“Never give up!”
“I give up!” – is that your brain telling you during a high effort exercise or running? Cause: Effort overload Occurrence: Anytime you’re pushing your limits Antidote: Train your brain. It hurts too much. That’s the simplest way to explain why you don’t push a little harder during those crucial final miles. But it’s not quite right. Pain—the feeling that makes you go “ouch!”—isn’t what holds you back. When researchers at Great Britain’s University of Kent ran electric current through the brains of volunteers to dull their sense of pain, using a technique called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), it didn’t improve how subjects feltRead More →