What Do Nerves Need to Continue to Fire?

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Your thinking is the responsibility of chemicals and electrical signals in your head. Neurons have what's called a sodium potassium pump, abablas. They generate electricity. So when people say mental or physical, understand it's 100 % neural. It's neither mental nor physical. Everything is neurons. And i'd love for the how much of it is mental and how much is physical, to just disappear, that that argument means nothing and it's not actionable.

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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