What Allows Us to Durable?

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Oxygen is not a fuel, but like a fire that has no oxygen, you can't actually burn the logs. Will power is neurons it's neurons in our brain. So whether or not you're somebody who as a lot of what we call resilience in endurance,. That has to do with your fuel utilization and specific neurons. We have to ask the question, what is the limiting factor on performance? Right?

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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