#17 - Mike Trevino: life-lessons from ultra-endurance, mindset, hard work, and removing limitations

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

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🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, ultra-endurance athlete and entrepreneur, Mike Trevino, discusses the lessons he’s learned from his remarkable athletic feats, and the training required to reach them. Not only is Mike’s advice practical for those looking to take their endurance training to the next level, but his lessons and insight are extraordinarily applicable to living everyday life.

We discuss:

Mike’s background, his crazy birthday tradition, and his transition from power to endurance [6:30];
Mike’s breakthrough year: setting a course record, and completing the Badwater 135 [16:00];
Race Across America (RAAM), perseverance, and extreme sleep deprivation [25:30];
Mindset, nutrition, fasting, and other advice from Mike for those looking to take the next step in their training [49:00];
What getting a parasite taught Mike about fasting [59:45];
The risks involved with cycling [1:03:00];
Mike setting the trans-Iowa (RAGBRAI) record [1:10:15];
PEDs, stimulants, and their effect on performance [1:15:00];
What motivates Mike (and others) to do this extreme stuff? What led him to eventually pull back? [1:22:00];
Life-lessons learned from training, and how to impart them to his kids, and others [1:35:30];
The greatest beer in the world remains a mystery [1:46:15]; and
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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Peter Atia Drive. I'm your host, Peter Atia.
0:10.0	The drive is a result of my hunger for optimizing performance, health, longevity, critical thinking,
0:15.7	along with a few other obsessions along the way. I've spent the last several years working
0:19.6	with some of the most successful top performing individuals in the world, and this podcast
0:23.8	is my attempt to synthesize what I've learned along the way to help you live a higher quality
0:28.3	and more fulfilling life. If you enjoy this podcast, you can find more information on today's
0:32.5	episode and other topics at peteratiamd.com.
0:41.7	Welcome to this episode of the Peter Atia Drive. This was a really fun one for me to do,
0:46.7	and it was done relatively without much preparation or prompting. So in this episode, I interview
0:52.0	one of my really, really close friends, Mike Trevino. Mike and I have been friends from
0:56.8	the moment we met, which was about five years ago, and they're just the number of things
1:00.7	about Mike that are really interesting, and you'll learn a lot of them in this episode.
1:05.2	Starting with the fact that Mike is arguably the most accomplished amateur endurance athlete,
1:10.4	certainly that I've ever known, but you'd have a hard time making a case for any other amateur
1:14.3	endurance athlete period. His accomplishments are beyond legendary, and we go through many
1:21.9	of them here, though not all of them. That's why I wanted to have this discussion with
1:25.9	him. Mike and I see each other every week. We somehow figure out a way to time our travel,
1:30.7	such that there's one day a week, at least three weeks out of the month when we're not traveling,
1:37.0	and we can go out and do a ride. It's a relatively short ride. We ride about 40 kilometers, but it's
1:41.8	just kind of this amazing time when we get to catch up on life and all of the things that
1:46.7	we think about together. Mike shares a lot of that stuff today. He gets into, again, I think you
1:52.4	would listen to this and easily come away overwhelmed and thinking, wow, there's nothing about that guy's
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