Dr. Alex Hutchinson: The Science of Suffering
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We can not get enough of Alex Hutchinson’s book, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (2018) this year. His book takes a detailed look into the science of endurance and covers heat, hydration, nutrition, and all the things that we love to think about! Alex takes us through many of the topics in his book and gives us some insight into how the brain may ultimately be the limiter on our ability to suffer, and how changing our perception of pain can expand the limits of our endurance. As an added bonus, we talk briefly with Erin Cafaro, a 2x Olympic Gold Medalist in rowing, about how she thinks about and manages pain while competing. Alex joined us via Skype from Toronto.
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| 1:05.8 | No brainer. Hey, everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 1:19.6 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 1:21.1 | And this is the Ready State. |
| 1:30.5 | We are so excited to welcome Dr. Alex Hutchinson to the podcast today. |
| 1:35.7 | You know, Kelly and I read a lot of books around our house, although often they are not |
| 1:39.3 | the same books since Kelly loves to read about my feelings. |
| 1:42.5 | Exclusively sci-fi. |
| 1:44.8 | But one great exception to that is the book that Alex wrote called Endure Mind, Body and |
| 1:51.4 | Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, which we both read, just came out this year, |
| 1:56.5 | and we both read quickly and enthusiastically, and it was the subject of many dinner conversations. |
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