Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness
Description
<p><b>The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon.</b><br /> <br />One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, <i>Learning to Breathe Fire </i>combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die. <br /> <br />The story traces CrossFit’s rise, from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes and Janes. Especially riveting is Herz’s description of The CrossFit Games, which begin as an informal throw-down on a California ranch and evolve into a televised global proving ground for the fittest men and women on Earth, as well as hundreds of thousands of lesser mortals. <br /> <br />In her portrayal of the sport's star athletes, its passionate coaches and its “chief armorer,” Rogue Fitness, Herz powerfully evokes the uniqueness of a fitness culture that cultivates primal fierceness in average people. And in the shared ordeal of an all-consuming workout, she unearths the ritual intensity that's been with us since humans invented sports, showing us how, on a deep level, we're all tribal hunters and first responders, waiting for the signal to go all-out. </p>
Story Behind The Book
Pegoland is a unique novel written by bhaskarbenjamin.
PEGOLAND....is the Positive Ego Land....where all beings are connected in their thoughts.Everyone knows what others are thinking...but the emotions are not hooked onto the universal transmitter-receiver of thoughts !!!
Pegoland is a land sphere where there is no religion...no countries....no hierarchy....no dogmas....no ownership...no negativity !
The land is abundant in creativity and love !!!
....and then...all of a sudden...NEGO creeps in....giving birth to :
Dogmas
Politics
Conditioning
Hierarchies
Hatred....etc.
There is a book within a book...
At one level...PS...a pure soul chosen by Master Thought is writing a book to fight the negative impact of Ego ( NEGO)..
...and at another level ....EVOL and his beloved Roma are fighting the forces of negativism in PEGOLAND
Pegoland is a novel that transcends all known 'norms' of human existence....it is ....a writer's dream....of HOW EVOLUTION SHOULD TAKE US FURTHER....
