Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
By: Christopher McDougall
3.84
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that …
Want to Read $ 7.99"Outlaws have to be poised, smart, and independent; they have to cultivate allies, assess risk, and keep their antennae fine-tuned to everyone and everything around them. Outlaws focus on what people can do."-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
"We've lulled ourselves into believing that in an emergency, someone else will always come along to rescue us. We've stopped relying on our own wonderfully adaptable bodies; we've forgotten that we can think, climb, leap, run, throw, swim, and fight with more versatility than any other creature on the planet."-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
"Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. You don't get time-outs, warm-ups, or bathroom breaks. You may have a headache or be wearing the wrong pants or find yourself—the way Norina did—in a skirt and low heels in a school hallway becoming slick with your own blood."-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
"Daredevils aren't the answer; spinal rehab wards are full of daredevils. Fearlessness doesn't really help, either: when your car breaks down, you don't want the mechanic to say, 'I've never done this before, but I'm willing to die trying.' What you want to hear is 'Don't worry. This is right up my alley.' Heroism isn't some mysterious inner virtue, the Greeks believed; it's a collection of skills that every man and woman can master so that in a pinch, they can become a Protector."-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
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1. Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
By: Christopher McDougall
3.84
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
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"Outlaws have to be poised, smart, and independent; they have to cultivate allies, assess risk, and keep their antennae fine-tuned to everyone and everything around them. Outlaws focus on what people …"-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
"We've lulled ourselves into believing that in an emergency, someone else will always come along to rescue us. We've stopped relying on our own wonderfully adaptable bodies; we've forgotten that we ca…"-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
"Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. You don't get time-outs, warm-ups, or bathroom breaks. You may have a headache or be we…"-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
"Daredevils aren't the answer; spinal rehab wards are full of daredevils. Fearlessness doesn't really help, either: when your car breaks down, you don't want the mechanic to say, 'I've never done this…"-Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
2. 50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!
By: Matt Fitzgerald , Dean Karnazes
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Discover the secrets for super endurance-from one of the fittest men on the planet! Dean Karnazes … read more
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3. The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
By: David Epstein
4.20
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. In high school, I wonde… read more
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"The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it."-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
"One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people…"-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
"If you want to know if your kid is going to be fast, the best genetic test right now is a stopwatch. Take him to the playground and have him face the other kids.' Foster's point is that, despite the …"-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
4. Run! 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss
By: Dean Karnazes
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In his follow-up to the best-selling Ultra-Marathon Man, world-renowned ultra marathoner Dean Karna… read more
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5. How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
By: Matt Fitzgerald
4.10
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have know… read more
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"Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose."-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,"-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?"-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
"Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage."-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
6. The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
By: Neal Bascomb
4.21
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of huma… read more
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7. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
By: Dean Karnazes
4.00
Format: 50 pages,
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8. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
By: Laurence Gonzales
4.00
Format: None pages,
In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate t… read more
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9. What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning will Renew our Lost Evolutionary Strength
By: Scott Carney
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What Doesn't Kill Us traces our evolutionary journey back to a time when survival depended on how w… read more
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10. The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Wathe Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness y to Exceptional Fitness
By: Philip Maffetone
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Dr. Maffetone's unique training system for champions proves that the kinder, gentler approach actua… read more
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11. Running Man
By: Charlie Engle
3.70
Format: 640 pages, ebook
Charlie Engle's "fascinating account of the high and low points of his life as an ultramarathon run… read more
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12. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.… read more
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13. The Cool Impossible: The Coach from "Born to Run" Shows How to Get the Most from Your Miles-And From Yourself
By: Christopher McDougall , Richard O'Brien , Eric Orton
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Featured in the bestselling book Born to Run, coach and performance guru Eric Orton has spent a lif… read more
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14. Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team
By: Chris Lear
3.87
Format: 288 pages,
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15. Run or Die
By: Kilian Jornet
3.75
Format: None pages, ebook
"The most dominating endurance athlete of his generation." -- New York Times An exceptional athlete… read more
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16. The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running
By: Adharanand Finn
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
It may come as a surprise to many people, but Japan is the most running-obsessed country on earth. … read more
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17. Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
By: Adharanand Finn
2.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A dusty road stretches into the distance like a pencil line across the arid landscape. Lions, rhin… read more
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18. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
By: Daniel E. Lieberman
3.87
Format: 252 pages, ebook
A landmark book of popular science--a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over mi… read more
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19. 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower
By: Matt Fitzgerald , Robert Johnson
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
TRAIN EASIER TO RUN FASTER This revolutionary training method has been embraced by elite runners--w… read more
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21. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more
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22. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
By: Michael Easter
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and re… read more
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23. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
By: Scott Jurek
4.22
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run , a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating… read more
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"It was just numbers. I knew I could outrun numbers."-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
"AT legend has it that Pennsylvania hiking clubs and trail crews are proud of their state's nickname of Rocksylvania and don't remove rocks from the trail. In fact, some people claim they actually dum…"-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
24. The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance
By: Adharanand Finn
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying look inside the wild world of extreme distance running. Once the reserve of only… read more
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25. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
By: Rich Roll
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Finding Ultra is an incredible but true a… read more
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"I loved the pain, and the pain loved me back."-Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
26. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
By: Alex Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more
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27. Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything
By: Sally McRae
4.48
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
A REAL LOOK AT STRENGTH Known worldwide for her mental fortitude, hardcore training tactics, and… read more
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28. A Runner's High: My Life in Motion
By: Dean Karnazes
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
“A Runner’s High wakes up the appetite to run long distances. Dean takes us on a lifelong journey o… read more
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29. The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement
By: Shane Benzie
4.08
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
'Heads up – here's how to run like a pro' - The Times'A fascinating book' - Adharanand Finn, author… read more
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30. Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception
By: Matt Hart
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Game of Shadows meets Shoe Dog in this explosive behind-the-scenes look that reveals for the first … read more
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31. 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
By: Meb Keflezighi
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in … read more
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"To my classmates, teammates, teachers, coaches, and friends, and the people in the medical field who encouraged and challenged me to be my best in every aspect of life."-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
"Un mod prin care maratonul se deosebește de alte curse îl reprezintă faptul că lecțiile lui au deseori paralele cu restul vieții tale. Răbdarea necesară ca să stăpânești maratonul este o abilitate tr…"-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
