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Cargando... The Perfection Point: Sport Science Predicts the Fastest Man, the Highest Jump, and the Limits of Athletic Performancepor John Brenkus
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Fun to read, but why did the author ignore 50% of the population? Women play sports, too! ( ) This could be the funnest book on sports speculation ever written. Lively and interesting and fun and detailed and easy-to-grasp discussions on what's theoretically possible at the upper limit of sports achievement. I would not have minded a bit more in the technical discussion area, but what was brought to the table certainly sufficed. Recommended for anyone who holds spectacular sports achievements in awe. Attempts to predict the best possibilities in various sports. Didn't read all of the chapters except the events that most interest me, i.e. fastest possible 100m, swim freestyle, marathon etc. Didn't really like how it fictionalised the possible future events but the analysis of what it takes to physically achieve a result was very interesting and I've never seen such discussion before. Worth a random access read! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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What's the fastest a human can run the 100-meter sprint? What's the longest a human can hold his breath? What are the limits of human performance? Until 1954, common wisdom and scientific knowledge considered a sub-four-minute mile an impossible feat--but today the world record stands at 3 minutes, 43 seconds. Records are a mark of how well people have done, not how well they can do. What's the actual limit? In this thought-provoking book, John Brenkus, co-creator of ESPN's Sport Science, ventures across the sports world to provide an in-depth look at the absolute limits of human performance. Beginning with the current world records for a variety of sports, Brenkus finds the perfection point for each--the speeds, heights, distances, and times that humans will get closer to but never exceed.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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