How to Boost Your Stamina, With Magazine Columnist Alex Hutchinson
Our guest this week is Outside columnist Alex Hutchinson, author of Enduring: The Mind, Body, and the Surprisingly Elastic Limits of Human Action . We discuss that endurance is a skill that includes drive and faith as much as muscle, and how we all have the potential to go further, work harder, and achieve more.
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Discussed in this episode
- How to keep going when your mind tells you to stop
- Why does our brain tell us to stop exercising if it’s good for you?
- Why is it really difficult for us to bring ourselves to complete exhaustion ?
- How much progress can you make in expanding your own limits?
- Practical ways to increase your own endurance
- How self-talk can boost your stamina
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