The Science of Endurance and Hydration

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If you're an endurance athlete, we are going to cover a lot of tools and science that i'm certain will also help enhance your training and performance in races or even just recreationally. There is a right way to hydrate and there is a wrong way to hydrate. It turns out that if you don't hydrate properly, you can see 20 to 30 % reductions in performance,. whether r not thats strength without increasing hypertrophe. Whether not that's running, swimming, even mental performance.

This episode I discuss endurance: our ability to perform effort over extended amounts of time. I describe the four kinds of endurance: muscular endurance, long duration (single-set) efforts, and the two kinds of high intensity interval training (HIIT). I discuss efficiency of effort and maximizing quality of effort, and a hydration formula. I review how our heart literally gets stronger when we oxygenate muscles properly. I also discuss motivation for long bouts of work and the visual physiological basis of the "extra gear" we all can leverage for effort. Finally, I review how accelerating as we fatigue can allow us to access untapped energetic resources.

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