035- What it takes (mentally and physically) to run 100 miles

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Expert, Ben, 40, Pakulski, Alternative Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Intelligence, Biohacking, Mi, Intelligent, Mi40, Nutrition, Diet, Hormones, Muscle, Exercise

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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On today’s episode, we welcome Zach Bitter. Zach is an endurance athlete and coach and he is nothing short of a high achiever. He consistently runs 100-mile ultra-marathons and is now in the midst of preparing for an even greater race.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to the muscle intelligence Podcast. We frame this podcast around living
0:21.9	your greatest life in a body that you love. And we're here to empower you with the knowledge
0:28.0	and skill set to really develop this body that you can live out the next 100 years and the next
0:33.9	150 years and truly have a passionate relationship with your body and with your
0:38.5	life. And today's guest is nothing short of a high achiever. Zach Bitter consistently runs
0:46.5	100 mile ultramarathons. That blows my mind to think about. Like most people don't even want to get
0:53.9	in the car and drive for 100 marathons.
0:55.9	He had Zach straps on his ultra shoes and heads out the door and go, hey, I'm going to run 100 miles today.
1:02.8	In fact, he's not preparing to run something exponentially greater than 100 miles.
1:08.3	He says it's about 180 miles.
1:10.5	We'll take him about 20 hours straight. How does a
1:14.6	human being get his head around that is my greatest question for Zach today? The cognitive
1:20.0	battles that must go on around mile, you know, pick it 70, 80, 90, every one of those miles to
1:26.6	look at it and go, yes, I still have a
1:28.0	tremendous amount more to go.
1:30.5	Certainly my greatest area of fascination, what separates the people who don't from the people
1:35.8	who do?
1:37.7	And I won't say can't because it's not can't.
1:40.3	You absolutely can, but you don't.
1:43.0	Why don't we do the things that we want to do? We need to do. We should do. Yet we don't. You absolutely can, but you don't. Why don't we do the things that we want to do?
1:45.2	We need to do. We should do. Yet we don't. And that's a very interesting conversation.
1:48.5	We have exactly today. We dive into understanding the mechanics of how he eats. We dive into
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