更强壮：肌肉在我们生活中的不为人知的故事 Stronger：The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives

基本信息

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion

Imprint:W&N

ISBN:9781399633338

Published:13 Mar 2025

Classifications:Biology, life sciences

Weight:581g

Dimensions:232 x 152 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

“即使你从未举过重物，强壮也适合你”——阿诺德·施瓦辛格

无论你如何看待自己——强或弱、大或小——你本质上都是由肌肉构成的。直到你生命的结束的一天，你能否站立起来并前往你想去的地方，你在世界上的能动性和效力，都将取决于它。但是肌肉是什么？

从荷马史诗《伊利亚特》中的战场（肌肉初次出现在世界文学中），到维多利亚时代的体育馆（妇女通过举重来锻炼力量和肌肉），再到波士顿的养老院，在那里一位年轻的医生发现高强度的训练可以让虚弱的九十岁老人和三十岁人获得相同的相对收益，《Stronger》以惊人的新视角展示了我们肌肉的科学和重要性。

古代将智力与体力对立起来，造成了对肌肉的长期偏见，也导致了对能增强力量的锻炼方式的偏见。

然而研究证明，重量训练可以帮助预防或治疗许多慢性疾病和残疾，包括抑郁症、癌症和糖尿病。我们所有人，无论是举重运动员还是从未参加过体育运动的普通人，都可以通过学习举重来获得人生的奖励：在世界上采取行动的能力。

'Even if you've never picked up a weight, Stronger is for you' - Arnold Schwarzenegger

No matter how you think of yourself - strong or weak, large or small - you are substantially made of muscle. To the last day of your life, your ability to stand and go where you want to go, your agency and effectiveness in the world, will depend on it. But what is muscle?

From the battlefields of Homer's Iliad, where muscles first entered world literature, to the Victorian-era gymnasiums where women built strength and muscle by lifting heavy weights, to a retirement home in Boston, where a young doctor discovered that training at high intensity can produce the same relative gains for frail ninety-year-olds as for thirty-year-olds, Stronger places the science and significance of our muscles in an astonishing new light.

Ancient binaries of brain versus brawn created an enduring prejudice against muscle, and against the type of exercise that best builds strength.

Yet the research proves that weight training can help prevent or treat many chronic diseases and disabilities throughout life, including depression, cancer, and diabetes. All of us, from elite powerlifters to people who have never played sports at all, can learn to lift weights in ways that yield life's ultimate prize: the ability to act in the world.

作者简介

迈克尔·约瑟夫·格罗斯长期担任《名利场》特约编辑，发表过有关文化、科技、政治、和商业的调查报道、散文和书籍。他在伊利诺伊州农村长大，现居住在纽约市。

A longtime Vanity Fair contributing editor, Michael Joseph Gross has published investigative reporting, essays, and books about culture, technology, politics and business. He was raised in rural Illinois and lives in New York City.