#47 Exercised Part II - Book Summary

Hello Wise Wordians,

Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.

This is the 2nd part of ‘Exercised’ by Daniel Lieberman which attempts to debunk a number of myths we assume are true about exercise by using an anthropological and cross-cultural perspective.

In this episode, we cover the remaining myths Daniel Lieberman attempts to debunk, such as:

• That Normal Humans Trade Off Speed for Endurance
• That We Evolved to Be Extremely Strong
• That Sports = Exercise
• That You Can't Lose Weight by Walking
• That Running is Bad for your Knees
• That It's Normal to Be Less Active as We Age
• That "Just Do It" Works
• That There Is an Optimal Dose and Type of Exercise

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Next week we will be summarising ‘The Sports Gene’ by David Epstein so make sure you stay tuned for that.

We hope you enjoy it.

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Chapters:
00:00:00-Intro
00:00:16-Overview
00:01:40-CHAPTER FIVE-Speed: Neither Tortoise nor Hare
00:02:22-Why are humans so slow?
00:07:54-Muscle Fibres
00:11:24-Can you be both fast and have endurance?
00:17:00-The Power of HIIT
00:18:51-CHAPTER SIX-Strength: From Brawny to Scrawny
00:19:00-The beginning of the fitness industry:
00:19:32-Primal Strength:
00:29:34-CHAPTER SEVEN Fighting and Sports: From Fangs to Football
00:29:45-Are humans stronger than chimps:
00:34:28-Ageing and Muscles:
00:42:23-Violent and Peaceful:
00:49:41-CHAPTER 8-Walking: All in a Day's Walk
00:50:58-Why do we walk on two legs?
00:54:58-The constrained energy expenditure hypothesis
00:58:49-Born to Walk
01:02:30-CHAPTER NINE-Running and Dancing: Jumping from One Leg to the Other
01:05:19-How do Humans outrun horses?
01:07:55-Why are we good at endurance running?
01:21:12-Power Scavenging and Persistence Hunting
01:24:46-If humans evolved to run, why do so many runners get injured?
01:35:01-CHAPTER ΤΕΝ-Endurance and Aging: The Active Grandparent and Costly Repair Hypotheses
01:37:16-The active grandparent hypothesis
01:46:14-Why does exercise slow down ageing?
01:55:02-Mortality and morbidity
02:02:40-What does this all mean?
02:05:47-CHAPTER ELEVEN To Move or Not to Move: How to Make Exercise Happen
02:10:40-Chapter Twelve How Much and What Type?
02:13:08-Debrief

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