How Bad Do You Want It?

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 October 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Author, Nutritionist, endurance athlete and coach, Matt Fitzgerald, joins the Nation to talk about what motivates us and how to train our brain to push our limits to a higher level. In his new book, "How Bad Do you Want It: Mastering the Psychology of Mind Over Muscle", he relates exciting stories of athletes that have pushed beyond their mental limits to achieve extraordinary results. As Matt relates what recent studies in neuroscience has taught us and how we can incorporate that into our training. This is all woven into a dozen heart-pounding stories of endurance athletes.

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0:00.0	Well, I'm going to bring you something that I'm experiencing right now and we kind of brought
0:12.7	it up on the last podcast with Martin DeGarde in his book and we talked about just putting
0:18.0	in the time, just getting up every day and on your training days and just don't expect
0:24.3	any miracles, don't expect it to happen fast and just keep it up and all of a sudden
0:29.8	bang out of nowhere comes fitness.
0:32.1	It just shows up on your doorstep that here you are, it just shows up on your doorstep.
0:36.9	That has been my experience with this returning to fitness and you go through it over and
0:43.3	over again because you're never always at your peak.
0:45.6	So I'm just waiting at home for it to show up on my doorstep.
0:48.8	What you're saying is I have to leave.
0:50.4	You have to open the door.
0:51.5	Oh, okay.
0:52.5	And so that's what I've really been experiencing right now and it's real fun to watch the process
0:59.6	happen.
1:00.6	When all of a sudden you're closing in on that last stretch and you go, it's happened.
1:05.7	It happened.
1:06.7	I'm there.
1:07.7	And it's just, it's like Christmas and August.
1:11.5	And that's what tailwind nutrition is like.
1:13.6	Once you try it, you're going to go, where have you been all my life?
1:18.7	Is that right, Scott?
1:19.7	That's what, that's why I, that's when I first tried and I went, okay, this stuff, first
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