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That Triathlon Show

Mindfulness, Mental Fatigue, and Brain Endurance Training with Walter Staiano, PhD | EP#207

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Walter Staiano, PhD, is a researcher and performance consultant specialising in mental fatigue, mindfulness in athletic performance, and the mechanisms that increase and decrease perception of effort and thereby endurance performance.     IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -How mindfulness training can impact athletic, cognitive and social performance -How mental fatigue arises, how it impacts endurance sports performance and how to manage and minimise mental fatigue -What Brain Endurance Training (BET) is and how it has the potential to improve endurance performance beyond the benefits of physical training.    SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts207/   THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com   SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free!    ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Get 20% off your entire order with the discount code TTS.    LINKS AND RESOURCES: Walter's Research Gate profile Brain training and psychobiology of endurance performance with professor Samuele Marcora | EP#17 Mind, body, and the curiously elastic limits of human performance with Alex Hutchinson | EP#101 Yes, Mindfulness Makes You a Better Athlete Here’s What We Know About Mental Fatigue RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/   CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0

One of those ones, for example, like there seems to work in altering perception of effort when you start being tired.

0:08.1

Like we were talking before about this positive self-talk.

0:12.4

Okay, positive self-talk is actually working.

0:17.3

That Treiton Show, 207.

0:37.7

Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show.

0:41.1

The podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

0:48.1

I'm your host Michael and in this episode I interview Walter Sayano, who is a PhD, researcher and neuroperformance consultant from Italy working at the University of Valencia.

0:54.1

And we discuss topics like mindfulness in athletic performance. consultant from Italy, working at the University of Valencia.

1:02.2

And we discuss topics like mindfulness in athletic performance, mental fatigue, as well as brain endurance training.

1:06.5

I think it's an absolutely fascinating topic or set of topics.

1:09.1

And it was a great chat with Walter.

1:12.2

So we'll get right into it after thanking our sponsors.

1:16.1

Precision hydration that you can find on precision hydration.com.

1:19.7

It's winter and in the Northern Hemisphere at least,

1:21.4

and the base training is upon us.

1:23.6

A lot of indoor riding.

1:26.6

I just got off the bike from a three-hour ride,

1:30.6

and I sweated buckets to say the least and I had to basically mop the floor after that. And fortunately I had a lot of good hydration with me,

1:36.7

including a couple of 500 millilitre bottles of precision hydration. I use pH 1000 generally in my

1:43.6

training rides, even though I might actually go to

1:46.8

pH 1500 sometimes. But either way, if you do long and hard rides like the one that I just did,

1:53.7

then your performance can actually start to fall apart if you don't take care of the electrolyte intake

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