Endure by Alex Hutchinson

🏃‍♂️ From Kipchoge’s 1:59:40 feat in 2019

🏔 To Messner and Habeler’s Mt.Everest summit without oxygen in 1978

❄ To Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition of over a year on ice in 1914

and many more..are all stories of how humanity has pushed itself beyond its limits.

He initially explains concepts scientifically like :

✔ Muscle ✔ Pain ✔ Heat ✔ Thirst ✔ Oxygen ✔ Mind

and latest techniques to stretch the limits of human performance !!

✅ But when it all came down to the last chapter titled - “Belief”

He beautifully summarises to -

“When the moment of truth comes, science has confirmed what athletes have always believed : that there’s more in there- if you’re willing to believe it.”

BELIEVE