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Born to Walk

The Broken Promises of the Running Boom, and How to Slow Down and Get Healthy—One Step at a Time

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Born to Walk

By: Mark Sisson, Brad Kearns
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The romanticized notion that humans are "born to run" has buoyed the so-called running boom of the past 50 years: well-intentioned fitness enthusiasts lacing up their cushioned shoes and plodding down roads and trails in pursuit of the runner high, a trim physique, and the fountain of youth. Unfortunately, born to run is a big, fat ruse—a marketing gimmick and a gross misappropriation of evolutionary biology insights about our Homo sapiens genetic attributes for endurance. While any movement away from a sedentary-dominant lifestyle is laudable, the truth is that humans are actually born to walk, not run.

For the vast majority of enthusiasts, running—even slow-paced jogging—is far too physically, metabolically, and hormonally stressful to promote health, weight loss, or longevity. Alas, the elevated, heavily cushioned modern running shoe enables ill-adapted people to run with poor technique, increased impact trauma, and a truly embarrassing rate of chronic overuse injuries.

Born to Walk will help reshape fitness culture to reject flawed and dated "no pain, no gain" ideals, and replace them with a simple, accessible, sustainable program to increase general everyday movement, improve aerobic conditioning the right way, avoid the risks of injury and burnout associated with running, and promote a healthy, happy, energetic, long life–one step at a time.

You'll learn:

*How our genetic endurance gifts are buried under excess fat, insufficient activity, weak musculature, and dysfunctional feet

*How the running boom was enabled by the heavily cushioned shoe, which enabled poorly adapted people to run

*How elevated, cushioned shoes are the driving cause of overuse injuries

*How running does not help you lose excess body fat

*How running can promote the accumulation of health-destructive abdominal fat

*How the struggle & suffer ethos of modern running culture can promote an unhealthy obsession

*How to identify your ideal training pace using "fat max" heart rate

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Mark Sisson with Brad Kearns (P)2024 Mark Sisson with Brad Kearns
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This book is full of fantastic information without being overwhelming. Not only do they give you information, they give you practical ways to apply. Worth the purchase.

A Wealth Of Information In An Easily Explained Way

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Enjoyed this informative book. I have began my walking journey just two months ago. I believe I will have great success with the valuable information provided by this book.

Great

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Done very well. I am a creationist, and the continual references to millions+ years and how man evolved were very distracting to me. I differ in that I believe God gave us all these wonderful abilities mentioned in the book from the outset. Especially the intricate and delicately balanced scientific processes mentioned require too much faith to be an evolutionist.

Good book

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I like the information that has been provided as new information . Thanks for the info.

Consistent chat

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Well presented, well documented and enjoyable!! I would recommend this book to everyone!! Loved both the authors, glad they were the ones to narrate the book!

Loved the humor

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This is a good book about running. The dangers of it, how high endurance athletic feats aren’t healthy, and how you’re damaging your body gradually with high intensity prolonged workouts.

And by the way, walking is good. Seriously, this book is 90% about running. Walking is a mere footnote. It seems like the aim of the book is to scare you out of running, leaving walking as the only sensible alternative.

Sisson and Kearns are very smart, do their research, and deliver a compendium of information. But to say this is a book about walking is merely a marketing scheme.

Isn’t this supposed to be about walking?

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Basically a book about someone walking. Total dud do not waste your time or money

Don’t waste your money.

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This book is NOT about being Born to Walk. This book is only about running, training, numerous drills, running, science based testing for running, improving stats, running and more running drills. What do you do when you overtrain all the time to the point where you are injured? THEN you Walk. Brad Kearns narration is the most grating I've ever experienced. He does not possess the ability to string two words together. Each. Word. Is. Punctuated. Before. Moving. On. To. The. Next. It. Is. So. Frustrating. To. Listen. To. Just spit it out already! This book should be an hour shorter than it is due to his delivery. I gave it 2 stars because it is OK if you are a runner, otherwise, skip it.

Serious Runners/Athletes ONLY

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