EP 515: Can Science Trump Intuition?
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
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🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Alex Hutchinson rejoins The Nation to help us understand the latest research as it relates to endurance sports. We discuss:
- What Marathoners (and Badminton Players) Think About
- Yes, Walking is Sometimes Faster Than Running Uphill
- Don't Judge a Runner's Efficiency by Their Stride
- Scientists Weigh in on the Great Trekking Pole Debate
Listed to our podcast series with Andy Jones-Wilkins and Magda Boulet as we discuss each chapter of Alex's Book, Endure: Mind,Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance:
- Podcast #1: The Unforgiving Minute, The Conscience Quitter, Heat, Belief
- Podcast #2: The Central Governor Theor, Pain and Training the Brain
- Podcast #3: Oxygen, Fuel, and Zapping the Brain
- What Defines our Limits - with Alex Hutchinson
Follow Alex on Twitter
Check out Sweat Science
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| 0:00.0 | And I think, you know, this study is like many, many, many others that I've written about |
| 0:09.0 | where you get all the way down to the bottom and you sort through all the equations and |
| 0:13.0 | the data and you're like, so what you're telling me is that I should trust my instincts |
| 0:17.8 | that actually I knew more than I did. |
| 0:20.5 | So if I'd just never read this study in the first place, I would have been ahead. |
| 0:25.8 | We'd like to thank our partner, ExoSkin. |
| 0:28.6 | And on today's podcast, we'll be speaking to Alex Hutchinson about intuition and science. |
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| 1:22.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, of the wide world wide ultra running community, you are listening |
| 1:31.2 | to nothing less than the greatest trail running nation podcast on earth. |
| 1:37.0 | It is the trail runner nation podcast. |
| 1:40.2 | So I know it's on the upper edge and you guys have won a couple of awards. |
| 1:44.5 | Just because the facts aren't accurate, don't worry about it. |
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