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What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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The Brain Is a Prediction Machine

I think there's enough of them that you know I'm inclined to believe they are true. When you look at the idea of the brain is a prediction machine and also how your brain is controlling your physiology it does start to make a bit more sense. We only use about 50% of these muscle fibers even one way of kind of peak of the peak part of an exercise like we never really use all of the fibers at all but it seems that in these cases of hysterical strength the sheer gravity of the situation that they're facing leads the prediction machine to kind of take off the brakes on what it's allowing the body to do. It's willing to risk injury in that sense by using potentially

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