A former Sports Illustrated editor, Mark McClusky has contributed to several bestselling books and is a contributor to Alinea, by Grant Achatz. He lives in Oakland, California.
“Faster, Higher, Stronger is one of the most lucid and entertaining
books I've read about sports science and how it is making better,
faster, stronger athletes. More important, though, Mark McClusky
clearly explains why this science matters to the rest of us and how
we can use it in our lives. A smart and important book.”
—Gretchen Reynolds, author of The First 20 Minutes
“Success in top-level sports is no longer just an athletic contest
-- it’s a learning contest that takes place on the frontiers of
science, technology, and the human body. If you’re interested in
understanding and competing in this new world, you need to buy Mark
McClusky’s smart, invigorating, and useful book, right now.”
—Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code and The
Secret Race
“In my more than 20 years researching the field of health and
fitness, few books have captured my attention like Mark McClusky's
riveting investigation of the groundbreaking science fueling elite
athletic performance. Faster, Higher, Stronger breaks the
code and gives everyday readers a chance to steal the cutting-edge
secrets of the pros.”
—Dave Zinczenko, author of Eat This, Not That
“Is fatigue mostly in your head? Can built-in talent take you to
the Olympics in only four years? Will big data transform how we
play basketball? Faster, Higher, Stronger is a brilliant, fun
report on the science of hacking your performance.”
—Clive Thompson, author of Smarter Than You Think
“Mark McClusky has written an enlightening, intelligent,
comprehensive look at the merging of sports and science. It’s truly
fascinating stuff.”
—Jeff Pearlman, bestselling author of Showtime
“An engaging journey through the intersection of sports
and science, Faster, Higher, Stronger is a must-read for
armchair athletes, coaches, parents, and anyone who wants to
understand human potential."
—Chris Anderson, bestselling author of The Long
Tail and Makers
“Today, in sports, what you are is what you make yourself into.
Innate athletic ability matters, but it’s taken to be the base from
which you have to ascend. Training efforts that forty years ago
would have seemed unimaginably sophisticated and obsessive are now
what it takes to stay in the game. Athletes don’t merely work
harder than they once did. As Mark McClusky documents in his
fascinating new book, Faster, Higher, Stronger, they also work
smarter, using science and technology to enhance the way they train
and perform. It isn’t enough to eat right and put in the hours.
“You need to have the best PhDs onboard as well,” McClusky says.
This technological and analytical arms race is producing the best
athletes in history.”
—The New Yorker
“McClusky’s eye-opening account of sports science shatters outmoded
training myths and heralds a revolutionary new terrain, in which
the combination of high-tech methods and scientific breakthroughs
designed will give the sports fan something wondrous to watch.”
—Publishers Weekly
“In Faster, Higher, Stronger, journalist Mark McClusky takes us
into the world of athletics, looking at what differentiates winners
from losers in elite competitions, from the Olympics to Formula One
auto racing. The focus on extremes of excellence and performance at
the margins of human capability makes a great read. The casual
sportsman is not forgotten, as McClusky touches back on his own
golf game to help weekend athletes relate. Marginal gains,
trainability, and best fit run through the book, which is filled
with engaging stories of athletes reaching the podium or missing by
a hair.”
—Science
“Speed-skating super-suits, motion-tracking cameras, the 10,000
hour rule—it's all covered in Mark McClusky's engrossing look into
how athletes use science to avoid injury, train smarter, and
shatter records.”
—Mother Jones
“McClusky states that “every great athlete is the product of the
interaction between their genetics and their effort,” and he
presents rigorous research with an accessible style relatable to
both professional and lay readers alike. All of this trickles down
to amateur athletics as well, and McClusky does a good job of
relating cutting-edge science to people wanting to run their 5K a
little faster or shave a few strokes off their golf handicap.”
—Booklist
“While most of the work is dedicated to advancements in sports
science, McClusky saves the inevitable conversation of
performance-enhancing drugs for the conclusion. He tries to
discover the thin line between finding and utilizing scientific
advantages and actual cheating. It's a difficult one to discover,
but the book's overall strength is McClusky's willingness to engage
those questions many sports fans have trouble navigating. This is a
fascinating read about the creative—and sometimes bizarre—training
techniques extreme athletes use. VERDICT: This brief but detailed
tour of modern sports science will garner strong interest from
athletes, sports fans, and even couch potatoes.”
—Library Journal
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