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Index
acceleration, 88
arm motion, 166, 170
head injury, 222, 224, 227, 253
acclimatization, 196–97
acrobatics, 58, 132
actin, in muscle fibers, 50–51, 56
Action Comics #1, ix
Adams, Neal, xv, xvi, 88, 161
adaptation(s): becoming Batman, 260–61
body hardening, 181, 184
bone to load, 66, 70–72
endurance/power, 96–97
exercise, 40–41, 192
general syndrome, 33, 41, 46, 212, 215
injury recovery, 233
life stress, 24, 30–40
mechanical stress, 41–42, 53, 57
metabolic pathways, 95
motor learning, 117–18
“survival value,” xviii, 24, 213, 215
training stress, 46, 52, 54–57, 60
adenine, 79
in DNA, 18–19
adrenal gland, 33, 35, 39–40
adrenaline/noradrenaline, 36, 213
aerobic metabolism, 87–88, 91, 95
age/aging, 247–59
Batman’s, 247–52, 256–59, 261
biological, 248