On this week’s episode, crowd favourite Dr Alex Hutchinson PhD returns to discuss the difference between effort and pain in the world of endurance. A former Canadian national team middle- and long-distance runner and Cambridge-trained physicist, Alex is an award winning author and columnist who writes for Outside magazine and The Toronto Globe and Mail.
Want to learn more about the science of suffering? Follow @Sweat Science on Twitter and check out his book Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance.