EP 633: Training Your Brain to Outlast the Long Run
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Good friend, Dr. Phil Maffetone, joins us again to help us understand how important music can be to improve the neuroplasticity of your brain and enter the alpha state. What does this mean for an endurance runner? Dr. Maffetone explains why you should care!
Previous episodes with Dr. Maffetone:
- Get Stronger with Dr. Phil Maffetone
- Why is Weight-Loss so Difficult Even for Runners? Dr. Phil Maffetone
- Daydreaming is Healthy for Runners
- Dr. Phil Maffetone Unplugged
- Dr. Phil Maffetone was RIGHT all along!
- Take Your Shirt Off and Get Some Vitamin D - with Dr. Phil Maffetone
- Phil Maffetone: How can Rhythm Improve Your Efficiency?
- Breaking the 1:59 marathon with Dr. Phil Maffetone
- Dr. Phil Maffetone - Building a Better Athletic Brain
- Phil Maffetone transcribed!
- Eat to Win with Dr. Phil Maffetone.
- Dr. Phil Maffetone - Speed up by slowing down
Links:
- Dr. Phil's Big Books:
- Dr. Phil's web site
- Phil Maffetone's music site
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We can have brain function that continues to improve until the day we die. |
| 0:08.9 | Because our brain can repair, we can grow new brain cells, and we have this neuroplasticity |
| 0:16.0 | thing where we expand the mind by making connections in the brain we've never made before, |
| 0:21.0 | which means we can do more than we could do, you know, five minutes or so. |
| 0:37.2 | Welcome to the Trailhead of Trail Runner Nation, where we go on virtual trail runs with interesting |
| 0:42.8 | guests that help us become better runners, fitter runners, and hopefully better human beings. |
| 0:49.4 | The trail is open. There's miles of trail. Everyone is welcome. Please join in. |
| 0:54.8 | Today, we're joined again with Dr. Phil Maffatone, who has written so many great books and another |
| 1:00.4 | one. We're going to have a great discussion about something you wouldn't expect to hear |
| 1:05.6 | on a running podcast that will make you a better runner. And certainly Scott, you'll appreciate |
| 1:11.0 | this even better person. |
| 1:13.6 | Every morning starts out with AG1. You know, I know it's morning Scott, because I have a glass |
| 1:21.3 | full of AG1. Let me tell you something that I don't know why I didn't pay attention to the |
| 1:26.3 | directions when I was using AG1. But it says to shake the AG1 for like a few minutes. I used to |
| 1:34.5 | just put the age, the scoop of AG1 in there, shake it like three or four times and down it. |
| 1:39.6 | After I started shaking it for like two minutes, boy, it smooths the drink out. Boy, |
| 1:45.6 | it is like silk on my tongue, Don. That's a little strong. Scott's silk on the tongue. |
| 1:51.6 | But did you read the back of the package where it says AG1 has 75 vitamins, minerals, |
| 1:56.5 | and whole food source nutrients in one convenient daily serving? That's just one scoop, |
| 2:03.0 | eight ounces of water. That's all you need really. |
| 2:05.8 | Improve your health and immunity with AG1's conveniently daily nutrition. |
| 2:10.1 | And you can get a free one year supply of immune supporting vitamin D and five free |
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