About the Book: Endure:Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human
Performance
How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential:
what defines a persons limits? From running a two-hour marathon to summiting
Mount Everest, were fascinated by the extremes of human endurance, constantly
testing both our physical and psychological limits. In Endure Alex Hutchinson,
Ph.D., reveals why our individual limits may be determined as much by our head
and heart, as by our muscles. He presents an overview of sciences search for
understanding human fatigue, from crude experiments with electricity and frogs
legs to sophisticated brain imaging technology. Going beyond