Survival of the Fittest: Understanding Health And Peak Physical Performance

Health, Fitness & Dieting

MIKE STROUD

Exercise & Fitness

Vintage

<p>For over 15,000 years human beings have hardly changed genetically at all. We are therefore as capable today as our ancestors of withstanding extremes of heat and cold, going for long periods without food, and of finding sudden bursts of energy. This is an explanation of how we might regain our natural physical prowess and adaptability.</p>

Survival of the Fittest: Understanding Health and Peak Physical Performance

JONATHAN CAPE.

Discover the secrets of how to perform at your best in 2019In this fascinating book based soundly in medical science, Mike Stroud - of BBC Television's The Challenge and SAS: Are You Tough Enough - sets out the genetics, diet and exercise that enable humans to perform at their peak. Dr Stroud - polar explorer, practising hospital physician, and a former adviser to the Ministry of Defence - analyses individual feats of survival and athletic prowess that illustrate the way the body functions at its best. He dissects his own challenging experiences of crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes, running marathons in the Sahara and participating in gruelling cross-country endurance races in the United States and gives some tips on how to stay fit for life for those of us who find walking the dog an endurance challenge...This revised edition includes the story of Dr Stroud and Sir Ranulph Fiennes' incredible 2003 global marathon challenge - seven marathons on seven continents in seven days - in aid of the British Heart Foundation.'The ultimate sporting diet documented in mouth-watering detail' The Times

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