162. US Track Championships, Tour de France Science, and Speed Development!
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The Parallel Forces Between Judgment and Perfectionism
I would love to see a randomized control trial, where you test people in the treadmill and don't tell them what grade it is. And then measure their output reduction based on that. I bet if you could somehow turn off your brain from knowing exactly what you're doing with the climbs, you'd be able to put out more power at lower heart rates than if you knew. For me, for whatever reason, sometimes my brain starts to panic a little bit above 12,000 feet. It does have to do with the lack of oxygen up there. But I think in that sense of panic, it's heavily linked to judgment for me. The high country is a perfect place to practice that
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