Exercised why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding
"This highly engaging landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest? The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Are We Born to Rest or Run
- Part I: Inactivity
- 2. Inactivity: The Importance of Being Lazy
- 3. Sitting: Is it the New Smoking?
- 4. Sleep: Why Stress Thwarts Rest
- Part II: Speed, Strength and Power
- 5. Speed: Neither Tortoise nor Hare
- 6. Strength: From Brawny to Scrawny
- 7. Fighting and Sports: From Fangs to Football
- Part III: Endurance
- 8. Walking: All in a Day's Walk
- 9. Running and Dancing: Jumping from One Leg to the Other
- 10. Endurance and Aging: The Active Grandmother Hypothesis
- Part IV: Exercise in the Modern World
- 11. To Move or Not to Move: How to Make Exercise Happen
- 12. How Much and What Type?
- 13. Exercise and Disease.
