ULTRA TRAIL - Guillaume Millet

Summary When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet a

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"The key to having an interesting life is to always say 'yes' to anything crazy."

- Freeman Dyson

GUILLAUME MILLET SCIENTIST – AUTHOR – SPEAKER

Il y a 10 ans, Guillaume Millet publiait son best-seller Ultra-Trail – Plaisir, performance et santé, qui , depuis 3 ans, a été victime de son succès et n’est plus disponible. L’occasion rêvée pour en proposer une 2ème édition, largement mise à jour, augmentée des nouvelles connaissances acquises ces dix dernières années autour de la préparation à l’ultra-trail. Son auteur revient ici sur ce nouvel ouvrage indispensable à l’ultra trailer (mais pas que !)

ULTRA TRAIL Guillaume Millet

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When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.

Antifragility is the idea of putting pressure on a system, or human, the system or human actually grows bigger and stronger.

Antifragile systems are all around us. One example of this is our muscular system. We go to the gym to lift weights. By doing so we are putting pressure on our system to help it grow stronger. The human body is an antifragile system.

From a psychological perspective, antifragility comes in the form of PTG, or post-traumatic growth. After we experience a stressful event, we learn and grow to become more resilient.