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Best of Sports Nutrition: Crazy Coffee Concoctions, Fat Burning and More


We dug through our archives to find one of the top Sports Nutrition episodes we’ve recorded in a while. Tune in to see what all the hype is about! We’ll be back to new shows next week. Thanks for listening. Click here to download...
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ATC: Ramping Up After Runner’s Knee, Art of Peaking, Racing a 70.3 in Prep for 140.6, Last-Minute 10k Training Plan, and More

The best approach to building up run miles after suffering from runner’s knee, foot positioning on bike cleats and how much/how little it really matters, finding the HR zone that works for you- Coggan/Friel/MAF, trying to peak twice 7 weeks apart, how a recreational trail runner should tackle a mountain marathon, longest s/b/r and whn...
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Sports Nutrition: Training in Fire Season, Caffeine and MAF, Ergogenic Effects of Caffeine and More

When is it safe or too hazardous to train outside if a fire breaks out nearby, abstaining from coffee/caffeine for a period before race day, can caffeine affect your MAF HR zones, caffeine and glucose production in the liver, are root veggies too high in GI, and more. Click here to download...
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Are You An Endurance Athlete With Overtraining or Adrenal Fatigue?

Recently, a very “beat up” triathlete showed me the results of his saliva testing for hormones. They were really low. Even cortisol was low. Cortisol is the stress-release hormone we churn out when exercising and living, and when that drops low, it’s a real warning sign that you’re so beat up that your adrenal glands...
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ATU: It’s Not (Just) About The Pace, Using VAM Metric for Ultra Training, Attack Hills Without Blowing Up, And More

Learning how to train to race a marathon rather than just complete one, long-time runner who wants to enter his first ever race (50k) and where to start, training to achieve a 10k PR, how to deal with a painfully slow MAF pace,  is the VAM metric is a useful tool for ultra training, fixes for blisters...
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Pro Triathlete Matt Russell On Wildflower, Racing Often and Extreme Endurance

Pro triathlete Matt Russell joins the show to talk about racing Wildflower (where he was 8th), a pro triathlon career that only began a few years ago but already includes two Kona showings and an Ironman win, how he thrives on racing often and can do up to 30 events a year, his experience using...
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Sports Nutrition: Importance of Blood Testing and Does it Affect Athletic Performance, Concocting a Supplmemnt ‘Cocktail’, The Best Sweeteners and More

Can blood tests and/or donating blood hurt athletic performance and for how long (and what’s the difference in measurements), insight on Ben’s recent blood test results, what to do to fix low hematocrit and low hemoglobin, how long of a workout before calories are needed, what’s an ideal list of supplements, are MAP and Extreme Endurance...
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ATC: Should Triathletes Get Out of the Saddle, Are Your Cool Downs Too Easy, Heat and Hydration, and More

Is it possible to go too easy on a cool down, what are the advantages of riding in or out-of-the-saddle and is it good or bad for triathletes to get out of the saddle, more on the minimalist training approach vs bigger volume with specific weekly breakdowns and the variables in choosing you best plan, what...
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Sports Nutrition: Vitamin K2 and Diet Dos and Don’ts to Prevent Stress Fractures, Managing Caloric Intake for Ideal Weight and Performance, and More

How can your diet affect your chances of getting a stress fracture — what to eat and what to avoid, the importance of Vitamin K2 for healthy bones, how to use nutrition periodization based on activity level, how to find your caloric requirements, eating “ideal” number os calories but feeling too full from all the food,...
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ATU: Choose the Best Weights For Better Performance, Cardiac Drift in Tempos, The Nutrition Debate, Compex, And More

How to manage/heal plantar fasciitis and can you run through it, how to choose the best weights for gains in strength and power (plus ideal rep counts, etc), when experiencing cardiac drift on a tempo run is it better to keep the same pace and let HR drift up OR slow down to allow HR to stay...
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Triathlete Sonja Wieck: On Her Rise To Elite Amateur Racing and Finding Motivation in Tough Times

Elite amateur triathlete Sonja Wieck joins the show to talk about her life in triathlon: how she got into the sport, qualifying for and racing Kona three times so far, coaching and more. We also discuss in detail how to stay motivated and rekindle that fire to train and race when you feel deflated in sport. Tune...
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