Survival Of The Fittest
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407071060
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Survival Of The Fittest

The Anatomy of Peak Physical Performance

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1 Aug 2011
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15 Aug 2004
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Definitive exploration into understanding health and peak physical performance, now fully updated to include the Global 7 Marathons in 7 Days with Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Discover the secrets of how to perform at your best in 2019

In this fascinating book based soundly in medical science, Mike Stroud - of BBC Television's The Challenge and SAS: Are You Tough Enough? - sets out the genetics, diet and exercise that enable humans to perform at their peak. Dr Stroud - polar explorer, practising hospital physician, and a former adviser to the Ministry of Defence - analyses individual feats of survival and athletic prowess that illustrate the way the body functions at its best. He dissects his own challenging experiences of crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes, running marathons in the Sahara and participating in gruelling cross-country endurance races in the United States and gives some tips on how to stay fit for life for those of us who find walking the dog an endurance challenge...

This revised edition includes the story of Dr Stroud and Sir Ranulph Fiennes' incredible 2003 global marathon challenge - seven marathons on seven continents in seven days - in aid of the British Heart Foundation.

'The ultimate sporting diet documented in mouth-watering detail' The Times
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407071060
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Mike Stroud

Mike Stroud is a medic, doctor, and recent advisor to the Ministry of Defence on survival. He teamed up with Sir Ranulph Fiennes in 1986 for the first of their three attempts to journey on foot to the North Poles unaided. In 1993 he was awarded the O. B. E. for his part in the first unsupported crossing of the Arctic continent from coast to coast.

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Illuminating... Mike Stroud, an Arctic explorer, medic and marathon-runner, explains how modern life-styles and diet have made us prone to a new array of diseases unknown until the industrial revolution. Demonstrating why it is essential for us to exercise, he also provides useful guidelines for changing our culturally-moulded bad habits'

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The ultimate sporting diet documented in mouth-watering detail

The Times