Why the Pain, What's the Gain? (eBook)

The quest for extreme fitness

Daniel Kunitz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
288 Seiten
Aurum (Verlag)
978-1-78131-610-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Running, jumping, lifting, pushing, stretching our bodies are naturally built to move and work, strengthen and adapt. Yet the gym is a 20th century phenomenon and working outa concept that has produced one of the worlds biggest industries: fitness. An industry whose changing ideals reflect societys cultural shifts on what it means to be fit, and how to have the perfect physique.Why the Pain? Whats the Gain?takes you on a guided tour of humankinds 3000-year wayward search for the perfect workout; from the dirt courtyards of the ancient Greek gymnasium to the birth of the modern gym in 19th-century Paris; to the weekend, beachside Olympic-caliber gymnasts of Santa Monica and Sydney. Daniel Kunitz seeks the answer to a simple yet profound question: Why do we work out?We will listen in on the innovators and charlatans who lifted the multibillion-dollar business of gym-fitness into being. We will learn how the womens movement sparked an enormous exercise boom and tell the story not only of how we arrived at the big-box gym era but also of the last decades acceleration into a new fitness frontier.Daniel Kunitz puts himself through the grit and pain of the cross fit, parkour and tough mudder regimes, searching not just for new-found physique, but on a quest to understand the pain and more precisely the gain of working out.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.3.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Ernährung / Diät / Fasten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: Body • Fitness • Greek gymnasium • Gym • gym-fitness • Jumping • Lifting • Olympic gymnasts • Pushing • Running • Stretching
• ISBN-10: 1-78131-610-4 / 1781316104
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78131-610-8 / 9781781316108