Natural Born Heroes - The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
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19,99 €
| Verlag | Profile Books |
| Auflage | 2016 |
| Seiten | 352 |
| Format | 12,8 x 19,8 x 2,4 cm |
| Gewicht | 289 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1846684579 |
| EAN | 9781846684579 |
| Bestell-Nr | 84668457UA |
From the man who brought you Born to Run: a radical new approach to fitness
Klappentext:
§AS HEARD ON THE CHRIS EVANS BREAKFAST SHOW - "It's not just for runners. It's for life! It's a great story."
When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special.
To beat the odds, the tricksters-starving, aging, outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness: the lost art of heroism. They listened to their instincts, replaced calories with stored bodily fat and used their fascia, the network of tissue which criss-crosses the body, to catapult themselves to superhuman strength and endurance.
Soon McDougall was in the middle of a modern fitness revolution taking place everywhere from Parisian parkour routes to state-of-the-art laboratories, and based on the know-how of Shanghai street-fighters and Wild West gunslingers. Just as Born to Run got runners off the treadmill and into nature, Natur al Born Heroes will inspire casual athletes to dump the gym membership for cross-training, mud runs and free-running.
Rezension:
'A fascinating edifice of ideas ... But the pleasures of the book are as much to do with the fascinating panoply of characters, war heroes all, British, Commonwealth and Cretan, whose exploits contributed so much to Hitler's downfall. Independent
