NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ‘Reveals how we may all surpass our perceived physical limits.’ -Adam Grant

Limitations are an illusion: a groundbreaking reserve that reveals the secrets of accessing your hidden extra potential

Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell

The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every field-from a 100-meter sprint to a 100-mile ultramarathon, from summiting Everest to acing final exams or completing any hard project. But about Endure: Brain, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Overall performance what if most of us can go farther, press harder, and achieve a lot more than we believe we’re with the capacity of?

Blending cutting-edge science and gripping storytelling in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell-who contributes the book’s foreword-award-winning journalist Alex Hutchinson uncovers a wave of paradigm-altering analysis over the past decade suggests the seemingly physical barriers you encounter as arranged as very much by the human brain as by your body. This means the mind is the new frontier of endurance-and that the horizons of performance are a lot more flexible than we once thought.

But, obviously, it’s not “all in your mind.” For each from the physical limits that Hutchinson explores-pain, muscles, oxygen, temperature, thirst, fuel-he properly disentangles the delicate interplay of mind and body by telling the riveting tales of women and men who’ve forced their own limitations in extraordinary methods.

The longtime “Perspiration Science” columnist for Outside and Runner’s World, Hutchinson, a former national-team long-distance runner and Cambridge-trained physicist, was one of only two reporters granted access to Nike’s top-secret training project to break the two-hour marathon barrier, an extreme quest he traces through the entire book. But the lessons he draws from shadowing top notch athletes and from traveling to high-tech labs all over the world are amazingly universal. Stamina, Hutchinson writes, is certainly “the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to avoid”-and we’re constantly capable of pressing a little further.