The Outside Interview: Mindfulness for Peak Performance
Outside Podcast20 Helmi 2019

The Outside Interview: Mindfulness for Peak Performance

Every day there’s more research showing the benefits of mindfulness. It reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, boosts the immune system, and may even slow the aging process. What we’re only starting to figure out, however, is how meditation might improve athletic performance. Outside Editor Christopher Keyes caught up with Pete Kirchmer, program director of mPEAK, an eight-week class developed by neuroscientists at the University of California at San Diego. Their research shows that teaching athletes mindfulness techniques not only improves performance, it can literally change the makeup of your brain.

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Dispatches: Call of the Wild Things

Dispatches: Call of the Wild Things

Wolf howls, bird songs, crickets, frogs—soundscapes contain clues to not only what's going on around us but also who we are. Not just as individuals, but as human beings. Or at least, that's what Bern...

13 Joulu 201625min

The Outside Interview: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell

The Outside Interview: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell

“If you're not at the table, you're on the menu,” says Sally Jewell. Hopeful, thoughtful, slightly ticked-off, and surprisingly emotional, the outgoing Secretary of the Interior talks with Outside edi...

29 Marras 201643min

Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 3

Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 3

Dan  Futrell and Isaac Stonerand are back from searching through the wreckage of Eastern Airlines Flight 980 on a remote mountain in Bolivia, and their findings have prompted a whole new set of questi...

15 Marras 201641min

Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 2

Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 2

Since colliding with a Bolivian mountain in 1985, Eastern Airlines Flight 980 has been frozen inside a glacier perched on the edge of a 3,000-foot drop. With wreckage now melting out of the ice at the...

1 Marras 201639min

Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 1

Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 1

Since colliding into a Bolivian mountain in 1985, Eastern Airlines Flight 980 has been frozen inside a glacier perched on the edge of a 3,000-foot drop. With wreckage now melting out of ice at the bas...

18 Loka 201634min

Dispatches: National Parks Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Reverence

Dispatches: National Parks Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Reverence

John Muir rhapsodizing about Yosemite is one thing, but Outside contributing editor Ian Frazier has had it with people calling their favorite outdoor spots “cathedrals,” “shrines,” and “sacred spaces....

5 Loka 201623min

Dispatches: The Sound of Science

Dispatches: The Sound of Science

Scientists are compiling huge amounts of data on the impact of global warming, but the story of that data often gets lost. Enter NikSawe, a researcher at Stanford who is transforming big data into mus...

20 Syys 201623min

The Outside Interview: The Hard Lessons of Climbing Superstar Conrad Anker

The Outside Interview: The Hard Lessons of Climbing Superstar Conrad Anker

For two decades, Conrad Anker has been at the forefront of climbing, evolving into America’s best all-around alpinist. With skills on rock, ice, and big peaks, he's now something of an elder statesmen...

7 Syys 201642min

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