Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance - PART 2

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🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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PART 2. You can listen to PART 1 HERE.

The capacity to endure, from 5K to 240 miles to a relationship is an elusive skill that we search for. Runner and journalist, Alex Hutchinson, exposes us to research that has been done in recent years that will change the paradigm you may have about endurance. He explores the relationship of the mental and the physical and what we have learned from scientists on how we can maximize our potential.

East Coast Executive Producer, Andy Jones-Wilkins rejoins The Nation to discuss three additional chapters in the book, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

Chapter 3: the Central Governor Theory
Chapter 5: Pain
Chapter 11: Training the Brain

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0:00.0	We have that cool new path projects collaborative three quarter length T it just looks good
0:18.3	Scott and what's really cool is it does have a baseball look but I think as ultra runners
0:23.4	we can have a pretty decent softball team we could just keep running laps around the bases
0:30.6	we wouldn't be very fast we wouldn't be stealing any bases but we would be making laps we wouldn't
0:35.5	quit I mean we just keep going yeah until until the umpires were tired of us and the rest of the
0:40.8	people that were watching win home so what is your favorite feature of the three quarter inch trail
0:48.5	runner nation path projects D you know what got me when Scott the the founder we're sitting at
0:54.2	a picnic table and he said the jersey is built in a way that the stitching doesn't limit your
1:00.8	arm motion that it's built to throw baseballs is also built to run with and I thought that guy
1:07.9	is really paying attention to detail about restrictions from threads and friction and
1:13.6	chafage everything that happens because of the construction they look deeper into their product
1:18.4	than I ever have yeah my favorite feature is the ability on the three quarter T is when you
1:25.1	when it's getting a little hotter you can pull the sleeves up and they don't for some I don't know
1:30.4	it's some magic they put in it I don't know what it is but they don't fall back down maybe it's
1:35.2	the hugeness of my biceps I don't think so but when you roll those those sleeves up or when you
1:40.8	push those sleeves up they stay put you know if if I had one piece of path gear that it's just
1:46.3	mandatory it's the bass liners in the shorts because that's where the action happens we're runners
1:51.4	you know that's that's where the action happens it's with the legs are moving back and forth Scott
1:56.4	I don't know where you're going with it but I will tell you that I love my path bass liners
2:01.2	in my shorts and tell the audience what I'm wearing right now you're wearing a pair of knees which
2:05.5	is the hooded functional and very athletics my favorite shirt shirt it has a hood on it they
2:12.1	have spots for your thumbs to come through and a slit for your your garment watch that I see you
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