What's up everybody? It's Dr. L. here with Spartan Mind, your chief mind dock at Spartan.

Today we're talking about building endurance.

Now, if you're tying those shoelaces

for those trail running shoes, not that kind of endurance.

I'm not Charlie Engel, I'm not Scott Jurek,

and I'm certainly not Courtney De Walter.

However, I can talk to you about the endurance in your mind, right?

So how do you build mental endurance? Because some of those physical activities, some of those long trail runs, some of those endurance runs, the ultra beast, the beast, yeah, you're going to need mental endurance for that.

So how do you build it? Well the first way is to practice. Put yourself in a position that's difficult for you. Something that you don't like tolerating, you know, taking a cold shower or being in somewhere that's really hot for a little bit,

even like just putting your hand in a bowl of ice,

and see how long you can go tolerating that pain

by using a mental mantra, right?

By allowing your mind to go in a position where you say something repetitively over and

over again to get you into that flow state, okay?

So that's one step of building mental endurance is practicing through

actual practice, like through actual doing, okay? Now again, doing something that maybe

isn't exactly what you're going to do for the

endurance run like putting your hand in a bowl of ice I mean maybe there's a

competition for that but I don't know but it's going to help you build up that

stamina and more than anything but it's going to help you build up that stamina.

And more than anything, build up that know-how

so that you know that your mind can actually tolerate it.

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