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(Bloomsbury), a cultural, scientific, and personal history of exercise.
Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear
and fads from HIIT to spin classes to hot yoga 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 <em>Sweat</em>, 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, dissecting the dynamics of human movement.
Hayes ties his own personal experience — and ours — to the cultural and
scientific history of exercise, from ancient times to the present day,
giving us a new way to understand its place in our lives in the
twenty-first century. In <em>The Secret to Superhuman Strength</em> (Mariner), comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel, author of <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://email.powells.com/t/l?ssid=41474&subscriber_id=aemzprillhitxkowyrghsezfuvllbmp&delivery_id=bqoyzmengxriyxtidynwhyksdlogbla&td=eOPadRVhDtj57YfC_7YrlwbyjDpxf_hrhNbhH30ZSVypOuDoWmZTFkJPs7Y1oRDkhMSMXhy6bJCM6F18H8LxjHvdvX_pZcaWcKgMVe_ZFoAVyG5qR0X0ASUP28TSqiriA6lwoQ-XYvcdyAVtviCZs9BwBDAjULRw3ntQ8U8juKlfBJ7LtHw2L9jqTHwL9mrnCRRZ7XNfRxE0Y6R0Mw_HA2NcIUJ_42vcVVTC-4xXuRpmzIQxmYGYcW1w__;!!KGKeukY!mmg0BwmgDDw-NwvUai5sH3ldzFIBmKOK5F9fLH7ktweGNMIQWgszGkMuwdd32knxdhWNawKlZDS8$" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><b>Fun Home</b></a>,
delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to
adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack
LaLanne in the ‘60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to
the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see
their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an
ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other
gear. But the more Bechdel tries to improve herself, the more her self
appears to be the thing in her way. This gifted artist and
not-getting-any-younger exerciser comes to a soulful conclusion. The
secret to superhuman strength lies not in six-pack abs, but in something
much less clearly defined: facing her own non-transcendent but
all-important interdependence with others. Hayes and Bechdel will be
joined in conversation by Bill Goldstein, book reviewer and author
interviewer for NBC's "Weekend Today in New York" and founding editor of
the books site of <em>The New York Time</em>s on the Web.</div></th></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></font>
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