I'm going to be playing the guitar.

Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

So if you're an endurance athlete, you've probably experienced the walls that moment in a

race where you're pushing yourself really hard and your body just tells you that you're

a bosta enough.

You can't go on.

So you start walking or trotting.

Or if you're a strength athlete, you probably experience as well.

You're lifting to weight that was super easy a week before, but now it just feels really,

really heavy and you can't lift it.

And you think maybe this is my body saying that my body's fatigued, I can't go on.

It's just trying to protect itself.

What if the reality is that it's all in your mind and that your body can actually go

further and push itself harder if you can only get over that voice in your head that

saying you can't go on?

Well, my guest today has written a book about this research that's coming out about mind

over muscle and how we can actually push ourselves beyond what we're think we're capable of

by just using a few principles based in neuroscience and psychology.

His name is Matt Fitzgerald.

His book is How Bad Do You Wanted?

Mastering the psychology of mind over muscle.

And today on the podcast, we discussed this research coming out about perceived effort

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