Gather Survival Of The Fittest: The Anatomy Of Peak Physical Performance Compiled By Mike Stroud Readable In Version

but amazing read and incredibly captivating this book makes you long for running, exploring, going outside, In this fascinating book based soundly in medical science, Mike Stroud of BBC Television's The Challenge and SAS: Are You Tough Enough sets out the genetics, diet and exercise that enable humans to perform at their peak.
Dr Stroud polar explorer, practising hospital physician, and a former adviser to the Ministry of Defence analyses individual feats of survival and athletic prowess that illustrate the way the body functions at its best.
He dissects his own challenging experiences of crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes, running marathons in the Sahara and participating in gruelling crosscountry endurance races in the United States and gives some tips on how to stay fit for life for those of us who find walking the dog an endurance challenge.
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This revised edition includes the story of Dr Stroud and Sir Ranulph Fiennes' incredibleglobal marathon challenge seven marathons on seven continents in seven days in aid of the British Heart Foundation.
You don't only get to read about other people's sportive exploits, With this book, you also get to learn about your own extraordinary mental and physical capacities, how to read the sign your body sends you and when it is right to give in and when they are wrongly misleading as your body not always has it right.
I would recommend this book to everyone who is health concerned and enjoy exercising as a way to improve his daytoday life, A very much positive thinking and action book that provides concrete evidence that age is indeed mostly in one's head,
This is not just a book for those into endurance sports or extreme adventures to the poles, It is a book that will help you view the physiological make up of you body differently, appreciate the mental strength that we are all capable of and can tap into,should we will it so.
It also debunks, myths and beliefs we hold about what our body, its ills and how to get healthy, stay healthy, There really is no short cut and it really isn't that difficult to lead a healthier and active life, we were borned with all the right tools, we just need to stop abusing it, and do what we have evolved to do.
Simple written. Witty on times, a great read, This book has been sitting in my Kindle, waiting to be read for the longest time, After starting it I'm not sure why I waited so long, I loved the book, it's informative and very inspirational, As a species we really are capable of amazing things, so much more than most of us believe we could do, Mike Stroud explains why and how, with each chapter alternating between the science and his personal experience, making it a very interesting read, It's engaging and motivating. Highly recommended. Completely loved. A two day read mostly done at work sitting on my little kiosk at the farm, I constantly felt like i wanted to rip out of there and runmarathons indays just like he did maybe not oncontinents too much flying.
I know his words are gonna be ringing in my ears whenever I feel like giving up, And actually peng literature and learnt lots of medical advice anatomy, Love. Although I found it fascinating to read about the capabilities of the human body and the extreme physical challenges Stroud has completed, I couldn't help but notice how out of date some of the explanations were.
That said, it was written many years ago, probably before the information with which I am armed was even known by anyone so rather than being a direct criticism of the book, it's merely an explanation for why I did not enjoy it as much as I might have.
I believe this is a great book for those who like to understand physiological underpinning of the limits of the human body as well as those who like to read about adventure.
Super inspiring. Must read. I am going do ultra marathons thanks to this book, A truly excellent book that functions as an adventure novel, inspiration for how to age well, and a book on the science of extreme endurance.
I enjoyed this book, however I feel that some of the information and advice is now out of date and irrelevant,
The sections detailing the authors endurance challenges we're by far the most interesting, The science is a tad out of date, but the majority still holds firm, Excellent chapters on Stroud's unsupported attempt to walk the North Pole with Ranulph Fiennes, his following of Scott's Antarctic expedition etc interspersed between thematic chapters on man's evolution and how our post industrialised lifestyle is out of kilter with our evolution from active packlike animals, and how this inactivity leads to diabetes, heart disease and cancer This book was very interesting, and definitely reminded me that I need to read more books about big adventures, as those chapters were by far my favourite part of the book.

Stroud's discussion of the evolutionary basis of our body's relationship with food and exercise was presented in a clear way that made it easy to follow his logic.

I'd be interested to look up some of his more recent work should it exist!, as the copy of this book that I read is borrowed from my dad, and is nowyears old, so I'm sure Stroud has been involved in many other adventures and research projects since this book was written! Very inspirational! Loved the various anecdotes and also learnt a lot in the sections about Nutrition, Evolution and Physiology.
. . One of the first books that sparked my interest in extraordinary challenges and the innate human ability for extreme endurance, Brilliant. Aboutstory of amazing crazy endurance challenges that the author has been involved in anda good summary of exercise physiology from an evolutionary perspective.
Well written and researched, the author sees himself as the ultimate lab rat and shares his learning with us, He challenges the reader to understand the enormous endurance capacity of the human body, a feature that is shared by everyday people not just by specially gifted individuals.


As someone who has studied much of this stuff at University, I didn't find the physiology sections as interesting as newcomers to the topic would.
I can however vouch for them being good summaries that stack up, This is an odd sort of book, with on the face of it quite a narrow audience, To properly enjoy it you have to be a the sort of person who enjoys tales of human endurance, and b interested in the detail of evolutionary biology and sports physiology.
If you DO tick both of those boxes, then this is definitely for you, The author tells tales of his own endurance adventures, including ultra marathons in the Sahara and treks to the Poles, and uses the extreme impacts they had on the bodies of he and his companions to illustrate the theories of evolutionary adaptation that make up the other third of the book.
Stroud tells excellent stories, and his own adventures are colourful and vivid, While a little onesided in places, the science of what kind of animal the human being is and why is also very clearly mapped, While there are small details here and there that are debatable, Stroud is balanced enough to point most of these out as he goes, and at least references the counterpoints even if he doesn't delve into them in the same detail as the perspectives he himself is most interested in.
Overall, the book stands well as a fascinating and demonstrated narrative of what the human body is for, and why it so often goes wrong in the modern age.
Despite being a few years old now, the science and physiology is still so relevant, and he shows considerable foresight in places regarding discoveries that have only recently come to light.
Also, what a complete nutter! His muscles physically breaking down due to trying to runmarathons indays, Why didn't they hire a Kenyan
In terms of ease of reading, the expedition sections are smoother going than the in depth physiology, but these are nicely placed within the thread of his own experiences other than the wooly mammoth hunting I dont think that was from pers.
obs. , so you can see the experiments in progress in a sense, Nice book, worth a read, Fantastic book you surely convince yourself that you should get your butt off

that chair and move, move move, Very motivating stop the what if and focus on the why not loved it Survival of the Fittest getsfor me,
The facts in here have fuelled conversation on several social bikes rides and runs, It really is great to see some text that promotes fitness in later life I don't consider myself to be old, but I'm looking forward to remaining active when I get there.


Read it. Be inspired. Stay fit and active. Thoroughly enjoyed it. A really good read packed full of adventure, entertainment and cool science, There is than one author by this name on Goodreads, .