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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a longer one, part of the series where I interview

fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any advice they

have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome Dr. James Hewitt to the show.

James is a human performance scientist and the author of the book, Regenerative Performance. So James,

welcome to the show. Thank you. It's great to be here. Yeah, why don't you tell our listeners a little

bit about yourself? So I've been fascinated with human performance for as long as I can remember,

and certainly a long time before I called it human performance. That fascination started when I was a kid. I was always fascinated

by anything that went fast. So think space rockets, racing cars, anything with wheels. And eventually,

that interest led me to discover this sport called road cycling, racing. And so I was enamored by this idea that you can

hit speeds of 100 kilometres an hour on tyres, a few centimetres thick. And it's amazing what

you can convince yourself is a good idea before your prefrontal cortex is fully developed. But to cut

a long story short, and I moved to the Santa France to pursue this dream of becoming a pro cyclist, that didn't work out.

So I returned to the UK to study sports science, eventually set up a coaching business, ended up working with what I call knowledge workers now, so people who think for a living, because I found out that as much as I wanted to work with pro athletes, they couldn't afford to pay me. And ended up working with these really interesting people who had very

demanding jobs in London where I was based at the time, who for some reason, after working 80 hours

a week, wanted to go and race 180 miles every weekend. And this led to this fascination with the workplace, but also this revelation

that the same things that were holding them back from performing well on their bike were also

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