On muscle : the stuff that moves us and why it matters / Bonnie Tsui.
| Author/creator | Tsui, Bonnie author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, 2025. |
| Description | 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Strength. What's power, in a body? -- Muscle as potential -- A heavy lift -- The making of a hero, then and now -- Form. The ideal body -- Who's afraid of a lady Hercules? -- Shoulders, squared -- Action. Your muscles are talking -- Jumpology -- The movement is the message -- Flexibility. Muscles, fast and slow -- I comes from unity -- Rememberances of exercises past -- Endurance. What we carry -- Running to remember -- True grit -- Going the distance -- Kissing the ground in equilibrium -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes. |
| Abstract | "Cardiac, smooth, skeletal--these three different types of muscles in our bodies make our hearts beat; push food through our intestines, blood through our vessels, babies out the uterus; attach to our bones and allow for motion. Tsui also traces how muscles have defined beauty--and how they have distorted it--through the ages, and how they play an essential role in our physical and mental health."-- From publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 9781643753089 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1643753088 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |