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 Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:07 am Post subject: Be more than you can be |
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Wired Magazine
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By 2001, military strategists had determined that the best way to deal with emerging transnational threats was with small groups of fast-moving soldiers, not hulking pieces of military hardware. But small groups rarely travel with medics � they have to be hardy enough to survive on their own. So what goes on in Grahn�s dank little lab at Stanford is part of a much larger push to radically improve the performance, mental capacity, and resilience of American troops � to let them run harder and longer, operate without sleep, overcome deadly injury, and tap the potential of their unconscious minds.
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Grahn and his research partner, biologist Craig Heller, started working on the Glove at Stanford in the late 1990s as part of their research on improving physical performance. Even they were astounded at how well it seemed to work. Vinh Cao, their squat, barrel-chested lab technician, used to do almost 100 pull-ups every time he worked out. Then one day he cooled himself off between sets with an early prototype. The next round of pull-ups � his 11th � was as strong as his first. Within six weeks, Cao was doing 180 pull-ups a session. Six weeks after that, he went from 180 to more than 600. |
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