Book · 2018 · Sports & Recreation
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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I recently did a podcast with Alex Hutchinson who wrote a book called endure if you haven't read it yet I would HIGHLY advise getting out.
Chris Williamson · Modern Wisdom · Jan 2019 Listen at 13:51 What they say about it
- Highly recommends the book“if you haven't read it yet”3
- Calls it an all-time favorite“one of my all-time favorites”2
The best things said about it
Perhaps the best book ever written on the science of endurance.
Rich Roll The Rich Roll Podcast · Mar 2025 Your book Endure I just shared with you is one of my all-time favorites.
Rich Roll The Rich Roll Podcast · Mar 2025 He was a very early guest on the show when his uh when his book endure came out which I still think is like you know that sets the bar for everybody else it it is.
Rich Roll The Rich Roll Podcast · Jan 2025 If someone wants a more sporty side book, amazing, absolutely fantastic.
Chris Williamson Modern Wisdom · Dec 2018 In this, what he does is he discusses the different contributing factors to what makes an endurance athlete successful.
Chris Williamson Modern Wisdom · Dec 2018 Why people recommend it
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson is a science-based exploration of the psychological and physical boundaries of human endurance. Rich Roll praised the work on The Rich Roll Podcast as perhaps the greatest book ever written on endurance science, noting that it has maintained a permanent spot on his coffee table. Hutchinson appeared as a guest on the show to reflect on the legacy of the book, mentioning research concepts like electric brain stimulation that he had documented which eventually faded from modern sports science. Chris Williamson also offered high praise for the title across multiple episodes of Modern Wisdom, strongly advising listeners and guests like Dr. Rick Hanson and Christie Aschwanden to pick up the book for a deep dive into sports physiology and the mental mechanisms operating during physical training. Across various podcast appearances, hosts and the author himself continually referenced the text as the definitive benchmark for understanding how the brain regulates physical fatigue and pushes past perceived limits.
Every mention
Chris Williamson I recently did a podcast with Alex Hutchinson who wrote a book called endure if you haven't read it yet I w… 5
Discussed
“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”
Discussed
“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”
Recommended
“I recently did a podcast with Alex Hutchinson who wrote a book called endure if you haven't read it yet I would HIGHLY advise getting out”
Discussed
“and where does the book start”
Discussed
“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”
Recommended
“by Alex Hutchinson oh my god if someone wants a more sporty side book amazing absolutely fantastic”
Discussed
“I recently did a podcast, an amazing podcast, with Alex Hutchinson who wrote a book called Endure. And in this, what he does is he discusses the different um contributing factors to what makes an endurance athlete successful.”
Rich Roll this former Elite Track and Field a aete and Cambridge trained physicist turned journalist and New York Tim… 2
Recommended
“this former Elite Track and Field a aete and Cambridge trained physicist turned journalist and New York Times bestselling author of endure which I might add is perhaps the best book ever written on the science of endurance”
Recommended
“the Explorer Gene your book endure I just shared with you is one of my all-time favorites it's always been sitting on that coffee table over there”
Recommended
“he was a very early guest on the show when his uh when his book endure came out which I still think is like you know that sets the bar for everybody else it it is”
Alex Hutchinson it's like endar did really well do I now write endar too you know the Revenge of the science of endurance u… 1
Discussed
“it's like endar did really well do I now write endar too you know the Revenge of the science of endurance um and that you know and it wouldn't have been called inar too”
Discussed
“so electric brain stimulation is a great example of that where there was really good data and I wrote about it in Ure no one's talks about that anymore”
Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged
“Uh I I wrote a book about endurance in 2018. And this is not intended as a gratuitous plug for that book, but the the the book did well and it was the culmination of about 10 years, let's say, of really focusing in on the science of endurance.”
Plugged
“also enjoy Alex's book absolutely fantastic great analysis if you're into this”
Passing
“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”
Plugged
“recently wrote a book called endure mind body and the curiously elastic limits of human performance”
Plugged
“Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance”
Plugged
“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”
Plugged
“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”
Plugged
“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”