190. Optimizing Testosterone Levels, Lower Mileage Training, Breathing and Stress, and US Cross Country!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

We chugged some chocolate whole milk to fuel this amazing episode! The main training topic was on why testosterone levels are relevant for all endurance athletes. While individuals have different genetic set-points for testosterone, studies on men and women show that training and fueling interventions can change baseline levels. Those changes can be positive, leading to more energy and better performance... or negative, possibly contributing to fatigue in training and life. We break down the complicated science, along with what athletes can do to optimize their levels safely and legally.

And this episode was stuffed with the best discussions! Other topics: a study on caffeine and deception, lower-mileage training that features more cross training, Allie Ostrander's inspiring story of qualifying for Team USA in cross country, Cooper Teare's nose strip, breathing exercises and heart rate variability, a breaking-news study on performance impacts from strategic low-carb approaches, the prevalence of drug use in endurance athletes, our obsession with Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell, Jack Scott's triumph at the Spine Race, and our appreciation of David Goggins.

We also have a listener hot take that will change the way you think about hot dogs and hydration. Oscar Meyer is coming for our sports drinks?!

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0:00.0	Whoa!
0:01.0	Whoa!
0:02.0	Welcome to the Summer Call Play Podcast.
0:03.0	We are so happy with you today.
0:05.0	Happy Tuesday!
0:06.0	It's Tuesday!
0:07.0	And I'm feeling so wholesome and hardy over here on this Tuesday.
0:10.0	Wholesome and hardy!
0:11.0	Where did those words come from?
0:12.0	I know, it's not really my vibe is it I feel like those
0:14.8	are kind of like the side dishes of my life and like crushing bitches is like the main dish so it's a little odd. I don't know I think we do bring a wholesome energy even though we talk about some
0:23.9	raunchy things and cuss and stuff like that I've heard that some parents play it for
0:27.9	their like young children. Wait what? Yeah they think it's good for
0:31.0	mentorship. So Megan we are the definition of wholesome.
0:34.4	We're a little house on the prairie over here.
0:36.6	What do you feel about that?
0:37.5	Little house on the prairie with a lot of dick.
0:39.4	Gorthy house on the prairie perhaps.
0:44.4	Yes, exactly. We're dreaming big, we're embodying it, we're manifesting it.
0:48.4	But why are we wholesome? I'm missing why you even brought those words up in the first place.
0:53.2	Because you made chicken soup this morning. I did yeah at 7 a.m. and we have these like waffs of
0:58.2	deliciousness emanating through the house and it's kind of overriding or like 15 pairs of sweaty, dirty running shoes.
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