Walter Staiano, PhD, is a researcher and performance consultant specialising in mental fatigue, mindfulness in athletic performance, and the mechanisms that increase and decrease perception of effort and thereby endurance performance.  

 

IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:

-How mindfulness training can impact athletic, cognitive and social performance

-How mental fatigue arises, how it impacts endurance sports performance and how to manage and minimise mental fatigue

-What Brain Endurance Training (BET) is and how it has the potential to improve endurance performance beyond the benefits of physical training. 

 

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LINKS AND RESOURCES:

• Walter's Research Gate profile
• Brain training and psychobiology of endurance performance with professor Samuele Marcora | EP#17
• Mind, body, and the curiously elastic limits of human performance with Alex Hutchinson | EP#101
• Yes, Mindfulness Makes You a Better Athlete
• Here’s What We Know About Mental Fatigue

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