The Effect of Social Synchrony on Endurance Sports Performance

There's an actual social component going on there that these individual athletes use or harness to push themselves beyond perceived effort yep so you know human beings are social animals so we we behave differently in groups than we do alone and that includes when we are testing our endurance performance capacity. A study involving rowers where a group of rowers were asked to do an indoor rowing workout on two separate occasions found their pain tolerance was significantly higher after they'd done the workout as a group. This phenomenon is referred to as behavioral synchrony and sometimes it can be hard to to separate them but I just got maybe one of the geniuses of CrossFit right where it's very social you have a box