How Much Work Can You Do in Eight to 12 Minutes?

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Long duration endurance builds up so many of these energy utilization systems. It really teaches you to n engage, escuse me, the nerve to muscle firing. It allows the blood to deliver more oxygen to the muscle and to your brain. And it builds a tremendous lung capacity.

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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