How to Get the Most Out of Your Day Energy

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Your body has the capacity to use creatine glucose, glycogen lipids, and if youre cetogenic ketones, we'll talk about citosis. In order to complete that process, of taking these fuels and converting them into energy, most of the time you need oxygen. You have a little pack of glacogin in your liver that you can rely on. And you have fats stored in atipose tissue. It is a storage pack for energy that can be converted to a t p.

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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