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In preparation, I perused scientific journals for work on specialization and career-swerving outside of the sports world. I was struck by what I found. One study showed that early career specializers jumped out to an earnings lead after college, but that later specializers made up for the head start by finding work that better fit their skills and personalities.
Performing at any sport is a matter of effectively storing and releasing energy.
Core Performance
Mark Verstegen, Pete Williams
In between his own exhausting twice-daily training regimes, Robin recorded the athletes’ pain thresholds before and after their regular morning workout on the rowing machines when training on their own, and then repeated this a week later when they worked out as a crew with the rowing machines linked up as a virtual boat. And then he repeated all this again a week later. In both series, the physical effort produced the expected increase in pain threshold when rowing alone on the machine, indicating endorphin activation due to the stress being placed on their muscles. But rowing in synchrony as a virtual boat doubled this – despite the fact that the rowers were not putting in more effort (as we could tell from the gauges on the rowing machines). Somehow, acting in synchrony ramps up the endorphin effect to much higher levels, though we still have no idea why.
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