The Visual System and the Kind of Mental Aspects of Endurance

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The visual system has this capacity to switch back and forth between panoramic vision, where we're not really focused on anything, or our eyes are just going of zoned out. If i draw my eyes to one location, like right there in the centre of the camera, it's what's called a virgene eye movement. So i'm contracting my visual window. The contraction of the visual window when that's done, is the same thing that would happen if i was tracking, say, a pace car or a pace runner or a lazer on the ground. This is probably easiest to imagine out of the water. Let's you're out for a long run, or your

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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