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Preface: beginning Becoming Batman Part I: Bat-Building Blocks¿ Exploring what Batman became by beginning where he started¿ Chapter One: The before Batman¿how buff was Bruce? Chapter Two: Guess who¿s coming for dinner¿Bruce¿s twin brother ¿Bob¿ and the human genome Chapter Three: Holy Hormones, Batman! Part II: Basic Bat-body training¿ Laying the foundation for Batman¿s physical prowess to be later exploited by his skill¿ Chapter Four: Gaining strength and power¿does the bat that flies the highest or the fastest get the worm? Chapter Five: Building the Bat-bones¿ Chapter Six: Bat-metabolism and the Dark Knight diet Part III: Training the Bat-brain Batman on the path to mastery of the martial arts¿ Chapter Seven: Developing movement and martial skill¿what is motor learning anyway? Chapter Eight: Everybody was Kung Fu fighting¿but what was Batman doing? Chapter Nine: The Caped Crusader in Combat: Can you kayo without killing? Part IV: Batman in action Knight moves with Batman when he acts as the caped crusader¿ Chapter Ten: Batman bashes and is bashed by bad boys¿ Chapter Eleven: Hardening the Bat-body Chapter Twelve: Working the Knight shift Part V: A miscellaneous mixed Bat-bag Pondering possible pitfalls along the path to Bat-hood¿ Chapter Thirteen: Injury and recovery¿ How much banging until the bat-back goes bonk and does Batman take steroids? Chapter Fourteen: Battle of the Bats¿Batgirl vs Batman Chapter Fifteen: Could Caped Crusader become Old Codger? Chapter 16: Can you really become Batman and remain Batman? Chapter 17: Post-script¿Further reading and historical milestones References
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Batman (Fictitious character).
Physical education and training.
Human physiology.