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Book Recommendations From a Physical Therapist and Educator
The Best Books I Read in 2022
I hope you are having an outstanding start to the new year. If you have a reading challenge (highly recommend one; track it through Good Reads), you may be looking for some recommendations. Here are my top books from 2022.
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
This book explores how we are able to push our bodies to their endurance limits, and then some. The book is packed with studies, interviews with field experts, and stories from all areas of endurance, including running, cycling, and mountain climbing. If you want to better understand how the body maximizes endurance potential and the balance between biological principles (such as VO2 max) and psychological (effort) then you must read this book. I highly recommend it for all athletes, physios, trainers, and anyone else working in the healthcare or fitness industries.
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
The sports gene provides tremendous insights into training and performance. Epstein explores the nature (genes)…
