Christopher Mcdougall

O mais surpreendente best-seller do ano começa com uma simples pergunta: porque me dói o pé? Christopher McDougall estava de volta ao médico com mais uma lesão. É o início de uma aventura épica. A procura de respostas leva-o a investigar a história de uma tribo lendária, os Tarahumara, refugiada no mais inóspito canyon mexicano - e que ali sobrevivem, há séculos, graças à sua extraordinário capacidade de correr longas distâncias, centenas de quilómetros, sem nunca parar. Com a ajuda de um misterioso corredor, Cavallo Branco, o autor descobre essa misteriosa raça de superatletas, que vivem numa sociedade onde a doença foi praticamente erradicada, e a corrida, a pé descalço, é o segredo de uma vida longa. Em ritmo trepidante, o autor alterna as suas viagens ao México com a história dos cartéis de droga que perseguem os Tarahumara, fala da ciência da corrida, dos lobbis das marcas de desporto - e de como os caríssimos ténis da Nike nos podem provocar as mais graves lesões.

Nascidos Para Correr

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.

How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

Natural Born Heroes

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