Natural Born Heroes : The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

P B Christopher McDougall /B fue corresponsal de guerra para I Associated Press /I y ahora escribe para I Men's Health /I . Tres veces finalista del National Magazine Award, ha escrito para I Esquire /I , I The New York Times Magazine /I , I Outside /I , I Men's Journal /I y I New York /I . Suele correr alrededor de las granjas Amish que rodean su casa en Pennsylvania. Su libro I Nacidos para correr /I (Debate, 2011) se convirtió en un I best seller /I internacional. Su último trabajo se titula I Nacidos para ser héroes /I .<br>