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Información de la obraExercised: The science of physical activity, rest and health por Daniel Lieberman
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent book looking at why we need exercise and why we naturally try to avoid it, using genetics, anthropology, anatomy, and biology to explain. Not terrifically complex, but I never felt I was being talked down to. Nicely structured with plenty of humor and asides to lighten things up. Not a self-help book, his recommendations are fairly vague and he doesn’t present some complex exercise regime - he ends the book with “Make exercise necessary and fun. Do mostly cardio, but also some weights. Some is better than none. Keep it up as you age.” In this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise--to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, Lieberman recounts without jargon how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion. Exercised is entertaining and enlightening but also constructive. As our increasingly sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases such as diabetes, Lieberman audaciously argues that to become more active we need to do more than medicalize and commodify exercise. Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology, Lieberman suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable, rather than shaming and blaming people for avoiding it. He also tackles the question of whether you can exercise too much, even as he explains why exercise can reduce our vulnerability to the diseases mostly likely to make us sick and kill us. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"This highly engaging landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity and inactivity, even as each chapter shatters a particular myth about exercise. Because we cannot understand physical activity without understanding its absence, Part One begins with physical inactivity. What are our bodies doing when we take it easy, including when we sit or sleep? Part Two explores physical activities that require speed, strength, and power, such as sprinting, lifting, and fighting. Part Three surveys physical activities that involve endurance, such as walking, running, or dancing, as well as their effect on aging. Part Four considers how anthropological and evolutionary approaches can help us exercise better in the modern world. How can we more effectively manage to exercise, and in what ways? To what extent, how, and why do different types and durations of exercise help prevent or treat the major diseases that are likely to make us sick and kill us? -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book is full of information and tips that will help people to exercise. The majority of us do not want to exercise and would rather sit around. That is because this is how we evolved. Can you imagine asking a group of Hadza people to exercise at the end of their day? It turns out they do slightly more moderate to vigorous exercise than us but they keep doing it until they are much older than us. The older men still go out to hunt and the older women do more of the digging for tubers and cooking than the younger, child-rearing women. So, the real lesson here is do some exercise and keep doing it. Don't stop.
There are other bits of information such as the muscle strengthens more when extending not contracting, that we should be doing some weights to keep muscles powerful. Walking is fine to help lose weight it is just that most of us don't do enough of it - about an hour a day is needed. Exercise helps with a lot of modern day illnesses, depression, obesity, cancer and the list goes on.
The end of the book sums it up really.
Make exercise necessary and fun. Do mostly cardio, but also some weights. Some is better than none. Keep it up as you age.
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Four sentences to live by! ( )