Alex Hutchinson
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Alex Hutchinson is a science journalist based in Toronto who writes about fitness, endurance sports and the outdoors.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Based in: Toronto (opens wiqqi.app)
- Writes: Sweat Science column for Outside (from 2017; before that a similar column for Runner's World); columns for the Globe and Mail and Canadian Running (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (New York Times bestseller); The Explorer's Gene (March 2025) (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Newsletter: Sweat Science (opens sweatscience.substack.com)
“Why the Car Ride Home Matters”
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Newsletter: Sweat Science (opens sweatscience.substack.com)
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6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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After a child's sport, a parent's best first words may be 'I love watching you play', and then moving on. (opens korrents.com)
“So this conference session was a good reminder for me: “I love watching you play.” Then move on.”
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Durability may owe a lot to nutrition, with some evidence also for strength training. (opens korrents.com)
“How do you develop durability? That remains a topic of great debate. There is some evidence for thing like strength training, but a big factor may well be nutrition. The great carbohydrate revolution of the past few…”
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On hills, ideal pacing would hold effort roughly constant, but a bias toward constant speed gets in the way. (opens korrents.com)
“But in a perfect world, that’s not how you would pace yourself. You would slow down enough on the uphills to keep your VO2 roughly constant, and speed up enough on the downhills to do the same. Instead, our “constant…”
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After a child's sport, a parent's best first words may be 'I love watching you play', and then moving on. (opens korrents.com)
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13 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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In Trees (opens rcmnd.app)
“The titles that did: In Trees, by Robert Moor”
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The Norwegian Method Applied (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Norwegian Method Applied, by Marius Bakken”
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The Secret to Superhuman Strength (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Secret to Superhuman Strength, by Alison Bechdel”
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In Trees (opens rcmnd.app)