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Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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9 minute read
Published Feb 6, 2018
What you'll learn
What are the limits of endurance? And is it the body or the mind that sets those limits? In Endure, athlete and scientist Alex Hutchinson travels the globe and interviews hundreds of sports scientists, coaches, and athletes to explore how the brain and body work together to set limits on our endurance—and how those limits can be broken.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 The physiology and psychology behind endurance are intimately intertwined in ways scientists continue to discover.
- 2 The body-as-machine view is inadequate, given how few bodies actually “break down.”
- 3 The brain plays a significant role in dictating endurance’s limits.
- 4 Your brain will alert you to crisis conditions well before there’s any real emergency.
- 5 Improving endurance comes down to adjusting the “effort dial” in your brain.
- 6 We should stop hating on placebos if they lead to psychological and physiological benefit and improved performance.
- 7 The strong legacy of world-class Kenyan athletes shows us the power of belief.
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