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How To Compete At The World’s Highest Obstacle Course Race with Becky Neal

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Hello and welcome to The Progress Theory, where we discuss scientific principles for optimising human performance. In this episode, we're joined by sports physiologist, Dr Becky Neal. 

Have you ever done an obstacle course race such as Spartan or a Tough Mudder? Now think about doing one of those, but at Everest Base Camp. That's exactly what Dr Becky Neal has done. And not only that, she did it as part of a massive research study. So in this episode, we discussed her experiences in the Himalaya and also how her research is helping us understand how people function in high altitude. 

In this episode, we discuss:

  • 0:46 - Introduction
  • 2:07 - The world’s highest OCR
  • 12:28 - The freezing temperatures
  • 15:47 - Racing and avoiding mountain sickness
  • 26:08 - The results from the world’s highest race study
  • 30:44 - What could warn us of potential mountain sickness
  • 40:02 - future high altitude challenges for research
  • 46:41 - Would you climb Mt Everest?

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