The Effects of Endurance Workouts on Brain Function

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High intensity and long duration work has been shown to have positive effects on brain function. Not through the addition of new neurons, that's not a major event in exercised or non exercised human brain. But it still has many positive effects through the delivery of things like i g f one, but also just plain oxygenation of the brain. If you don't give oxygen to neurons, if you don't deliver enough to them, you get what's called eschemia. You get little micro strokes.

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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