Alex Hutchinson is the author of the New York Times bestseller Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. He is a National Magazine Award-winning science journalist and Outside magazine’s longtime Sweat Science columnist. Before journalism, he was a postdoctoral physicist and a long-distance runner for the Canadian national team. He lives in Toronto.
Books in order of publication:
Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise – 2011
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance – 2018
The Explorer’s Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map – 2025
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