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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7
EAN: 9780801890635
ISBN: 0801890632
Label: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Date: November 07, 2008
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Studio: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Battling bad guys. High-tech hideouts. The gratitude of the masses. Who at some point in their life hasn't dreamed of being a superhero? Impossible, right? Or is it?
Possessing no supernatural powers, Batman is the most realistic of all the superheroes. His feats are achieved through rigorous training and mental discipline, and with the aid of fantastic gadgets. Drawing on his training as a neuroscientist, kinesiologist, and martial artist, E. Paul Zehr explores the question: Could a mortal ever become Batman?
Zehr discusses the physical training necessary to maintain bad-guy-fighting readiness while relating the science underlying this process, from strength conditioning to the cognitive changes a person would endure in undertaking such a regimen. In probing what a real-life Batman could achieve, Zehr considers the level of punishment a consummately fit and trained person could handle, how hard and fast such a person could punch and kick, and the number of adversaries that individual could dispatch. He also tells us what it would be like to fight while wearing a batsuit and the amount of food we'd need to consume each day to maintain vigilance as Gotham City's guardian.
A fun foray of escapism grounded in sound science, Becoming Batman provides the background for attaining the realizable -- though extreme -- level of human performance that would allow you to be a superhero.
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great info, i liked all the science actually, but not enough on how to become a batman. there were some things, but a couple were not very good, like lifting weights 20 reps and more? im pretty sure that works your sarcoplasmic muscles and not myofibril as much, u dont want to be a bodybuilder.
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"Becoming Batman" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Zehr's book interview ran here as cover feature on May 27, 2009.
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It is very in depth, but it is also alot like a text book rather than an easy read.
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Not exactly what I expected, The book is good but it seems more like "Discussing the science of BatMan" and not so much how to become the BatMan.
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I love books that take topics that interest me and examine the science in them. This book is not, as I assumed, a prescriptive on how to become Batman but more a treatise on the feasibility of becoming Batman. Could a man really train and then operate in the way Batman is depicted in the comics and movies?
Dr. Zehr comes to the topic with suitable expertise. Not only is he a professor of neuroscience and kinesiology, but he has multiple blackbelts and more than 25 years of experience ... Read More
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