How to Think About Exercise

Damon Young,The School of Life

How to Think About Exercise
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
2 January 2014
Pages
192
ISBN
9780230767768

How to Think About Exercise

Damon Young,The School of Life

It can often seem as though existence is split in two: body and mind, flesh and spirit, moving and thinking. In the office or at study we are ‘mind workers’, with superfluous bodies. In the gym we stretch, run and lift, but our minds are idle.

Damon Young challenges this idea, revealing how fitness can develop our bodies and minds as one. Exploring exercises and sports with the help of ancient and modern philosophy, he uncovers the pleasures, virtues and big ideas of fitness. By exercising intelligently, we are committing to wholeness: enjoying and enhancing our full humanity.

One in the new series of books from The School of Life, launched January 2014: How to Age by Anne Karpf, How to Develop Emotional Health by Oliver James, How to Be Alone by Sara Maitland, How to Deal with Adversity by Christopher Hamilton, How to Think About Exercise by Damon Young, How to Connect with Nature by Tristan Gooley.

‘This new series of The School of Life’s self-help books build on the strengths of the first, tackling some of the hardest issues of our lives in a way that is genuinely informative, helpful and consoling. Here are books that prove that the term self-help doesn’t have to be either shallow or naive.’ (Alain de Botton, Founder of The School of Life) 

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