Certified running coaches, sports MDs, exercise physiologists, PhDs: 1. Why does heat exposure in the sauna help increase time to exhaustion? What is happening physiologically? 2. 2023 research published in Scientific Reports found practicing just five minutes of hopping each day can help improve running economy—or the amount of energy your body uses at a given pace—in amateur athletes. How does improved running economy translate to increased time to exhaustion? 3. Athletes who followed a five-week mindfulness training program demonstrated more resistance to fatigue than those who didn’t practice mindfulness in a 2020 study published in the journal Neural Plasticity. What could be leading to that increase endurance? 4. What does does consistent strength training do to the body that increases time to exhaustion? 5. Caffeine intake showed a meaningful ergogenic effect in increasing the time to exhaustion in running trials in a 2022 study. What’s the best way for runners to take caffeine to maximize the endurance effects? 6. A 2022 study found that listening to preferred music during a running time trial led to a 10% increase in total distance covered. How does music help boost endurance, physiologically?

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