“Do you notice he’s not dead?” he asked. “It means he could have run faster.” Endure is by Alex Hutchinson. The subtitle is “Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance”. Mind and Body The thesis of Endure is that while working out, the mind plays a critical role in deciding when we feel tired and ready to give up — “fatigue ultimately resides in the brain”. Or in other words, “anything that moves the “effort dial” in your head up or down affects how far or fast you can run.” Another basic, brutal expression of this theory is in the epigraph at the head of this review.
Book Review: Endure
Book Review: Endure
Book Review: Endure
“Do you notice he’s not dead?” he asked. “It means he could have run faster.” Endure is by Alex Hutchinson. The subtitle is “Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance”. Mind and Body The thesis of Endure is that while working out, the mind plays a critical role in deciding when we feel tired and ready to give up — “fatigue ultimately resides in the brain”. Or in other words, “anything that moves the “effort dial” in your head up or down affects how far or fast you can run.” Another basic, brutal expression of this theory is in the epigraph at the head of this review.