These substances are important for endurance performance.
Then there's endurance: performance changes over time.
Endurance performance can take on a certain mythology.
It is, in every way, an extraordinary journey of endurance, performance and constant reinvention.
"One of the major determinants of endurance performance is oxygen consumption," Dr. Tanaka said.
This summer at the Serpentine, she will present a new "endurance" performance.
We have a VO2 max figure, a value that some people consider to be a determinant of endurance performance.
A subsequent Brazilian study, stimulating areas of the brain associated with effort and self-monitoring, boosted endurance performance in cycling.
And there's a theory that, when people are pregnant, they get a big expansion in their blood volume... which could translate to improved endurance performance over time".
Moderate amounts of caffeine are increasingly being used to enhance endurance performance, particularly in the mid to latter stages of a race.
It's an endurance performance but as Martin explains, "There's a lot of work [in this program] that's just about completely getting immersed inside a world".
