Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age - Couverture rigide

Bercovici, Jeff

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 054480998X ISBN 13 : 9780544809987

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018

Synopsis

A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of “peak age.”

Season after season, today’s sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably sideline their competitors. How much of the difference is genetic destiny and how much can be attributed to better training, medicine and technology? Is athletic longevity a skill that can be taught, or a mental discipline that can be mastered? Can career-ending injuries be predicted and avoided?

 

Journalist Jeff Bercovici spent extensive time with professional and Olympic athletes, coaches and doctors to find the answers to these questions. His quest led him to training camps, tournaments, hospitals, anti-aging clinics and Silicon Valley startups, where he tried out cutting-edge treatments and technologies firsthand and investigated the realities behind health fads like alkaline diets, high-intensity interval training, and cryotherapy. Through fascinating profiles and first-person anecdotes, Bercovici illuminates the science and strategies extending the careers of elite older athletes, uncovers the latest advances in fields from nutrition to brain science to virtual reality, and offers empowering insights about how the rest of us can find peak performance at any age.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

JEFF BERCOVICI is a journalist, sports fan, and athlete, very much in that order. He is currently the San Francisco bureau chief for Inc., covering tech and entrepreneurship, and a former senior editor and writer at Forbes, where he reported from the Green Bay Packers’ training camp. He has also written for Playboy, GQ, Details, Glamour, and the New York Times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 054480998X
• ISBN 13: 9780544809987
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: HarperCollins Publishers Ireland; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irlande