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Ep 423 - What Defines our Limits - "Endure" author Alex Hutchinson

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4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance author, Alex Hutchinson, joins The Nation to discuss endurance: what it is, what defines our limits and the science that helps us understand it.

Previous Podcasts where we discuss the specific chapters of Endure:

  • Podcast #1: The Unforgiving Minute, The Conscience Quitter, Heat, Belief
  • Podcast #2: The Central Governor Theory, Pain and Training the Brain
  • Podcast #3 : Oxygen, Fuel, and Zapping the Brain

Check out Alex's other books:

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just got sometimes when I can't sleep and I'm just laying there in my path projects gear.

0:10.6

Yeah.

0:11.6

And I'm scrolling.

0:12.6

You're sleeping in your path projects gear and I'm scrolling through the interwebs.

0:15.8

I came across an article in gear junkie gear junkie yeah they they just rated their top

0:21.1

shorts of the year running shorts of the year and guess which was number one path projects

0:26.6

the Sykes PX 5 inch and it's the 5 inch inseam.

0:31.4

It's not like you didn't have competition they had all the big names right underneath

0:35.4

them.

0:36.4

Oh yeah.

0:37.4

And so a couple the the two reasons why they ranked number number one in there in their

0:42.5

pick was the the size of the pockets and where the pockets are placed they're not bouncing

0:48.4

stuff around you can put your big cell phone in there and it doesn't bounce you don't

0:52.1

even feel it back there Scott you have to reach back and wonder if it's still there.

0:55.4

Yeah.

0:56.4

Well I don't know how it does that but it works.

0:59.1

It's magic.

1:00.1

Okay.

1:01.1

And the other thing was is just the fabric how soft the fabric feels against your skin.

1:05.6

The elastic band is not made out of silicone it's big and wide so it doesn't bunch up.

1:11.0

I don't know if you ever use shorts were after a long run you had little chafage right

1:15.7

where there were the elastic band was you don't get that with these.

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