Sweat Science: The Pull-Up Artists

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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John Orth is a violin maker from Colorado. Andrew Shapiro is a college kid from Virginia. They have little in common except that for the last two years they’ve been trading back and forth the world record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours. Over the summer, they both set their sights on 10,000 pull-ups. It’s a number that would have been unthinkable two years ago; a number that seemed like it would reveal the very limits of what the human body can do. Instead, they found a different limit.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Clever By Nature, a company using innovative design to take carbon out of the carbon cycle.
0:08.0	Here's how it works.
0:10.0	Clever by nature works with outdoor companies and gearmakers, identifying ways to make their manufacturing process more sustainable,
0:17.0	maybe figuring out a way to save water, or source materials differently,
0:21.0	or upgrade machinery in the factory.
0:24.0	The kind of changes that are good for the planet, but kind of expensive up front.
0:28.8	Clever by nature identifies the changes that manufacturers should make, and then partners with a different
0:33.6	company or group of buyers, maybe even you to offer an exclusive limited run of
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0:49.8	finds buyers for that jacket ahead of time, guaranteeing that if this jacket gets made, it will sell.
0:56.7	The manufacturer, safe in the knowledge that they won't lose any money, then makes those
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1:38.8	Yeah, I think the big question that underlies the whole pursuit of limits is when I push to what feels like my limit is that everything that my body has to give.
1:58.0	And there's an idea that's called the central governor these days thanks to a scientist named Tim
2:04.6	Nokes who proposed this idea in the 1990s somehow we're hardwired not to be able
2:10.6	to push all the way to the point where we sort of keel over on the savanna while chasing the antelope and die.
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