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This book is fully geared towards women doing endurance sports. It's got some interesting stuff on how menstrual cycles + hormone stuff can affect the body and postmenopausal considerations. I was annoyed throughout after the weight training debacle, the fatphobic stuff, some boring gender generalizations, and why the heck was all the dairy products mentioned were specifically low-fat? I also wanted a clearer citation style, there are some resources listed for each chapter but in the text it was just “and this one study...”
From the “dance psychologist” Dr Lovatt tells his story of becoming a dancer while dealing with dyslexia, his academic journey, and the studies he and others have done on the impact dance has on humans. He provides some advice for types of dances to try for creativity, agility, or general health and ends the book with several musical playlists.
This was an interesting companion to my music nonfic month - not much dance happens without music afterall. The tone and language are light, not too academic, and I don't know if this would convince anyone who doesn't already enjoy a spot of dancing (when is the last time I've been dancing anyway???)
Gorgeous art. The text is a mix of academese and general interest history and a curated shanty collection. (No Wellerman, sorry, but yes Blow the Man Down and Drunken Sailor)
edited to add I was hoping for more crudeness, the author kept talking about how unprintable some verses and versions were and now I gotta hunt down the dirt myself???
#bookclub4m
I listen to a podcast called Science of Ultra with Shawn Bearden so some of this is pretty familiar. Koerner goes through all the aspects of running ultras based on his experience of running and organizing races. It even includes training plans for various ultra distances(50km, 50 miles, etc) but doesn't tell you whether the distances in the plan are miles or kms? I guess it's probably American so imperial units like the nonsense monkeys they are.
