About this episode
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