Boosting Your Heart's Ability to Deliver Blood and Oxygen to Your Lungs

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This can be beneficial in competitive sports, or team sports. Even though it feels like maximum effort, it is not the same as building power and speed into muscles. The key elements are that you're bringing your breathing and your oxygen ualization way up above your max. It's not quite hitting failure, but you're reall pushing the system to the point where you are not ready to do another set,. yet you begin another set.

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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