THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Foreword by Malcolm GladwellREVISED EDITION - Updated with the latest research and a new afterwordLimits 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.
This updated paperback edition features a new afterword.
The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great Performance in virtua. --Adam GrantDiscover the revolutionary account of the science and psychology of endurance, revealing the secrets of reaching the hidden extra potential within us all.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Foreword by Malcom GladwellReveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits.
Endurance, Hutchinson writes, is the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop--and we\'re always capable of pushing a little farther.
But the lessons he draws from shadowing elite athletes and from traveling to high-tech labs around the world are surprisingly universal.
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.
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.
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. --Adam Grant The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great Performance in virtually every field. --David Epstein, author of RangeReveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits.
A voyage to the outer reaches of Human capacity.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Foreword by Malcolm GladwellREVISED EDITION - Updated with the latest research and a new afterwordLimits 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
