Natural Born Heroes [electronic resource] : The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
McDougall, Christopher2015
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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, Natural Born Heroes will inspire casual athletes to dump the gym membership for cross-training, mud runs and free-running.
Main title:
Natural Born Heroes [electronic resource] : The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance / Christopher McDougall
Author:
McDougall, Christopher, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Profile, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Christopher McDougall is author of the internationally bestselling Born to Run, which is being adapted into a TV series, Natural Born Heroes, and Running with Sherman. He lives in rural Pennsylvania and Hawaii.
Awards:
The New York Times Best Seller List (The New York Times)
ISBN:
9781847659330
Language:
English
BRN:
2796871
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