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#382: The Secrets of Greater Endurance

The Art of Manliness

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The Effect of Pain on Athletic Performance

There's a bunch of studies on athletes and what they all find is that as you keep turning up the the shocks the non-athletes are the first ones to say okay I want to stop now. The athletes will keep going for for in some cases substantially longer. No one really knows the full answer is to how that happens but the prevailing thinking is that it's just a question of psychological coping mechanism mechanisms Athletes because they train in ways that are uncomfortable they're used to on a daily basis dealing with some discomfort.

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