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Endure de Alex Hutchinson

Endure

Autor Alex Hutchinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2021

Notăm cu interes cum Endure reușește să recalibreze înțelegerea noastră asupra efortului extrem, propunând o perspectivă în care mintea nu este doar un observator, ci arhitectul limitelor noastre fizice. Găsim în această lucrare o analiză metodică a șase piloni biologici — durerea, capacitatea musculară, oxigenarea, reglarea termică, hidratarea și resursele energetice — demontând mitul conform căruia corpul cedează primul. Alex Hutchinson folosește rigoarea sa academică de fizician format la Cambridge și intuiția de atlet de elită pentru a demonstra că barierele pe care le considerăm absolute sunt, în realitate, mult mai elastice. Suntem de părere că forța acestui text rezidă în echilibrul dintre povestirea captivantă și datele științifice de ultimă oră. Autorul ne introduce în laboratoare de înaltă tehnologie și ne oferă detalii din culisele proiectului Breaking2 al Nike, transformând cercetarea aridă într-o narațiune despre potențialul uman. Fanii volumului The Science of Running de Steve Magness vor recunoaște aceeași atenție la detaliul fiziologic și biomecanic, însă aplicată aici într-un context mult mai larg, care atinge psihologia profundă a rezilienței. Spre deosebire de manualele tehnice de antrenament, Endure se concentrează pe acel dialog intern care ne îndeamnă să ne oprim și pe strategiile prin care putem amâna acest moment. Această lucrare continuă explorarea începută de autor în Resistencia, unde capacitatea de a rezista era prezentată ca trăsătura cheie pentru succes în orice domeniu. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe performanța brută, aici Hutchinson nuanțează relația complexă dintre semnalele creierului și capacitatea de execuție, oferind o lectură esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă unde se termină biologia și unde începe voința.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062499981
ISBN-10: 006249998X
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 137 x 205 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Endure oricărui sportiv, amator sau profesionist, care a simțit vreodată că a ajuns la un „zid” fizic. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care creierul guvernează oboseala și va învăța că limitele percepute sunt adesea doar mecanisme de siguranță. Este o lectură fascinantă despre depășirea barierelor mentale, utilă nu doar pe pistă, ci în orice provocare care necesită perseverență pe termen lung.

Despre autor

Alex Hutchinson este un autor și jurnalist premiat, specializat în știința sportului și a performanței. Deține un doctorat în fizică de la Universitatea Cambridge și a realizat cercetări post-doctorale pentru Agenția Națională de Securitate a SUA. Fost membru al echipei naționale de atletism a Canadei, Hutchinson îmbină expertiza tehnică cu experiența practică pe teren. Este editorialist pentru publicații prestigioase precum Outside și Runner's World, fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea de a traduce concepte științifice complexe în strategii aplicabile pentru atingerea potențialului uman maxim.

Descriere scurtă

The New York Times Bestseller * Foreword by Malcom Gladwell
"Reveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits." —Adam Grant
Discover the revolutionary account of the science and psychology of endurance, revealing the secrets of reaching the hidden extra potential within us all. This updated paperback edition features a new afterword.
The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every field. 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 Gladwell—who contributes the book’s foreword—award-winning journalist Alex Hutchinson reveals that a wave of paradigm-altering research over the past decade suggests the seemingly physical barriers you encounter as set as much by your brain as by your body. This means the mind is the new frontier of endurance—and 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 explores—pain, muscle, oxygen, heat, thirst, fuel—he carefully disentangles the delicate interplay of mind and body by telling the riveting stories of men and women who’ve pushed their own 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 stop”—and we’re always capable of pushing a little farther.

Recenzii

“This book is AMAZING!” — MALCOLM GLADWELL
“Makes the case that we’re actually underestimating our potential, and reveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits.” — Adam Grant, LinkedIn.com
“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, Mt. Everest summiteer and host of NBC’s Running Wild with Bear Grylls
“Fascinating (and motivating). ... Hutchinson sheds light on how humans accomplish our most absurd athletic achievements.” — Esquire
“A perfect book for the armchair athlete. ... If you ever wonder, How do they do that? Hutchinson has the answers. ... Discovers that what we think of as our limits are set by our minds, not by our bodies.” — Success (”AHA! Reading List”)
“Alex Hutchinson’s Endure is so much more than a sports book. It is a voyage to the outer reaches of human capacity.” — DAVID EPSTEIN, author of Range and The Sports Gene
“Hutchinson looks at the art and science of endurance, with a focus on running but with take-aways that can be applied to any project, mental or physical.” — Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“[Hutchinson] has a true gift for writing compelling sports stories and combining them with deft analyses of cutting-edge research. ... A captivating and often moving book with something to offer readers interested in health, athleticism, neuroscience, and the human condition.” — Kirkus (*starred review*)
“Persuasive and motivating. ... Transports readers to a realm where psychology, environment, and physiology all intersect.” — Booklist (*starred review*)
“Want to achieve more? Often that means you have to do more -- and Alex will show you how.” — Inc.
“We’re all intrigued by amazing feats of human endurance, from Everest to marathon world records to global Ironman competitions. How do they do it? Alex Hutchinson’s Endure explores the topic from every conceivable angle. An essential read for every endurance athlete.” — AMBY BURFOOT, 1968 Boston Marathon winner, Runner’s World writer-at-large, and editor of Runner’s World Complete Book of Running
“Carefully researched and based on the most current ideas in the science of running, Alex Hutchinson’s Endure is written with a fluency that makes it easily accessible for all runners. 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
“The best popular science book on human performance I’ve ever read.” — Mark Burnley, Ph.D., School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Kent
“Examines how we can push beyond our limits. ... Gives a gripping insight into the mind of great athletes, adventurers and peak performers to find out what gives them the capacity to push harder and achieve more.” — The Independent (Ireland)
“Endure is a pure science book that goes deep, especially into the mind, and the pacing and story-telling are top notch.” — Runner’s World
“Cinematic. ... Thrilling. ... Hutchinson excels at making the science cohere around his central question: what limits us, our body or our mind?” — Canadian Running
“A fascinating exploration of the limits of the human body—and, to a large extent, the human mind. .... A must-read. ... Highly relevant for those looking to better understand and improve their performance off the playing field, too. ” — BRAD STULBERG and STEVE MAGNESS, authors of Peak Performance
“So good. Smart, inspiring, and just fun to read. Makes me wanna be a better runner (and faster reader).” — GRETCHEN REYNOLDS, New York Times “Well” columnist and author of The First 20 Minutes

Notă biografică

Alex Hutchinson, Ph.D., is a columnist for Outside magazine and was a long-time columnist for Runner's World. A National Magazine Award winner, he is a regular contributor to The New Yorker online, pens the weekly "Jockology" column in the Toronto Globe and Mail, and writes for the New York Times. FiveThirtyEight recently named him one of their "favorite running science geeks." He was a two-time finalist in the 1,500 meters at the Canadian Olympic Trials, and represented Canada internationally in track, cross-country, road racing, and mountain running competitions. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge, and has worked as a researcher for the U.S. National Security Agency. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

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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.