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		<title>The idea is to put yourself into a state that’s both physically and mentally exhausting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If mental fatigue limits physical performance, then athletes can be trained to become resilient to it: “The idea is to put yourself into a state that’s both physically and mentally exhausting, by combining cognitive and physical training,” Ring said. In practice, this means 15 to 20 minutes of cognitive exercises before or after a long [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Older adults are more likely to activate opposing ankle muscles at the same time</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As people age, they adopt a more cautious walking strategy, prioritizing staying upright over moving efficiently: The study, conducted by researchers at Flinders University and the University of Canberra, found that aging leads to a more “safety-first” walking pattern. While this approach improves stability, it also reduces speed and energy efficiency, helping explain why older [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Belief effects do have a ceiling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 11:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Sabastian Sawe breaking the two-hour marathon, Steve Magness notes, we’ve got a new self-help story that will dominate public speaking for decades to come, like Bannister’s breaking the four-minute mile: After Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile barrier, John Landy got under the mark just 46 days later. The next year 3 more men [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>He is defeated by his own sweat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Soldier’s Load and the Mobilty of a Nation, then-Colonel S.L.A. Marshall discusses cold and hot weather: Through such tests as Task Force Frigid, we have begun to survey the effects of excessively low temperatures upon the tactical efficiency of the average individual. But it has been known for fifty years that the soldier&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Marching is his daily bread</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Great War, the British Army’s Hygiene Advisory Committee researched how soldiers had been loaded through the centuries and published its findings in a pamphlet called The Load Carried by the Soldier: In war, marching is unquestionably the military operation of first importance, involving as it does the transference of troops to the point [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Worn out men cannot fight or think</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his preface to The Soldier’s Load and the Mobilty of a Nation, Brig. Gen. USAR-Ret. S.L.A. Marshall argues that fear is exhausting — and exhaustion can lead to fear: In July, 1918, I marched with my Regiment to the front on a balmy, starlit night and was astonished to see the strong men around [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In Football We Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched In Football We Trust back when it was on PBS. It follows a number of teenage Pacific Islanders — Samoans and Tongans — in Utah, of all places, where they play football. According to the opening, Polynesians are 28 times as likely to play in the NFL as other ethnicities: The boys are [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Infrared Sauna vs. Traditional Sauna vs. Hot Tub</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/10/infrared-sauna-vs-traditional-sauna-vs-hot-tub/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Infrared saunas have become incredibly popular, even though they aren’t really saunas: To the untrained eye, they basically look the same as what you’d expect a sauna to look like—wood paneling, benches, some guy who just had to bring his phone inside—and both actually share a bunch of the same health benefits. […] Infrared saunas [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dietary fiber is extremely heterogeneous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dietary fiber is extremely heterogeneous, so a recent study analyzed the impact of different plant-based fibers (pectin, ?-glucan, wheat dextrin, resistant starch, and cellulose as a control) on the gut microbiota in high-fat diet (HFD)-fed mice: Only ?-glucan supplementation during HFD-feeding decreased adiposity and body weight gain and improved glucose tolerance compared with HFD-cellulose, whereas [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Route march speed was reduced from 7.5 to 5 km/h</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1991-1992, a pelvic stress fracture incidence of 11.2% was recorded in a cohort of 143 female Australian Army recruits: An incidence of 0.1% was recorded in a cohort of male recruits trained in the 1992-1993 year using a nearly identical program. A number of preventive strategies were instituted in an attempt to reduce the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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