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Dr. Phil Maffetone - Building a Better Athletic Brain

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Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2013

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Maffetone teaches us that

  • the brain's role is often overlooked in training and racing,
  • how to improve brain function through biofeedback stimulation, and
  • how to develop and maintain a better athletic brain.

Buy Dr. Phil Maffetone's Big Book of Endurance Training and Running

Buy The Big Book of Health and Fitness

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Transcript

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0:00.0

another tailwind nutrition tip of the trail comes from Scott war Scott oh

0:11.6

you're you're throwing it at me huh throwing it at you I want you know in the

0:17.4

northern hemisphere it's starting to get a little cool follows in the air the

0:22.2

leaves are starting to turn and it's starting to get a little nippy out in the

0:24.9

morning you gotta like that here is the tailwind nutrition tip of the trail for

0:29.1

we're gonna discuss what gear do you start moving into your fall winter running

0:38.6

how would you modify what you're wearing to meet the climate and I will tell

0:43.5

you the very yeah the very first thing that I grab when it starts getting a

0:48.8

little nippy in the morning yeah are my arms sleeves in fact in fact I like

0:54.0

arm sleeves so many so much I have a polythera of arm sleeves he hides them from

0:59.4

his wife he does not want her to know just how many running shoes I don't care

1:04.0

but I have a lot yeah and I I have so many that I don't ever ever wear a long

1:10.1

sleeve shirt anymore I wear my short sleeve shirts and my arm sleeves and I

1:16.2

think it's a great way especially in the fall when you may start running

1:20.6

early in the morning when it's cold and the arm sleeves are nice because in

1:23.9

if you start getting hot you can just kind of roll those bad boys down and now

1:27.4

you're wearing a short sleeve shirt you know you know Scott I was a bit

1:31.1

resistant in the beginning to go arms sleeves because I had seen them

1:34.5

traditionally on one of those people that do three sports at a time triathletes

1:40.7

all right did they start this yeah they were first of the party we should

1:44.9

probably learn something from them what we did we stole it now we claim it as

1:48.0

our own okay and and so the the guys are wearing that around I say well you

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