Expert Profile: Alex Hutchinson
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Alex Hutchinson is a science journalist focusing on the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports, and his work is a perfect, complementary fit for PainScience.com. Luck for me, our subject matters overlaps only partially, or I might just have to give up, because Alex has been covering his beat so effectively for so long. As it is, there are many exercise topics of interest to my readers that I am thrilled to leave to him rather than spreading myself even thinner trying to cover them all.
His “Sweat Science” column has been hosted by Outside magazine for years now, with weekly posts, usually focusing on a study shedding some light on training and performance. I’ve linked to dozens of these over the years, and I have routinely cribbed from his posts to get a good start on my own reporting on a study.
His most recent book is the New York Times bestseller Endure: Mind, body, and the curiously elastic limits of human performance.
His 2011 book, Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?, is a great practical guide to the science of exercise.
Before journalism, Alex got a PhD in physics from Cambridge. He has also competed for the Canadian national team in track, cross-country, road, and mountain running. He lives (and runs) in Toronto.
~ Paul Ingraham, PainSci Publisher
Related Content
- Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? Fitness myths, training truths, and other surprising discoveries from the science of exercise (book), by Alex Hutchinson.
- Endure: Mind, body, and the curiously elastic limits of human performance (book), by Alex Hutchinson. Amazon.com ❐
- Sweat Science: Fitness myths, training truths, and other surprising discoveries from the science of exercise (outsideonline.com/1745511/alex-hutchinson).