Survival Of The Fittest
The Anatomy of Peak Physical Performance
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2004
Summary
Definitive exploration into understanding health and peak physical performance, now fully updated to include the Global 7 Marathons in 7 Days with Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
Discover the secrets of how to perform at your best.
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.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224075077 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0224075071 |
| Author: | Mike Stroud |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
Illuminating… Mike Stroud, an Arctic explorer, medic and marathon-runner, explains how modern life-styles and diet have made us prone to a new array of diseases unknown until the industrial revolution. Demonstrating why it is essential for us to exercise, he also provides useful guidelines for changing our culturally-moulded bad habits’ * Mail on Sunday *
The ultimate sporting diet documented in mouth-watering detail * The Times *
About The Author
Mike Stroud
Mike Stroud is a medic, doctor, and recent adviser to the Ministry of Defence on survival. He teamed up with Sir Ranulph Fiennes in 1986 for the first of their three attempts to journey on foot to the North Pole unaided. In 1993, he was awarded the O.B.E. for his part in the first unsupported crossing of the Arctic continent from coast to coast.
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