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The Art of Endurance: Stretching Your Performance Boundaries
Where does endurance come from, and can we increase it to perform beyond our limits? Those are the questions Olympic-class runner turned award-winning journalist Alex Hutchinson tackles in his book Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Examining extraordinary feats of endurance, Hut...
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Where does endurance come from, and can we increase it to perform beyond our limits? Those are the questions Olympic-class runner turned award-winning journalist Alex Hutchinson tackles in his book Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Examining extraordinary feats of endurance, Hutchinson determines that limits aren’t as rigid as they seem – and we can push beyond perceived performance barriers. In this course, you’ll learn why limits are an illusion and how to stretch through yours with techniques from Hutchinson’s book.
Course outline
11 topics · 65 min
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Limits Are an Illusion
- 3 Trick Yourself
- 4 Talk to Yourself
- 5 Tune in to Your Body and Mind
- 6 Rest Your Mind
- 7 Make Pain Your Friend
- 8 Worry Less About Eating and Drinking
- 9 Believe You Can
- 10 Conclusion
- 11 Quiz
The Art of Endurance: Stretching Your Performance Boundaries
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