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Your Endurance Problem Might Not Be in Your Legs
Endurance training should work the same for everyone doing identical workouts, right? You're putting in the miles, tracking your heart rate, building muscle, and somehow still hitting a wall that other people breeze past. Turns out there's a group of neurons in your hypothalamus that activates after you exercise, and whether those fire correctly has nothing to do with how hard you're trying.
A mouse study proved it by using light to turn specific brain cells on and off. Two mice train identically. One has these neurons working, one has them turned off. The mouse with neurons firing builds…
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