Good to Go by Christie Aschwanden
An eye-opening, myth-busting exploration of how the human body can best recover and adapt to sports and fitness training. In recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves, foam rollers, electrical muscle stimulators, and sleep trackers. In Good to Go, acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden takes listeners on an entertaining and enlightening tour through this strange world. She investigates whether drinking Gatorade or beer after training helps or hinders performance, she examines the latest trends among athletes-from NFL star Tom Brady's infrared pajamas to gymnast Simone Biles's pneumatic compression boots to swimmer Michael Phelps's cupping ritual-and she tests some of the most controversial methods herself, including cryochambers, floatation tanks, and infrared saunas. At a time when the latest recovery products and services promise so much, Good to Go seeks answers to the fundamental question: do any of them actually help the body recover and achieve peak performance?
"Authoritative, delightful, and much-needed" -- Ed Yong, best-selling author of I Contain Multitudes
"Christie Aschwanden makes the mind-boggling world of sports recovery a hilarious adventure, and she mixes science with stories that everyone can relate to." -- Jessie Diggins, member of the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team
"The question of how to best adapt to and benefit from training is still fraught with confusion.… Christie Aschwanden offers much-needed clarity on the subject in Good to Go." -- Becky Wade - Runner’s World
"Skeptical and precise but also immensely enjoyable… a tour de force of great science journalism." -- Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise
"The most important book about training you’ll read this year." -- Alex Hutchinson, best-selling author of Endure
"An intelligent and entertaining tour of fitness research for anyone who exercises, with clear advice on what actually works to aid recovery." -- Julia Belluz - Vox
"When a work like this is written by one of the best science writers in the world, there is much to learn not only from the way [Christie Aschwanden] combines narrative with a clear synthesis of what the scientific evidence actually supports, but also about how the world of sports recovery can teach us something more fundamental about human nature." -- Jonathan Wai - Psychology Today
"A useful introduction to how scientific research works—and why, in sports science, it often doesn’t. Such insights make Good to Go appealing to more than just gym rats and weekend warriors. It’s for anyone who wonders how scientific studies happen, and how they influence the claims on products found in grocery stores and athletic stores alike." -- Bethany Brookshire - ScienceNews
"Absorbing.… Aschwanden separates the facts from the hype in the realm of athletic recovery, dispensing welcome doses of common sense." -- David Takami - Seattle Times
"An amusing and exhaustive takedown of the recovery products and trends that fitness enthusiasts have transformed into a multibillion-dollar industry." -- Andrea Gawrylewski - Scientific American
"Christie Aschwanden makes the mind-boggling world of sports recovery a hilarious adventure, and she mixes science with stories that everyone can relate to." -- Jessie Diggins, member of the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team
"The question of how to best adapt to and benefit from training is still fraught with confusion.… Christie Aschwanden offers much-needed clarity on the subject in Good to Go." -- Becky Wade - Runner’s World
"Skeptical and precise but also immensely enjoyable… a tour de force of great science journalism." -- Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise
"The most important book about training you’ll read this year." -- Alex Hutchinson, best-selling author of Endure
"An intelligent and entertaining tour of fitness research for anyone who exercises, with clear advice on what actually works to aid recovery." -- Julia Belluz - Vox
"When a work like this is written by one of the best science writers in the world, there is much to learn not only from the way [Christie Aschwanden] combines narrative with a clear synthesis of what the scientific evidence actually supports, but also about how the world of sports recovery can teach us something more fundamental about human nature." -- Jonathan Wai - Psychology Today
"A useful introduction to how scientific research works—and why, in sports science, it often doesn’t. Such insights make Good to Go appealing to more than just gym rats and weekend warriors. It’s for anyone who wonders how scientific studies happen, and how they influence the claims on products found in grocery stores and athletic stores alike." -- Bethany Brookshire - ScienceNews
"Absorbing.… Aschwanden separates the facts from the hype in the realm of athletic recovery, dispensing welcome doses of common sense." -- David Takami - Seattle Times
"An amusing and exhaustive takedown of the recovery products and trends that fitness enthusiasts have transformed into a multibillion-dollar industry." -- Andrea Gawrylewski - Scientific American
Christie Aschwanden is an award-winning science journalist. She’s cohost of the podcast Emerging Form, a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Slate, and was previously lead science writer for FiveThirtyEight. A National Magazine Award finalist and former elite athlete, she lives in Colorado.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393357714 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393357716 |
| Title | Good to Go |
| Author | Christie Aschwanden |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2020-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Colorado Book Award 2020 |
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