Overview of The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success Book

The book highlights what makes a successful athlete and how to attain excellence to become one of the elite athletes. The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success delves deep into the question of whether you become a successful sports person by virtue of your genes or it is prolonged and dedicated effort and practice that give rise to a successful sportsperson. The book debunks some myths about how and why humans excel. A good amount of research has gone into showing the relationship between modern genetic research and exemplary athleticism.The book is divided into 16 chapters, detailing the interconnection between genes and athletic performance. Some of the chapters included in the book are Beat by an underhand girl: The gene free model of expertise, Why men have nipples, A tale of two high jumpers (10000 hours + or - 10000 hours), the big bang of body types, the talent of trainability, Major league vision and the greatest child athlete sample ever: The hardware and software paradigm, the Vitruvian NBA player, Bully whippets and the trainability of muscle, Superbaby, We are all black (sort of): Race and genetic diversity, the gold medal mutation, Malaria and muscle fibers, the warrior - slave theory of Jamaican sprinting, the heartbreak gene: Death, injury and pain on the field, Can every Kalenjin run?, the world's greatest accidental talent sieve, ultrarunners and couch potato genes and Sled dogs.The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success was published by Yellow Jersey in 2014 and is available in paperback.

• Book Type :

Science & Mathematics

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

352 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

022409162X

• The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success Published On :

2 Jan 2014

• Resource:

Textbooks, Science & Mathematics Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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