{"product_id":"sweat-a-history-of-exercise-paperback","title":"Sweat: A History of Exercise - Paperback","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'I was riveted by\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Sweat \u003c\/i\u003eand its extraordinary tale of the ups and downs of exercise over millennia' Jane Fonda\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'A delight ... You're in for a treat' Alison Bechdel, author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Secret to Superhuman Strength\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e_________________________\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInsomniac City\u003c\/i\u003e 'who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did' (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle)\u003c\/i\u003e: a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads to prove it. Exercise - a form of physical activity distinct from sports, play, or athletics - was an ancient obsession, too, but as a chapter in human history, it's been largely overlooked. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSweat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Bill Hayes runs, jogs, swims, spins, walks, bikes, boxes, lifts, sweats, and downward-dogs his way through the origins of different forms of exercise, chronicling how they have evolved over time, and dissecting the dynamics of human movement. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHippocrates, Plato, Galen, Susan B. Anthony, Jack LaLanne, and Jane Fonda, among many others, make appearances in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSweat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, but chief among the historical figures is Girolamo Mercuriale, a Renaissance-era Italian physician who aimed singlehandedly to revive the ancient Greek \"art of exercising\" through his 1569 book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDe arte gymnastica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. In the pages of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSweat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Mercuriale and his illustrated treatise are vividly brought back to life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003easHayes ties his own personal experience to the cultural and scientific history of exercise, from ancient times to the present day, he gives us a new way to understand its place in our lives in the 21st century.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39679286902850,"sku":null,"price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/9781526638397.jpg?v=1642789931","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/sweat-a-history-of-exercise-paperback","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}