Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

Award-winning journalist, Alex Hutchinson divulges research from the past decade that suggests that the physical barriers we encounter are set as much by the brain as they are by the body. With a forward from Malcolm Gladwell, this book teaches us how the mind is the frontier of endurance and the horizons of performance are far more elastic than what we thought.

In the book, Hutchinson explores the physical limits of fuel, thirst, muscle, heat, pain and oxygen, disentangling the interplay of mind and body by sharing incredible stories of people who have pushed their limits in amazing ways.

Hutchinson was once a national long-distance runner and is a physicist. He was one of the lucky reporters permitted access to Nike’s highly secretive training project on how to break the two-hour marathon barrier, a quest he takes us through in the book in an effort encourage you to break your barriers.