Natural Born Heroes
The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
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Publisher Description
AS HEARD ON THE CHRIS EVANS BREAKFAST SHOW - "It's not just for runners. It's for life! It's a great story."
When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special.
To beat the odds, the tricksters-starving, aging, outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness: the lost art of heroism. They listened to their instincts, replaced calories with stored bodily fat and used their fascia, the network of tissue which criss-crosses the body, to catapult themselves to superhuman strength and endurance.
Soon McDougall was in the middle of a modern fitness revolution taking place everywhere from Parisian parkour routes to state-of-the-art laboratories, and based on the know-how of Shanghai street-fighters and Wild West gunslingers. Just as Born to Run got runners off the treadmill and into nature, Natural Born Heroes will inspire casual athletes to dump the gym membership for cross-training, mud runs and free-running.
Customer Reviews
Heroic Effort
I bought this as I was in mourning having recently finished and throughly enjoyed Born to Run. I was skeptical as I knew it wasn’t going to be as running focused as that book, but having read the first chapter, I was utterly immersed. Absolutely amazing stories which like Born to Run are weaved together perfectly making it a book you can’t put down. Not ashamed to admit I shed a tear at the climax of the book. On a par with Born to Run.