Over the past century, athletic performance has reach levels previously unimaginable. But the rate of our improvement has slowed during the past 20 years. That raises the question of whether there are limits to human performance and, if so, are we approaching them? Stanford researcher Mark Denny used models from the animal world to examine just how much faster we might get in the future. Here, he explains his work.
Adapted from Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes—and What We Can Learn from Them by Mark McClusky. Reprinted by arrangement with Hudson Street Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © Mark McClusky, 2014.
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