Faster, Higher, Stronger
How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--and What We Can Learn from Them
by Mark McClusky · first published 2014
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Veteran journalist Mark McClusky brings readers behind the scenes with a new generation of athletes, coaches, and scientists whose accomplishments are changing our understanding of human physical achievement and completely redefining the limits of the human body.
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This is a very good article. The reference to the newly published book Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--and What We Can Learn from Them by Mark McClusky prompted me to request that book from my friendly public library. I like how the article…
on “Getting Better at Getting Better” ↗Not in professional sports, see http://www.amazon.com/Faster-Higher-Stronger-Generation-Supe... or http://www.amazon.com/Sports-Gene-Extraordinary-Athletic-Per... (similar ideas in both books)
on “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent (2014)” ↗…https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247625/ec... (Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton; ISBN13: 9780691247625) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313644/faster-highe... (Faster, Higher, Stronger: The New Science of Creating Superathletes, and How You Can Train Like Them by Mark McClusky; ISBN13: 9780147516473) https://www.ianyoungwrites.com/the-automaton (The Automaton by Ian Young; ISBN13:…
on “Ask HN: What did you read recently? Preferably long form, non-tech” ↗As "Faster, Higher, Stronger..." author explains, doping wouldn't level the field for everybody since drugs affect people very differently. The concept of "fairness" is arbitrary, he mentions the use of altitude tents for example…
on “The Moral Argument for Doping in Sports” ↗I was surprised at the book promoted at the end. I was positive this was going to a revised excerpt from Faster, Higher, Stronger by Mark McClucsky.
on “Should we all be looking for marginal gains?” ↗I felt the same way. The sport optimizations I felt like we're from Faster, Higher, Stronger. The hot dogs I read about in the chapter on outsiders and innovation, maybe in a Freakonomics book. I know I read the hospital and checklists before too.
on “Should we all be looking for marginal gains?” ↗"Faster, Higher, Stronger" book showed a study where athletes were asked what they would give up for an Olympic gold medal and from what I remember a good portion would give up their lives in 5 years for that (or some other crazy…
on “Why winners become cheaters” ↗