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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Hereditary traits like height and arm span offer crucial advantages in basketball.
Chapter 3: Skeletal structure is also crucial for success in running, sprinting and swimming.
Chapter 4: Your muscles’ suitability for particular sports is also determined by your genes.
Chapter 5: Your aerobic capacity strongly affects performance and, though genetically based, can be increased by training.
Chapter 6: Your genes also affect your drive and capacity to train hard, as well as your risk of injury.
Chapter 7: Two tribes in Kenya and Ethiopia have evolved an ideal build for long-distance running.
Chapter 8: Malaria and the traumas of slavery may help explain why West Africans and Jamaicans dominate sprinting.
Description
The Sports Gene takes a look at the physiological traits that are beneficial in various sports, and at their hereditary background. It also examines why people in certain parts of the world have evolved in their particular way, and how this is beneficial in the realm of certain sports.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who follows sports
- Anyone who wants to understand what sport they might be naturally good at
- Anyone who is interested in the physiology behind top athletic performance