Daniel Lieberman - Exercised

The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

This is a really superb, humane, and wise book, focused on that peculiar human behaviour we call exercise; or, as Lieberman puts it, ‘voluntary physical activity that is planned, structured, repetitive, and undertaken to sustain or improve health and fitness’. The title, of course, intentionally riffs on differing meanings of the word exercised - a tiri…