
      As an endurance amateur athlete I loved the book! Many interesting concepts, which we are familiar to: VO2 max, lactate threshold and so on seen with different lens. Different studies cited and good reasoning! It also made me dig deeper in training, as i figured out that the brain needs to train too!
    • 4/5
      Well researched. Endurance more than the technicalities and the technology is about blood, sweat and tears. And above all your own belief.
    • 4/5
      “Over the past decade, I’ve traveled to labs in Europe, South Africa, Australia, and across North America, and spoken to hundreds of scientists, coaches, and athletes who share my obsession with decoding the mysteries of endurance. I started out with the hunch that the brain would play a bigger role than generally acknowledged. That turned out to be true, but not in the simple it’s-all-in-your head manner of self-help books. Instead, brain and body are fundamentally intertwined, and to understand what defines your limits under any particular set of circumstances, you have to consider them both together. That’s what the scientists described in the following pages have been doing, and the surprising results of their research suggest to me that, when it comes to pushing our limits, we’re just getting started.”

      Journalist, physicist, and runner (as a member of the Canadian national team) Alex Hutchinson relates the history and latest scientific research regarding the limits of human performance. He is particularly interested in whether our limits are imposed by mental or physical factors. Woven in between the sports physiology is a narrative set around Eliud Kipchoge’s attempt to run a marathon in under two hours. He likens this milestone to Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile.

      This is a book for people who are avidly interested in endurance sports physiology and psychology. It contains fascinating anecdotes related to other sports such as cycling, mountain climbing, arctic exploration, basketball, breath-holding diving, triathlons, and ultramarathoning. The author creatively blends together these engrossing true stories with scientific data on world-class athletes. It seems the majority of people can improve through training the body, but once a person reaches world-class levels, the mind becomes an even bigger part of the performance.

      The information is imparted in an easily accessible fashion, though it will appeal most to those specifically interested in sports performance. There is no simple answer to the question of what limits us – body or brain – but Hutchinson thoroughly explores the subject in a way that kept my interest from beginning to end.
    • 4/5
      I got hold of this book because race walkers, including Canadian Evan Dunfee and Australian Jared Tallent, participated in a nutrition experiment, which was carb-free. This a good book on research into human performance, particularly sports. What food should se eat?, How do we train, intervals, routine? What are the limits of exertion and are they stretchable? What is the oxygen consumption. What does the brain think? What are our attitudes?