Henry Abbott

Ballistic: The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Injuries are not destiny. This revolutionary new account of the science of injury?prevention shows how ballistic movement can help you get strong, stay healthy, and be elite.

The biggest victories of medical scienceover polio, smallpox, heart attacks, and the likeare stories of prevention. Then there's sports, where we just run around until something breaks, leading to pain, frustration, and sometimes even expensive surgery. Injuries are a major cause of society's growing mobility crisis. What if we could predict and prevent them?

Blending cutting-edge science with gripping storytelling, award-winning data journalist and competitive amateur athlete Henry Abbott reveals that we are on the cusp of a new era in sports medicine, built around the science of ballistic movementsleaping and landingand the unique fingerprint of your body's physics.

Abbott's inspiring narrative tells the story of sports scientist Dr. Marcus Elliott and the Peak Performance Project (P3), who use technology to study how athletes move and why they get hurt. Applying machine learning and lessons from biomechanics, medicine, and physiology, doctors at P3 can now detect elevated risk of an ACL tear or a pulled hamstring like an echocardiogram can see warning signs of a heart attack.

Their data-driven findings are full of surprises. Your body's most important defense against knee and ankle injuries are the little-known muscles in the lower leg and hip area, which typical workouts rarely target. Similarly, the glutesnot the coredo the most to prevent back pain. Transformative benefits flow from training underappreciated kinds of athleticism like rotation, deceleration, and relaxation. Most of all, science shows that the best athletes don't avoid ballisticsthey master them.

Through riveting stories of elite athletes overcoming injuries and pushing themselves to the limit, Abbott presents an evidence-based case for intervening early to protect our bodies. And he suggests that we can all harness the science of ballistic movement not just to run fast or jump high but to move with joy and lead fulfilling athletic lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324050148
• Artikelnr.: 72259758

Autorenporträt

Henry Abbott is an award-winning journalist and founder of TrueHoop. He led ESPN's 60-person NBA digital and print team, which published several groundbreaking articles and won a National Magazine Award. He lives in New Jersey.