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

Description

Review ‘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‘Anyone who has ever felt exhausted, whether from heat or cold or altitude or pain or simply a loss of will, is going to find their own experience in this book.” ― DAVID EPSTEIN, author of The Sports GeneAn essential read for every endurance athlete.” ― AMBY BURFOOT, 1968 Boston Marathon winner and editor of Runner's World Complete Book of Running‘This is an excellent resource for anyone seeking to better to understand how our minds influence our ultimate performances.’ ― TIM NOAKES, emeritus professor of exercise science at the University of Cape Town‘An intelligent, exhaustively researched study.’ – The Times About the Author Alex Hutchinson is a contributing editor at Popular Mechanics magazine, senior editor at Canadian Running magazine, and columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail. He holds a master's in journalism from Columbia and a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge, and he did his post-doctoral research with the U.S. National Security Agency.