The sports gene : inside the science of extraordinary athletic performance
Epstein, David J., 1983-2013
Book
In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance genes might have traveled with them from East Africa. At the same time, I began to notice that a training group on my team could consist of five men who run next to one another, stride for stride, day after day, and nonetheless turn out five entirely different runners. How could this be?
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Imprint:
New York : Penguin Group, c2013.
Collation:
xiv, 338 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1.Beat by an Underhand Girl -- The Gene-Free Model of Expertise -- 2.A Tale of Two High Jumpers -- (Or: 10,000 Hours Plus or Minus 10,000 Hours) -- 3.Major League Vision and the Greatest Child Athlete Sample Ever -- The Hardware and Software Paradigm -- 4.Why Men Have Nipples -- 5.The Talent of Trainability -- 6.Superbaby, Bully Whippets, and the Trainability of Muscle -- 7.The Big Bang of Body Types -- 8.The Vitruvian NBA Player -- 9.We Are All Black (Sort Of) -- Race and Genetic Diversity -- 10.The Warrior-Slave Theory of Jamaican Sprinting -- 11.Malaria and Muscle Fibers -- 12.Can Every Kalenjin Run? -- 13.The World's Greatest Accidental (Altitudinous) Talent Sieve -- 14.Sled Dogs, Ultrarunners, and Couch Potato Genes -- 15.The Heartbreak Gene Death, Injury, and Pain on the Field -- 16.The Gold Medal Mutation.
ISBN:
9781591845119 (hbk)1591845114 (hbk)
Dewey class:
613.71
Language:
English
BRN:
196445
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