锻炼 英文原版 Exercised:Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding DanielLieberman

基本信息

Format Paperback | 464 pages

Dimensions 132 x 203 x 22mm | 431g

Publication date 07 Dec 2021

Publisher Random House USA Inc

Language English

ISBN10 052543478X

ISBN13 9780525434788

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

如果运动是健康的（对你有好处！），为什么许多人不喜欢或避免运动？这些引人入胜的故事和解释将彻底改变你对运动的看法--更不用说坐着、睡觉、冲刺、举重、玩耍、打架、走路、慢跑，甚至跳舞。

"在学术、智慧和热情之间取得了平衡"。--比尔-布莱森，《纽约时报》畅销书《身体》作者

- 如果我们生来就是为了走路和跑步，为什么我们中的大多数人只要有可能就会放松？

- 跑步会毁了你的膝盖吗？

- 我们应该做举重、有氧运动，还是高强度训练？

- 坐着真的是新的吸烟吗？

- 你能通过步行减肥吗？

- 我们如何理解被轰炸的关于休息、体育活动和锻炼的相互矛盾、令人焦虑的信息？

在这本打破神话的书中，哈佛大学人类进化生物学教授、人类身体活动进化的先驱研究者丹尼尔-利伯曼讲述了我们是如何进化到运动的--为了健康而自愿进行身体活动。利伯曼利用自己的研究和在世界各地的经验，不厌其烦地讲述了人类是如何以及为什么会进化到走路、跑步、挖掘以及做其他必要的、有益的身体活动，同时避免不必要的劳累。

《锻炼》具有娱乐性和启发性，但也具有建设性。由于我们日益久坐的生活方式导致了肥胖症和糖尿病等疾病发病率的飙升，利伯曼大胆地认为，要想变得更加积极，我们需要做的不仅仅是将运动医疗化和商品化。

利伯曼从进化生物学和人类学的角度出发，建议我们如何使运动变得更加愉快，而不是羞辱和指责人们逃避运动。他还解决了运动量是否过大的问题，甚至解释了为什么运动可以减少我们对那些最可能使我们生病和死亡的疾病的脆弱性。

If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising--not to mention sitting, sleeping, sprinting, weight lifting, playing, fighting, walking, jogging, and even dancing.

"Strikes a perfect balance of scholarship, wit, and enthusiasm." --Bill Bryson, New York Times best-selling author of The Body

- If we are born to walk and run, why do most of us take it easy whenever possible?

- Does running ruin your knees?

- Should we do weights, cardio, or high-intensity training?

- Is sitting really the new smoking?

- Can you lose weight by walking?

- And how do we make sense of the conflicting, anxiety-inducing information about rest, physical activity, and exercise with which we are bombarded?

In this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise--to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, Lieberman recounts without jargon how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion.

Exercised is entertaining and enlightening but also constructive. As our increasingly sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases such as diabetes, Lieberman audaciously argues that to become more active we need to do more than medicalize and commodify exercise.

Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology, Lieberman suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable, rather than shaming and blaming people for avoiding it. He also tackles the question of whether you can exercise too much, even as he explains why exercise can reduce our vulnerability to the diseases mostly likely to make us sick and kill us.

作者简介

丹尼尔-E-利伯曼是哈佛大学生物科学的埃德温-M-莱纳教授和人类进化生物学教授。他是全国畅销书《人体的故事：进化、健康和疾病》和《锻炼》的作者。为什么我们从未进化过的事情是健康的，而且是后发的。他住在马萨诸塞州的剑桥市。

DANIEL E. LIEBERMAN is Edwin M. Lerner Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He is the author of the national best seller The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease and Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rearding. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.