Dr. Duncan French

Now, as soon as fatigue is influencing that repetition, it's time to stop.

And the best coaches understand that.

It's shorter sessions that are very high quality.

And I think the best athletes, in my experience, are the ones that consciously and cognitively

are aware of it at every moment of the training session, a three hour session versus a 90 minute session.

You know, we'll take the 90 minute session any day when it comes to skill acquisition, because that's going to be driven by quality over quantity.

If you have an amazing coach who is setting up training in a particular way, it's challenging.

There's a strain related to it.

And I'm not talking physical strain.

I'm talking figuring things out, figuring out the skill.

And I think that can be stressful.

If they hit the right technique, that reward center in the brain, that dopamine shot is going to fly up there.

And there's only so many times that we can get that before that becomes dampened.

And I think there's an energetic piece to it.

There's the fueling of the brain.

There's the carbohydrate fueling exercise that actually the strategy around how you fuel for learning and fuel for physical training is actually pretty similar.

Yeah, it's glucose.

It's sugar at the end of the day, right?

Yeah, again, disclaimer, I'm not a dietician.

But I think it comes down to metabolic efficiency.