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Featuring a foreword by Malcolm Gladwell Writing from both cutting edge of scientific discovery and the front-lines of top notch athletic performance, National Magazine Award-winning knowledge journalist Alex Hutchinson reveals a revolutionary profile of the active and controversial new knowledge of endurance. The capability to endure could very well be the key trait that separates champions and decides great performance in virtually any field - from a 100-meter sprint to a 100-mile ultramarathon, from summiting Everest to acing finals. But what if everything we've been taught about endurance was wrong? What if we all have significantly more potential than we want to go farther, thrust harder, and achieve more? Blending cutting-edge knowledge and gripping storytelling in the vein of Malcolm Gladwell - who forewords the reserve - Hutchinson shows that a influx of paradigm-altering research within the last decade suggests that the relatively physical obstacles you encounter are mediated all the by your brain as by your body. But it's not "all in your head." For each of the physical limitations that Hutchinson explores - pain, muscle, oxygen, heat, thirst, petrol - he carefully disentangles the delicate interplay of brain and muscle by revealing the riveting tales of men and women who've approached (and sometimes surpassed) their own ultimate limitations. As the longtime "Sweat Technology" columnist for External and Runner's World as well as a repeated contributor to The New Yorker and New York Times, Hutchinson pulls on his backdrop as a past national-team long-distance runner and Cambridge-trained physicist. However the lessons he pulls from planing a trip to labs throughout the world and checking out new endurance-boosting techniques like electric brain activation and brain endurance training are surprisingly universal. Strength, he creates, is "the battle to continue against a mounting desire to avoid" - and we're always with the capacity of pushing a little farther.
