But the lessons he draws from shadowing elite athletes and from traveling to high-tech labs around the world are surprisingly universal. 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. This means the mind is the new frontier of endurance-and that the horizons of performance are much more elastic than we once thought.īut, 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 third Ebook in The Ship series, Endurance continues the saga of an average man who heard a strange voice in his head one day. The book starts with the Endurance, trapped in the Antarctic ice. But what if we all can go farther, push harder, and achieve more than we think we're capable of?īlending 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. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail. The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every field.
"Reveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits." -Adam Grant "A voyage to the outer reaches of human capacity." -David Epstein, author of Range Summary: NATIONAL BEST SELLER A stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International.
Limits are an illusion: discover the revolutionary account of the science and psychology of endurance, revealing the secrets of reaching the hidden extra potential within us all.
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