Natural born heroes - Christopher McDougall

When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty
tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped
resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of
something special.To beat the odds, the tricksters-starving, aging,
outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness: the lost art of
heroism. They listened to their instincts, replaced calories with stored
bodily fat and used their fascia, the network of tissue which
criss-crosses the body, to catapult themselves to superhuman strength
and endurance.
Soon McDougall was in the middle of a modern
fitness revolution taking place everywhere from Parisian parkour routes
to state-of-the-art laboratories, and based on the know-how of Shanghai
street-fighters and Wild West gunslingers. Just as Born to Run got runners off the treadmill and into nature, Natural Born Heroes will inspire casual athletes to dump the gym membership for cross-training, mud runs and free-running.