KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS: How I Survived the Hardest Year of My Life

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Swimming is the ultimate. Your joints don't hurt afterwards. It's truly a skill to pick up for life that'll carry you all the way to old age.

Shane Gillis

Ep 621 - Landlubbers

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Every time I get an alert to my thing being like blah blah blah started a workout, I'm like, fucking bastard. Fuck. I check my enemies every day.

Shane Gillis

Ep 621 - Landlubbers

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Turns out you don't really need them. They're bullshit. Sorry to break it to you guys, exercise physiologists and doctors.

Shane Gillis

Ep 621 - Landlubbers

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Stress drives adaptation. He called it general adaptation syndrome, the general adaptation response, because what stress is, is your body acknowledging that you need to respond to some external stimulus. And so stress diverts resources so that you can then adapt to that stimulus.

Tommy Wood

Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitiv…

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I get about one every 2 years, 3 years. Jet lag. So if you have a big speech, try and get there a day early.

Scott Galloway

Fixing AI's Branding Problem + Advice f…

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There are studies that show that giving people caffeine makes them feel like they're performing better, but they're actually performing worse on certain cognitive tasks. People who take caffeine feel like they're performing better, but they're actually performing worse.

Tommy Wood

Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitiv…

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I like to call nutrients the great leveler. There's no point in arguing about different diets because your body requires these nutrients. I don't care where you get them from as long as you get them.

Tommy Wood

Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitiv…

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That's why that kind of endogenous increase in arousal using things like exercise is a much more reliable way to improve performance, because you don't get this dissociation between how you feel and how you perform.

Tommy Wood

Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitiv…

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How an athlete feels is a much better predictor of their performance than their HRV or any of their blood tests.

Tommy Wood

Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitiv…

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