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The Neuroscience of Ultrarunning with Scott Frey, PhD | KoopCast Episode #182
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Episode overview:
Dr. Scott H. Frey is an internationally renowned neuroscientist, psychologist, accomplished endurance athlete, author, and teacher. Scott helps individuals and groups identify and realize their aspirations. He can be reached at: Scott@CerebralPerformance.com
Episode highlights:
(33:42) Factors that reduce pain tolerance: sleep deprivation, anxiety and stress, limited mental bandwidth, maximizing cognitive reserve, automate your race strategy
(44:49) Time-course for adaptation to pain: physical analogy, relatively acute increased ability to recruit motor units over the short term, chronic adaptations to training, psychology follows a similar trend
(55:48) How to practice mental skills: mental skills for intervals are different from mental skills for long runs, simulate the race environment mentally as well as physically, CerebralPerformance.com
Additional resources:
Buy Training Essentials for Ultrarunning on Amazon or Audible.
Information on coaching-https://trainright.com/
Koop’s Social Media
Twitter/Instagram- @jasonkoop
224 episodes
Manage episode 364887049 series 2579366
View all show notes and timestamps on the KoopCast website.
Episode overview:
Dr. Scott H. Frey is an internationally renowned neuroscientist, psychologist, accomplished endurance athlete, author, and teacher. Scott helps individuals and groups identify and realize their aspirations. He can be reached at: Scott@CerebralPerformance.com
Episode highlights:
(33:42) Factors that reduce pain tolerance: sleep deprivation, anxiety and stress, limited mental bandwidth, maximizing cognitive reserve, automate your race strategy
(44:49) Time-course for adaptation to pain: physical analogy, relatively acute increased ability to recruit motor units over the short term, chronic adaptations to training, psychology follows a similar trend
(55:48) How to practice mental skills: mental skills for intervals are different from mental skills for long runs, simulate the race environment mentally as well as physically, CerebralPerformance.com
Additional resources:
Buy Training Essentials for Ultrarunning on Amazon or Audible.
Information on coaching-https://trainright.com/
Koop’s Social Media
Twitter/Instagram- @jasonkoop
224 episodes
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