The Importance of Mindfulness in Endurance Athletes

David Data's book Wave is purely the man that I'm currently reading. He talks about when you're in pain or when you're experiencing something to start with your shoulders back and just feel it, he says. Whatever you're feeling right now, it could be 10 out of 10 pain, globally across your entire body - but six months time all will be a memory. Your life is not lived from the comfort of your couch. So go and do what's called a Widowmaker, which is a 20 reps on back squat with your 10 rep max. That's the only time I could really distinctly remember. It happened every time this decoupling from like, I am in this experience

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