The Neuroscience of Ultrarunning Part 2-A Coach Roundtable | KoopCast Episode #183

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Episode overview:

Coaches Jason Koop, AJW, and Neal Palles discuss the takeaways from last week’s podcast with Dr. Scott Frey.

Episode highlights:

(6:36) Adjusting training for life stress: methodologies, acceptance and awareness, using RPE, experiential training and pain, “taper” your cognitive load

(23:46) Koop’s takeaway: your relationship with workout-related pain is malleable, athletes see short-term improvement from intensity workouts that physiology cannot explain, examples, individual variation

(42:53) DNF spiral: the DNF prediction machine, team sports example, hard interventions to break the cycle, examples

Additional resources:

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