188 Quotes by Christopher McDougall

Vigil couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.

You could literally halt epidemics in their tracks with this one remedy,” he said. He flashed two fingers up in a peace sign, then slowly rotated them downward till they were scissoring through space. The Running Man. “So simple,” he said. “Just move your legs. Because if you don’t think you were born to run, you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.

Just because men and women of our era don’t live up to the myths doesn’t mean no one ever has, or ever will again.

Vegetables, grains, and legumes contain all the amino acids necessary to build muscle from scratch. Like.

Dr. Neil Roach, of George Washington University, lead author of a 2013 study that tackles the mystery of why, out of all other primates on the planet, we’re the only ones who can kill prey with a lethal throw.

All you have to do is keep the animal in sight, and within ten minutes, you’re reeling him in.

The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold – your hard-breathing point – during your endurance runs.

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.'