On Muscle – The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters | How To Academy

Mon, 21 April 2025

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm BST

On Muscle – The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

Bonnie Tsui

Muscle is more than just what we are made of; it allows us to explore who we are and who we want to be. Change the way you think about how you move with author and athlete Bonnie Tsui.

Cardiac, smooth, skeletal—these three different types of muscle in our bodies make our hearts beat, push food through our intestines, blood through our vessels, attach to our bones and help us move. Individually, they do different things. Collectively, they drive us through our days.

Join former competitive swimmer Bonnie Tsui as she jumps headfirst into the intriguing world of muscle from the five angles of strength, form, action, flexibility and endurance. From the labs of Oslo where cutting-edge research reveals how muscles help us bounce back after injury and illness, to the deserts of Nevada along the path of escape from a Native boarding school, she will help transform how we understand longevity and endurance.

Don’t miss this powerful reminder of how using our muscles promotes longevity, joy, and, most importantly, the feeling that we can do anything.

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Bonnie Tsui

Bestselling Author and Athlete

Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and the bestselling author of Why We Swim, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Time magazine and NPR Best Book of the Year; it is currently being translated into ten languages. Bonnie is also the author of American Chinatown, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and Sarah and the Big Wave, a children’s book about the first woman to surf Mavericks and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection. Her work has been recognized and supported by Harvard University, the National Press Foundation, the Mesa Refuge, and the Best American Essays series.