Stronger : the untold story of muscle in our lives
Gross, Michael Joseph2026
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'Stronger' is an urgent call for each of us to recognise muscle as 'the vital, inextricable and effective partner of the soul'. It tells a story of breathtaking scope, from the battlefields of the Trojan War in Homer's Iliad, where muscles enter the scene of world literature; to the all-but-forgotten Victorian-era gyms on both sides of the Atlantic, where women build strength and muscle by lifting heavy weights; to a retirement home in Boston, where a young doctor makes the astonishing discovery that frail ninety-year-olds can experience the same relative gains of strength and muscle as thirty-year-olds if they lift weights.
Main title:
Stronger : the untold story of muscle in our lives / Michael Joseph Gross.
Author:
Gross, Michael Joseph, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2026.
Collation:
480 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2025.
ISBN:
9781399633345 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
613.713613.713 GRO
Language:
English
BRN:
9071185