The Problem With Hydration

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We lose anywhere from one to five pounds of water per hour of exercise. Once you lose about one to four % of your body weight in water, you are going to experience a 20 to 30% reduction in work capacity. You are also going to experience a significant drop in your ability to think and perform mental operations. So hydration is key.

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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