Endure: Mind, Body, And The Curiously Elastic Limits Of Human Performance,New

The New York Times Bestseller * Foreword By Malcom Gladwell'Reveals How We Can All Surpass Our Perceived Physical Limits.' Adam Grantdiscover 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 Virtually Every Field. But What If We All Can Go Farther, Push Harder, And Achieve More Than We Think Were Capable Of?Blending Cuttingedge Science And Gripping Storytelling In The Spirit Of Malcolm Gladwellwho Contributes The Books Forewordawardwinning Journalist Alex Hutchinson Reveals That A Wave Of Paradigmaltering Research Over The Past Decade Suggests The Seemingly Physical Barriers You Encounter As Set As Much By Your Brain As By Your Body. This Means The Mind Is The New Frontier Of Enduranceand That The Horizons Of Performance Are Much More Elastic Than We Once Thought.But, Of Course, Its Not All In Your Head. For Each Of The Physical Limits That Hutchinson Explorespain, Muscle, Oxygen, Heat, Thirst, Fuelhe Carefully Disentangles The Delicate Interplay Of Mind And Body By Telling The Riveting Stories Of Men And Women Whove Pushed Their Own Limits In Extraordinary Ways.The Longtime Sweat Science Columnist For Outside And Runners World, Hutchinson, A Former Nationalteam Longdistance Runner And Cambridgetrained Physicist, Was One Of Only Two Reporters Granted Access To Nikes Topsecret Training Project To Break The Twohour Marathon Barrier, An Extreme Quest He Traces Throughout The Book. But The Lessons He Draws From Shadowing Elite Athletes And From Traveling To Hightech Labs Around The World Are Surprisingly Universal. Endurance, Hutchinson Writes, Is The Struggle To Continue Against A Mounting Desire To Stopand Were Always Capable Of Pushing A Little Farther.