whatever increases or reduces perception of effort is going to have an effect on performance.

Dead Traathlon Show, Episode 17.

Hey, welcome back to That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

As always, I'm your host, Michael, and on today's episode, we get into some real nitty-gritty

science. But don't let that scary off off because there's so much that you can learn

from this interview that we have that will guaranteed improve your training and racing in fact

i'd probably go as far as saying that today's interview has the potential to improve your

triathlon performances just as much as many, many months of really dedicated training

if you take it to heart and apply this because it's so revolutionary in a way just knowing these

things. So what are we talking about today? Well, it's in technical terms the psychobiology of

endurance performance and brain endurance training and in layman's terms

it could potentially be described as mind or matter although that's not exactly the right

way to describe it because you can't just think your way to becoming a faster triathlet but what you

do your mind plays a big part in it and how you perceive your effort and so on.

And that's what we're going to get into.

My guest today is Professor Samuel Marikora, who is the director of research at the School of Sports and Exercise Science at the University of Kent.

And he is the leading expert on the field

of psychobiology and endurance performance. And he has done extensive research on the topic.

And he has shown with his team that endurance performance is not just limited by our physiological

fitness, but also by our minds and our mental fitness.

And a newer concept than this is the concept of brain endurance training, which is still experimental, but very interesting, very fascinating.

So we talk about that as well.

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