The Impact of Harder Efforts | ETP#217

About this episode

The episode discusses the changing perceptions of effort in fitness and nutrition, highlighting a decline in effort despite an increase in quality information.

ETP 217 digs into effort, and the notion that many overestimate their effort relative to their goal. We've observed a flip over the last decade. Rewind 10-12 years to the CrossFit era and the information was mostly bad, but the effort was 10 out of 10 across the board. Now we have the opposite problem. Quality information is abundant, but the effort has quietly slipped. And that will hold you back. The other half of this is likely misapplication of the supported evidence. Research that holds ...

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Hosts: Aaron Straker, Bryan Boorstein

Topics covered

• effort
• fitness
• nutrition
• CrossFit
• goal setting
• research application

Keywords

• effort
• fitness
• nutrition
• CrossFit
• goal
• research
• application

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Organizations: CrossFit

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