Keep Up or Catch Up // Spartan STAND 017

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

It takes more energy to catch up than it does to simply keep up. This extra expenditure of energy ends up creating a greater deficit which in turn feeds the loop to fall behind yet again.

This is simple physical conservation of energy theory.

What happens with individuals on a psychological level is an entirely different story. The tendency is to attempt finding shortcuts rationalized as improved techniques, greater efficiency, or new moves etc…

Where in our lives are we creating shortcuts to catch up when we should have been playing keep up?

LESSONS:
Gradual loss of capacity creates dangerous thought patterns to look for shortcuts
Spend the time and energy now keeping up before you have to spend more catching up later

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CREDITS:

Producer: Marion Abrams, Madmotion,llc.
Host: Brian “tosh” Chontosh
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey Spartan's Brian Shantosh here on Spartan stand and today I want to talk to you about keeping up and catching up.
0:10.9	There's a little saying that I've heard throughout the years it's called it's easier to keep up than it is to catch up and I don't know where it came from
0:19.3	probably in the military you know I think back to formation runs forced marches and
0:26.6	inevitably when you have a group of men hiking it's a forest march over miles and terrain, they get tired. And when they get tired,
0:37.0	they start to disperse a little bit, or the interval between the guy in front of them and themselves
0:42.3	gets bigger and bigger and
0:43.1	bigger and what that does is obviously the unit integrity goes down and then the
0:47.6	gun he starts yelling hey catch up catch up reach out like get up there get up there
0:51.4	close the gap.
0:53.0	And because you know we want to have a cohesive unit moving together.
0:56.7	And so that individual will start to run or jog or have to sprint to catch up and everybody behind him is affected as well so then
1:06.0	they all have to run or sprint or jog to catch back up and you can see how that
1:11.4	spike in exertion could create even more fatigue to somebody
1:16.2	that's already fatigued who can't keep up in the first place and affect everybody else.
1:22.1	Pre-exusting them.
1:22.8	You see how efficiency, unit efficiency,
1:24.7	can decline really, really quick
1:26.1	when we're constantly playing catch up.
1:29.8	Or another way it would manifest is
1:31.8	somebody would just start to fall back a little bit and they might be 10 feet away from the person in front of them when we're looking to be 1.5, 2 feet away from each other nice and tight.
1:41.0	And they'll be going the same speed only they're nice and tight and they'll be going the same speed only they're 10 15
1:46.0	feet yards whatever they're putting up the same amount of energy they would be if
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