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It all begins before you approach your training session, and it begins in your brain. Will you be seeking pain, or will you stop your set at the first sign of discomfort?
Your brain tolerance for pain is going to be the deciding factor governing whether you push on or stop. Most of us believe that our limitations are physically based, and our strength is determined by our physical abilities. However our brain’s tolerance for pain does play a decisive and significant role in how far we can push into that territory where only few dare to tread.
Your pain tolerance may be the ultimate key to your performance, and this tolerance of pain that is brought on by exercise isn’t necessarily just something you’re born with. Dr. Alexis Mauger believes that, like aerobic capacity or lactate threshold, tolerance is malleable, that is to say, pain tolerance can indeed be trained. In part, he says, it’s about: “Learning to break through a conservative pain barrier so that you can operate closer to a true physiological limit.”
In other words, your brain tells you to stop before your body really has to. So do you seek (or welcome) pain, or do you shy away from it? That is the question.
https://www.kent.ac.uk/sportsciences/staff/l-mauger.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life...an-learn-from-elite-athletes/article16627887/
Your brain tolerance for pain is going to be the deciding factor governing whether you push on or stop. Most of us believe that our limitations are physically based, and our strength is determined by our physical abilities. However our brain’s tolerance for pain does play a decisive and significant role in how far we can push into that territory where only few dare to tread.
Your pain tolerance may be the ultimate key to your performance, and this tolerance of pain that is brought on by exercise isn’t necessarily just something you’re born with. Dr. Alexis Mauger believes that, like aerobic capacity or lactate threshold, tolerance is malleable, that is to say, pain tolerance can indeed be trained. In part, he says, it’s about: “Learning to break through a conservative pain barrier so that you can operate closer to a true physiological limit.”
In other words, your brain tells you to stop before your body really has to. So do you seek (or welcome) pain, or do you shy away from it? That is the question.
https://www.kent.ac.uk/sportsciences/staff/l-mauger.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life...an-learn-from-elite-athletes/article16627887/
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