{"product_id":"sweat-a-history-of-exercise","title":"Sweat: A History of Exercise","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSweat: A History of Exercise\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBill Hayes\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781620402283\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBloomsbury Publishing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the year\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Book of 2022\u003cbr\u003eA Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2022 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eInsomniac City\u003c\/i\u003e author Bill Hayes, \"who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did\" (\u003ci\u003eSF Chronicle)\u003c\/i\u003e--a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads from HIIT to spin classes to hot yoga to prove it. Exercise--a form of physical activity distinct from sports, play, or athletics--was an ancient obsession, too, but as a chapter in human history, it's been largely overlooked. In \u003ci\u003eSweat\u003c\/i\u003e, Bill Hayes runs, jogs, swims, spins, walks, bikes, boxes, lifts, sweats, and downward-dogs his way through the origins of different forms of exercise, chronicling how they have evolved over time, dissecting the dynamics of human movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHippocrates, Plato, Galen, Susan B. Anthony, Jack LaLanne, and Jane Fonda, among many others, make appearances in \u003ci\u003eSweat\u003c\/i\u003e, but chief among the historical figures is Girolamo Mercuriale, a Renaissance-era Italian physician who aimed singlehandedly to revive the ancient Greek \"art of exercising\" through his 1569 book \u003ci\u003eDe arte gymnastica\u003c\/i\u003e. Though largely forgotten over the past five centuries, Mercuriale and his illustrated treatise were pioneering, and are brought back to life in the pages of \u003ci\u003eSweat. \u003c\/i\u003eHayes ties his own personal experience--and ours--to the cultural and scientific history of exercise, from ancient times to the present day, giving us a new way to understand its place in our lives in the 21st century.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Sweat: A History of Exercise | Bill Hayes | Hardcover | 9781620402283 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1778541","offer_id":49814251208856,"sku":"1778541","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81IACwWBusL.jpg?v=1788535226","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/sweat-a-history-of-exercise","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}