"This highly engaging landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest? The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity and inactivity, even as each chapter shatters a particular myth about exercise. Because we cannot understand physical activity without understanding its...

This immerses viewers in the extraordinary routines of children who live in the four corners of the Earth, whose sheer will to accomplish their dreams leads them onto a path that many have walked, but never like this.