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A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of “peak age.”
Season after season, today’s sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably sideline their competitors. How much of the difference is genetic destiny and how much can be attributed to better training, medicine, and technology? Is athletic longevity a skill that can be taught or a mental discipline that can be mastered? Can career-ending injuries be predicted and avoided?
Journalist Jeff Bercovici spent extensive time with professional and Olympic athletes, coaches, and doctors to find the answers to these questions. His quest led him to training camps, tournaments, hospitals, antiaging clinics, and Silicon Valley startups, where he tried cutting-edge treatments and technologies firsthand and investigated the realities behind health fads like alkaline diets, high-intensity interval training, and cryotherapy. Through fascinating profiles and first-person anecdotes, Bercovici illuminates the science and strategies extending the careers of elite older athletes, uncovers the latest advances in fields from nutrition to brain science to virtual reality, and offers empowering insights about how the rest of us can find peak performance at any age.
Season after season, today’s sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably sideline their competitors. How much of the difference is genetic destiny and how much can be attributed to better training, medicine, and technology? Is athletic longevity a skill that can be taught or a mental discipline that can be mastered? Can career-ending injuries be predicted and avoided?
Journalist Jeff Bercovici spent extensive time with professional and Olympic athletes, coaches, and doctors to find the answers to these questions. His quest led him to training camps, tournaments, hospitals, antiaging clinics, and Silicon Valley startups, where he tried cutting-edge treatments and technologies firsthand and investigated the realities behind health fads like alkaline diets, high-intensity interval training, and cryotherapy. Through fascinating profiles and first-person anecdotes, Bercovici illuminates the science and strategies extending the careers of elite older athletes, uncovers the latest advances in fields from nutrition to brain science to virtual reality, and offers empowering insights about how the rest of us can find peak performance at any age.
Read Play On The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age Jeff Bercovici 9781328595966 Books
"Stories were sourced via networking with doctors after talking to football players, rather than actually researched. I don't think he's googled even one NIH study. His advice at the end isn't bad, it just isn't complete. Emerging faschia science discoveries, effect of vibration platforms, funtional medicine and somatic practices (other than positive self-talk) on workout outcomes are not mentioned. There is big focus on football, and how they increasingly use surgical intervention, more sleep, going for less pain and more gain when training, and training based on the particular sport you practice when training to stay fit longer. Also silly stories about unreasearched cures that spread between the elite via word of mouth, like bathing in wine.
So it's not helpful to most people seeking to be very good at an athletic endeavor late in life, because we don't typically run, play football, soccer or tennis, won't pay to bathe in wine. I was hoping for more science, less talk between elites. And what about how long dancers of all kinds are now staying on the stage? Further, females are mentioned only regarding injuries - stuff that could happen to anyone. None of the recent changes to the way elite women (50% of the elite athlete population) overcome age challenges particular to women are mentioned. Kindly, some woman dancer/runner/athlete/writer please step up and meet the challenge of writing a well researched and accessible book for all older athletes, and include the women."
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Play On The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age Jeff Bercovici 9781328595966 Books Reviews
- The last five things I bought on before this were 1) Fish food, 2) Gloves with LEDs in the fingers, 3) A stuffed cat vomiting a rainbow, 4) A carbon monoxide detector, 5) Measuring spoons. None of these is going to make my life and better or longer*, but this book will. "Play On" is the key to the locked toolbox that holds the tools you need in the fight against sarcopenia. Spoilers ahead I'm going to work on power instead of strength, and take breaks when I'm tired. So long, sarcopenia. I'll post an update with pictures of my leg muscles in a few months.
* Assuming we don't have a carbon monoxide leak. - A very enjoyable read from a talented author. The book is mostly focused on elite athletes which I am not. I am just a 68 year old man trying to wisely exercise in an effort to resist the long and depressing list of effects of aging that he discusses at the beginning of the book.
There were nuggets throughout that I can try and the epilogue is specifically about what's the takeaway for the non-elite athlete. It shined a light on some things I'm probably doing wrong that I'll work on fixing. Valuable. I'm glad I read it. - Exceptionally well researched insights on fitness and athletic performance from some set of the world's most respected coaches, scientists and elite athletes.
Jeff goes broad and deep and collates his learnings into a highly entertaining narrative. Simply put, this is a great read, the findings are actionable and I'm now more than ever convinced that 40 is the new 20!
This one will stay with me for a lifetime. My gift giving for 2018 just became a lot simpler. Thank you, Jeff. - Stories were sourced via networking with doctors after talking to football players, rather than actually researched. I don't think he's googled even one NIH study. His advice at the end isn't bad, it just isn't complete. Emerging faschia science discoveries, effect of vibration platforms, funtional medicine and somatic practices (other than positive self-talk) on workout outcomes are not mentioned. There is big focus on football, and how they increasingly use surgical intervention, more sleep, going for less pain and more gain when training, and training based on the particular sport you practice when training to stay fit longer. Also silly stories about unreasearched cures that spread between the elite via word of mouth, like bathing in wine.
So it's not helpful to most people seeking to be very good at an athletic endeavor late in life, because we don't typically run, play football, soccer or tennis, won't pay to bathe in wine. I was hoping for more science, less talk between elites. And what about how long dancers of all kinds are now staying on the stage? Further, females are mentioned only regarding injuries - stuff that could happen to anyone. None of the recent changes to the way elite women (50% of the elite athlete population) overcome age challenges particular to women are mentioned. Kindly, some woman dancer/runner/athlete/writer please step up and meet the challenge of writing a well researched and accessible book for all older athletes, and include the women. - I’m on the other side of 60. I’ve been exercising like I mean it for the past 45 years. This book is great, and full of wonderful, useful information for us lunatics who throw ourselves into the blender of fitness, with no intention of ever stopping. Bravo.
- If you have ever wondered how Tom Brady is still able to play lights out at the age of 40, this is a must read.
Play On takes you deep into the world of the players, coaches, and doctors who are at the frontier of figuring out how to maintain elite physical performance long after even the best athletes are expected to be in decline. Not surprisingly, some of the theories and practices sound plausible while others seem a little out there, and the author does a great job of immersing himself in these protocols in order to understand what we can actually know about how the body performs the way it does. This is not a self-help book or a work of speculative health advice -- it's a thoroughly reported work of journalism that also has the virtue of being a pleasure to read. For anyone interested in cutting edge ideas about maintaining their fitness for years to come -- and really, who isn't? -- this highly entertaining and informative book should be on your list. - Oftentimes books trying to cover the various scientific disciplines behind athletic performance come up short when trying to appeal to a mass audience. The author did a good job keeping with the science but writing in a style the layperson could understand.
- A novel interpretation of how professional athletes manage the aging process, playing smarter rather than harder. Explores role of nutrition, cumulative injury, psychological "chunking" (pattern recognition), cryotherapy, among other tools. As a self-dubbed anti-aging specialist, believe this provides a framework, which is generalizable to life.
