Endure Quotes

“In 1865, for example, a pair of German scientists collected their own urine while hiking up the Faulhorn, an 8,000-foot peak in the Bernese Alps, then measured its nitrogen content to establish that protein alone couldn’t supply all the energy needed for prolonged exertion.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“brain-altering drugs like Tylenol that boost endurance without any effect on the muscles or heart.23”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“The Winning Mind Set, a 2006 self-help book by Jim Brault and Kevin Seaman, which uses Bannister’s four-minute mile as a parable about the importance of self-belief. “[W]ithin one year, 37 others did the same thing,” they write. “In the year after that, over 300 runners ran a mile in less than four minutes.” Similar larger-than-life (that is, utterly fictitious) claims are a staple in motivational seminars and across the Web: once Bannister showed the way, others suddenly brushed away their mental barriers and unlocked their true potential.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“Under normal circumstances, it’s very rare for people to reach the limits of their cold tolerance if they’re appropriately dressed,”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“sprint fearlessly to an enormous early lead in the women’s 1,500, click off lap after metronomic lap all alone,”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“But Landy’s enigma isn’t that he wasn’t quite good enough. It’s that he clearly was.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“By the time I ran what would turn out to be my fastest 5,000, on a perfect evening in Palo Alto, California, in 2003, I’d decided I needed a new mental strategy: I would pretend I was only running 4,000 meters, and simply not worry if I had to jog the last kilometer. I wanted to run 2:45 per kilometer, and my first three kilometers were 2:45, 2:45, 2:47. The moment of truth: I knuckled down and vowed to run the fourth kilometer as hard as I could—but little by little, I drifted back from the pack I was running with.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“endurance is “the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop.”5 That’s”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“In the end, the most effective limit-changers are still the simplest—so simple that we’ve barely mentioned them. If you want to run faster, it’s hard to improve on the training haiku penned by Mayo Clinic physiologist Michael Joyner, the man whose 1991 journal paper foretold the two-hour-marathon chase: Run a lot of miles Some faster than your race pace Rest once in a while22”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“Run a lot of miles Some faster than your race pace Rest once in a while22”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“In 2015, Staiano and Marcora presented recently declassified results from a military-funded study of thirty-five volunteers who had trained three times a week for an hour at a time on stationary bikes. Half of the volunteers did brain training while cycling, using the flashing-letters test that I had tried. After twelve weeks, the physical-training-only group had improved their time to exhaustion by 42 percent; in comparison the physical-plus-brain-training group had improved by a whopping 126 percent.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“Most American climbers, Twight argues, “are scared to be hungry, or they wouldn’t carry so much damn food.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“Burke and others published a pair of studies in 2016 using a protocol dubbed “sleep low,” which involved a high-quality carbohydrate-fueled workout in the late afternoon, followed by a carbohydrate-free dinner; then, the next morning, a carbohydrate-depleted moderate workout before breakfast.38 Repeating this cycle just three times, for a total of six days, produced a 3 percent improvement in 20-kilometer cycling times.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“Without a time machine (and a rectal probe), it’s impossible to settle the debate one way or the other—but we can rule out heatstroke.”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

“psychology”
― Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance