Maybe if we're not such great athletes, we're far too concerned about performance.

And your best performance is when you don't really worry about the performance.

And you just go out and exercise and you do it.

That Trafflam show, the podcast presented by ScientificTraflon.com.

I'm your host, Michael, and for many of you, today's interviewee

needs no introduction whatsoever. He has published more than 750 scientific books and articles.

He has been cited more than 16,000 times in scientific literature. His book, Law of Running, is considered the Bible of the sport.

Much like we triathletes have Joe Freels, the Triathlet's Training Bible.

Runners have lore of running.

He has been fiscally active all his life and has run more than 70 marathons and ultra

marathons, including seven comrades marathons, which is an 89-kilometer road ultra in his home country, South Africa.

I'm talking about Professor Tim Noakes.

So we have split the interview with Professor Noakes in two, and today's part, part one, is about the central governor model and how the brain limits what you can perform in triathlon racing and how you can train yourself to at least partially override that.

You learn things like how big an impact the brain really has on your performance.

What you should do and to try and override

the perceived barriers to performance that your brain imposes on you, and how the balance between

perception of fatigue and willingness to take on more fatigue ultimately determines how

much you can push yourself in your race. In the next episode, episode 44, we'll then talk about LCHF, low-carb,

high-fat diet, which is another area of expertise of Professor Noakes. And that will be coming out

this first day if you listen to this show as it comes out on a Monday. But that's for then,

for now. Enjoy this interview with Professor Noakes and make sure to take the opportunity to learn how massive a difference

your mind can really make to your triathlon performance. All right. So on today's episode of That Tralon Show, it's my great, great pleasure and honor to welcome Professor Tim Noakes to the show.

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