The Science of Marathon Running

48 thoughts on “The Science of Marathon Running”

1. Kudos to your marathon effort. I completed my first marathon in Sydney 2011 at the same time; 3.39.38. Thanks for the heads up. wj

2. 1400 ÷8

3. Planning to run my first half and full marathons next year. Good luck to me!

4. 4:55 Just to make it clear, when you run fast your cells use both of these processes to produce ATP, while 2 ATP is small compared to 38, its still something, so your cells do both of these, this happens because the krebs cycle needs oxygen, and there's only so much oxygen your blood can provide in a given time, so your cells use an extra process (glyclolysis), but this leaves "Left overs", which will be stored in the muscles, and thats what causes the pain in the next few days while your body removes all that waste

5. Decent time man, top vid

6. If you were adapted to lipometabolism, you woulden't need to carb load or eat on the way to avoid hitting the wall.

7. As a marathoner, this is super cool to watch 🙂

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11. Hitting a wall isn’t extreme fatigue. It is as you then said; running out of glucose. Paula Newby Fraser did not hit the wall. PNF won the Ironman world Championships 8 times and in 1995 almost died from hyponatremia.

12. I hear many marathon runners are going with a ketogenic diet because the wall doesn't exist when glucose wasn't the main fuel source to deplete.

13. Tosh got skinny

14. Superb explanation

15. Congrats on the run!
    How was your training?

16. damn i did 35km on 6 hours by walking and i though i did something smh

17. Hey man, love the channel. But the Cheetah over heating research was done in an indoor environment with cheetah strapped to a stationary machine. Also the claim of humans over running horses are only in the condition of hot plains of Africa. In most of our modern colder environment, horeses and dogs easily outrun humans in long distance – and that’s why we have been using them. Please research into some of these myth and update this video!!!

18. Make a video on ironman championship if u can .

19. Thin waist who?

20. evolution is not true or there would be something in between humans and monkeys… much respect.

21. Humans are the best runners. Almost all species that run are just to get away from the hunter ans the hunter just needs a litter bit more endurance than that therefore they're sprinters. We cna go the distance because of what our ancestors needed to do to live; move around, hunt, survive, etc.

22. You talked about evolution, then said we are "made" for it. Well if we are made for it, who made us?

23. Talking about running long distances, I usually space out whenever I run and everything goes by so fast! Now if I had an injury it would ruin the trans and I wouldn’t be able to do that.

24. Love running, but this evolution tie-in is garbage. Remember, it is ONLY a theory; it's not fact.

25. Do some more research. Being Fat Adapted and in Ketosis is the perfect way to run endurance races, NOT carb loading. Carb loaded and using glycogen as a fuel source for endurance runs is not the right thing to do. Like you mentioned, the body can only store up to 2500kcal of energy for glycogen burning fuel but when you are fat adapted, even the most lean athletes (8% body fat) have 40,000kcal of stored energy. No carb loading and better fuel source! Carbs are the worse way to run endurance races.

26. Wtf so u say humans were champanzyz???

27. Wait why did the Greek runner die

28. What is your rank in marathon

29. Always tape your nips when marathoning or ultra marathoning (I spotted the dreaded bloody nip at the end). 😀

30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25xt3s9BYk&feature=youtu.be

31. Pheidippides didnt have a horse?

32. "tall thin bodies"
    Guess I'm not a human then.

33. Pensacola Marathon in November….I’ve got A Lot of training to do

34. I have ran 10k it nade me like dead n thinking of 42 make me mad now?

35. Why did you only show videos of women hitting "the wall"? I sure hope this was unintentional.

36. I ran a half marathon yesterday. I'll keep training.

37. 3.39 for first marathon!!

38. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYvSKoDLED39YAuT_eLdOVQ

39. Pretty respectable time! More effort put into this video than 99.9% of YouTube content. Thumbs up.

40. So this Greek “professional” messenger ran 26.2 miles and died, but today thousands of average joes do it every year and live to tell the tale? Wrong profession, IMO 🙂

41. Humans are evolved long distance runners….. So start running.

42. Km anyone?

43. You came from a monkey , I came from God.

44. I thought the Greek guy ran 26 miles and then in first London Olympics they moved the Marathon race finish line a further 0.2 mile to where the Royals were sitting?

45. It started out being 25 miles, then (like Jon Scovell below said) some royalty wanted to add the extra distance around his castle. And it became 26 miles 385 yards. 385 yards is 7/32 of a mile. That's 42.2 kilometers. A mile is 1609.3 meters.

    30 years ago, most marathons were challenges for those wanting to athletically train for a test. Nowadays, in nearly all cases, each of those races is merely a business to get funds, as they charge 2.5-to-4 times more now than they used to.

    But tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. Come find me in Idaho and we'll do some trails.

46. 1400/8= 175 pounds how tall is this guy?

47. What a run for a first time marathon. Science definitely helped you I guess!!

48. You suck

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