Why people recommend it
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson is a scientific exploration of the psychological and physiological boundaries that govern athletic endurance and human stamina. On the podcast Modern Wisdom, host Chris Williamson frequently engaged with the themes of the book during multiple episodes in early 2019. In January 2019, Williamson hosted Hutchinson himself, asking the author about where the project began and what discoveries he made regarding how the brain can be trained to deploy the body's physical capabilities more efficiently. A few months later, in April 2019, Williamson welcomed guest Christie Aschwanden to the show and noted that Hutchinson was a major proponent of her work on sports recovery. During that conversation, Williamson drew directly from Hutchinson's research, discussing the concept of rate of perceived exertion, which Williamson playfully readapted into the rate of perceived discomfort. Across these discussions, the host emphasized how Hutchinson's insights challenge conventional wisdom about physical fatigue, demonstrating that the limits of human performance are heavily mediated by the brain rather than just muscular exhaustion.
Who recommended it
- Chris Williamson Discussed
Chris Williamson — 4 mentions
“okay recently some of the guests will know the spot on the back of your book that mr. Alex Hutchinson the the man behind injure is a big proponent a big big supporter of your book and obviously what he was talking about was a lot of the things to do within training what's happening while you train and the”
“what's very interesting about that and I'm sure that some of the listeners will be agreeing with me is that in injure by Alex Hutchinson what he talks about is RPE or as I've kind of readapted it the rate of perceived discomfort the RPD all right”
“and where does the book start”
“so what during your discovery during over the research for the book did you discover helps with moving the brain towards a more efficient deployment of the body's capabilities”
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“this week I'm sitting down with Christy Ashwin Dhin who is the author of good to go what the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery that one of my favorite episodes so far was with Alex Hutchinson on the limits of human performance as he explained what he discovered during research for his”
“recently wrote a book called endure mind body and the curiously elastic limits of human performance”
“and in fact I'll jump right in with the definition that I ended up using in the book which is the endurance is the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop”
“so basically what I tried to do in the book is I tried to sort of attack my this claim that we've just been talking about that it's all perception of effort”
“so so those are the sort of counter arguments that you have to think about and say okay but Alex before you write a book that that claims that in the limits of endurance are all in your head”
“Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance”