Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance Audiobook (Free)

NEW YORK Instances BESTSELLER • ‘Reveals how exactly we may all surpass our perceived physical limits.’ -Adam Give

Limits are an illusion: a groundbreaking book that reveals the secrets of accessing your hidden extra potential

Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell

The capability to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in just about any field-from a 100-meter sprint to a 100-mile ultramarathon, from summiting Everest to acing final exams or completing any hard project. But about Endure: Brain, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Restricts of Human Functionality what if we all can go farther, force harder, and attain a lot more than we think we’re capable of?

Mixing cutting-edge science and gripping storytelling in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell-who contributes the book’s foreword-award-winning journalist Alex Hutchinson uncovers that a wave of paradigm-altering research over the past decade suggests the seemingly physical barriers you encounter as set as very much by the human brain as by your body. This means the mind is the new frontier of endurance-and that this horizons of functionality are much more elastic than we once thought.

But, of course, it isn’t “all in your head.” For each from the physical limits that Hutchinson explores-pain, muscles, oxygen, temperature, thirst, fuel-he carefully disentangles the sensitive interplay of mind and body by informing the riveting tales of men and women who’ve pushed their own limitations in extraordinary methods.

The longtime “Perspiration Science” columnist for Outside and Runner’s World, Hutchinson, a former national-team long-distance runner and Cambridge-trained physicist, was one of only two reporters granted access to Nike’s top-secret training project to break the two-hour marathon barrier, an extreme quest he traces through the entire book. However the lessons he pulls from shadowing elite athletes and from traveling to high-tech labs around the world are surprisingly universal. Stamina, Hutchinson writes, is usually “the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop”-and we’re usually capable of pushing a little further.