Paradox of exercises. Scientific perspective on physical activity, rest, and health

A fascinating book, after reading which you not only look differently at the exercises (as well as sleep, running, strength training, games, fights, walks and even dancing), but you will also understand that it is not enough for the fight against obesity and diabetes it is not enough to do it sports.

If physical exercises are useful, why do most avoids them? If we are born to run and walk, why are we trying to move as little as possible? Is a sedentary lifestyle really a new smoking? Does the run killing and what is more useful - cardio or strength training?

Daniel Lieberman, a professor of evolutionary biology from Harvard and one of the most famous researchers of the evolution of human physical activity, tells how we evolved, running, walking, digging and doing others - often forced - "exercises", and not engaged in real exercises , that is, voluntary physical activity for health.

For whom the book
For lovers to exercise their antipodes exercise and their antipodes.

For everyone who wants to figure out what role physical exercises play in our health.

For everyone who wants to look at the nature of man and reflect on what a person wants to become.

About the author
Daniel Lieberman - Paleoanthropologist, Doctor of Biological Sciences. The head of the Skeleton Biology Laboratory, Professor of Biological Sciences and Department of Human Evolution at Harvard University.

Studies of Dr. Lieberman combine paleontology, anatomy, physiology and experimental biomechanics. In the scientific community, he is known for revolutionary discoveries in the evolution of the human body.

A graduate of Harvard and Cambridge Universities. Laureate 10 scientific awards, author of 150 scientific publications. In his free time, Dr. Lieberman is an avid marathon, and sometimes runs barefoot, for which he received the nickname "Boar Professor"