Born to Run

People have been trying to keep themselves physically fit since the beginning of time. For this purpose, they exercise daily and take the proper food that is needed to keep their body healthy. The problem is that not all people remain successful in achieving the goal. Christopher McDougall tries to find the secret of those successful people who run hard without any pain in their feet.

The author thought that the people who are failing in the thing are actually not doing it in the right way. So he started investigating by going to the tribe that has produced the world’s greatest and toughest runners. Here Christopher finds an entirely different scenario and he thinks that the health tips that people have been following, in general, were basically incorrect. It is Fred Sanders who narrates the life and culture of the people who call themselves the Tarahumara.

Living in North America, these humans have the ability to chase even a deer so winning a race in the Olympic marathon was like a piece of cake. The author found a guide in the form of Caballo who taught the author how to do it in the right way.

Christopher recalls how he ran his first fifty miles barefoot and there was nothing that worried him because he was so mentally and physically strong. Natural Born Heroes and Running with Sherman will continue with the same theme so go on with these two books too. These books will induce a new spirit in the listener and he too will try to achieve perfect physical fitness in the old traditional fashion that has remained successful for hundreds of years.