Alex Hutchinson
Exercise-science journalist; writes the Sweat Science column for Outside and a newsletter of the same name, and is the author of Endure and The Explorer’s Gene.
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Their wordsSo this conference session was a good reminder for me: “I love watching you play.” Then move on.
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsHow do you develop durability? That remains a topic of great debate. There is some evidence for thing like strength training, but a big factor may well be nutrition. The great carbohydrate revolution of the past few years, it turns out, might really have been about durability.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsBut in a perfect world, that’s not how you would pace yourself. You would slow down enough on the uphills to keep your VO2 roughly constant, and speed up enough on the downhills to do the same. Instead, our “constant speed” bias overrules our desire for constant effort.
↗Three Science Takeaways From a Long, Hilly Racesweatscience.substack.com
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Their wordsRunning is often thought of as a solitary sport, as are other endurance sports. And it can be. But it can also be a medium of incredible bonding.
↗Three Science Takeaways From a Long, Hilly Racesweatscience.substack.com
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe takeaway? Aerobic fitness is crucial, even for shorter events. That, in a nutshell, is why runners and cyclists and swimmers and other endurance athletes do so much mileage, even if their event only lasts a few minutes.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsIt’s that the full picture of any scientific debate is almost always more complex than what you get from skimming abstracts. It’s always worth checking out the actual data.
↗When Reading the Abstract Isn’t Enoughsweatscience.substack.com