Stronger

The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives

By: Michael Joseph Gross

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Paperback | 11 March 2025 | Edition Number 1

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'Even if you've never picked up a weight, Stronger is for you' - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Stronger sounds an urgent call for each of us to recognise muscle as 'the vital, inextricable and effective partner of the soul'.

It tells a story of breathtaking scope, from the battlefields of the Trojan War in Homer's Iliad, where muscles enter the scene of world literature; to the all-but-forgotten Victorian-era gyms on both sides of the Atlantic, where women build strength and muscle by lifting heavy weights; to a retirement home in Boston, where a young doctor makes the astonishing discovery that frail ninety-year-olds can experience the same relative gains of strength and muscle as thirty-year-olds if they lift weights.

Stronger shows muscle and weight training in a whole new light. With warmth and humour, Michael Joseph Gross blends history and firsthand reporting in an inspiring narrative packed with practical information based on rigorous scientific studies from around the world. The research proves that weight training can help prevent or treat many chronic diseases and disabilities throughout the lifespan, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis and depression. Stronger reveals how all of us, from elite powerlifters to people who have never played sports at all, can learn to lift weights in ways that yield life's ultimate prize: the ability to act upon the world in the ways that we wish.

Industry Reviews

Heaven. The history, science, and practice of lifting weights, all in one place

At once a meditation on the relationship between soul and body and a practical guide to growing old . . . thoughtful, richly reported and totally compelling - author of The Sixth Extinction

[An] enlightening history of weight training - awardwinning author of The World According to Garp

A pioneering narrative . . . It raises the question that great books do: Why has this not been written before?

The very definition of cutting-edge... an elegant, sophisticated, and substantial piece of work... absolutely enthralling, written with a masterly zip and zing

Meticulous research and first-rate storytelling - creator and host of the podcasts How I Built This and Wow in the World

Scholarly - fascinating and entertaining - longtime Muscle & Fitness columnist and author of Ripped: The Sensible Way to Achieve Ultimate Muscularity

An engagingly learned look at the human body - Kirkus, Nonfiction Must-Reads

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