Endure - Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (Hutchinson Alex)(Paperback / softback) - diskuze

‘This book is AMAZING!’ Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Outliers and Blink'Reveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits.' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Hidden Potential‘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, bestselling author of Range'A high-water mark for understanding the physiology the art and the science of how to perform at your best.' Rich Roll, host of the Rich Roll podcast and author of Finding Ultra__________We've all felt it. The moment your body says stop. Your legs screaming, lungs burning, every instinct telling you there's nothing left. But what if that signal isn't the end of your capacity? What if it's just your brain playing it safe?In Endure, award-winning science journalist and elite distance runner Alex Hutchinson upends everything we think we know about human limits. Drawing on decades of research and the cutting edge of sports science, he makes a compelling, evidence-backed case: fatigue is not a physical event. It is a sensation, one manufactured and managed by the brain, which is constantly calculating how much you have left and deciding, often conservatively, when to call it.This changes everything. Because if your limits are partly a decision rather than a fixed ceiling, they can be negotiated. Trained. Pushed.Hutchinson takes us from early experiments with elect
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