Book · 2014 · Athletes
Faster, Higher, Stronger
How Sports Science is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes-- and what We Can Learn from Them
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Erik Torenberg the premise of the books are that there's been massive improvement in athletic performance due to our bette… 5
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“the premise of the books are that there's been massive improvement in athletic performance due to our better understanding our body and how they can be trained as best I can tell”
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“so um so are great athletes born you have you have you have some interesting examples in the book of where genetics seemed seemed pretty powerful”
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“what you described in the book as you know some of the state-of-the-art training now is unrecognizable to me I talked about what some of the some of the pro athletes now sure”
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“and if you haven't mentioned what Australia is doing that came up in the book repeatedly yeah I mean it's Australia really”
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“I god only knows where I'll end up then you're in the book the odds of playing in the NBA go up massively with each inch so if you're if you're seven feet tall”
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“he's just written a book faster higher stronger brought people around here like books like this because it looks a little bit like Ben Horowitz his book”
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“you know I got a chance to meet Ashton Eaton who's the world record holder in the decathlon for this book and we actually went for a run and we ran like two miles”
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“but one of the people I was talking to for the book his name's Andy Walsh she runs Red Bull actually runs this giant high-performance athletic program”
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“yeah I don't know I mean it's um so near the end of the book and the last chapter is on the limits of performance and Mark Denny who's another Stanford guy or at this kind of amazing paper”