© 2002 British Journal of Sports Medicine
EDITORIAL
Warm up
A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step
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In my peregrinations from the ACSM meeting in St Louis to England, Norway, and Canada recently, I found myself desperately searching the airport bookshops for something distracting to while away the hours of travel and came across an absolute cracker of a sports medicine book. No, I don't mean yet another soccer book, although I do note that the quality of the books has improved out of sight in recent years. It makes a pleasant change given that many sports books are written for fans that follow the text with their fingers! No, this book is about muscles. It is called Prime mover: a natural history of muscles by Steven Vogel (Norton Press).
Dr Vogel is a biomechanist from Duke University in South Carolina, and his book is full of interesting and often arcane facts. For example, the derivation of the word muscle is from the Latin word
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