214: What do these top ranked racers eat? Myriam and Jacky Boisett SPARTAN UP
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Can eating only raw fruits and vegetables improve your performance, health and recovery in racing? This week Myriam and Jacky explain how eating raw vegan has enhanced every aspect of their life - from a decade adventure racing to now conquering the obstacle courses at Spartan. Where can you find protein and what is your body really craving? … maybe they are onto something drinking seawater each day!
Lessons:
• Eating raw may help reduce the chance of injury and inflammation
• A healthier diet can potentially alleviate allergies and asthma
• You have to push your body hard to know it well
• To change from a normal diet to a vegan diet should be done in steps
• Put more vegetable juice into your diet by drinking it before meals
• Your body is craving minerals and vitamins
• Watermelons are great for the end of hikes
• Juicing the night before a race may help you feel lighter and ready to go
• Protein can be found in fruits, vegetables and juices
• Palm syrup and a little seawater may be great for you?!
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Joe intro to the Boisetts
0:52 Athletic Greens
1:22 Interview begins
3:00 eating raw vegan
4:00 It's not about just performance but about health and recovery
5:00 healing asthma and allergies with a raw diet
6:00 how do you get protein? Myth vs. Fact
6:45 Spartan Race vs. expedition racing
7:40 Sleeping on a raw diet
8:38 Athletic Greens Break in an alpine lupine field
12:27 Interview continues
13:00 Yale study on protein consumption in athletes
14:10 we are not omnivores
15:00 how society normalizes a bad diet
16:00 winning adventure races: raw
17:00 pushing your body hard to know it well
17:30 race prep diet
19:00 advice to starting a raw vegan diet
21:00 bring a watermelon to the top of mountains :)
22:00 health benefits of seawater
23:00 Joe De Sena's commentary on the interview and what's coming up next!
24:00 Athletic Greens special offer for Spartan's
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
© 2018 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spartan up. There are no shortcuts, no magic pills, but if you stick with us and you keep listening, I guarantee you will learn how to overcome obstacles in life and you will crush life. |
| 0:10.0 | When I was recently in Europe in Morzine, France, I met Jackie and Miriam Besset. |
| 0:16.0 | They are very unique, they have a unique diet, and they are crushing not only life, but Spartan races. |
| 0:21.0 | The reason this interview is really timely right now is we're about to head into the world champs in Tahoe, Lake Tahoe, and at the world champs they're both going to be competing and they're going to be using this technique they have to maybe crush the |
| 0:33.3 | competition so listen Sepra Johnny Marion and Colonel Nye are not around so it's |
| 0:39.5 | just me you got me let's listen to these this couple, find out what they do, what secrets |
| 0:45.1 | we could learn, and who knows, maybe we'll crush life. |
| 0:50.5 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Athletic Green. |
| 0:53.6 | Ensure your body gets the nutrition it needs. |
| 0:56.2 | Athletic Greens has an offer just for our listeners. |
| 0:59.0 | Go to Athletic Greens.com slash Spartan |
| 1:01.8 | to get a free box of 20 travel packets with your order a |
| 1:05.0 | $100 value |
| 1:10.8 | We are here with Mariam Mariam, Mariam? Yes, Mariam and Jackie for Spartan |
| 1:15.3 | up podcast in Morzine, France and crazy story I was just sleeping with them. |
| 1:24.0 | For a few minutes. For a few minutes. |
| 1:25.0 | I, it's a long story, but I was walking by and I needed a place to sleep and you guys were on the couch. |
| 1:31.0 | You were making a phone call at some point what were you working on? |
| 1:33.7 | What were you doing? |
| 1:34.7 | Well just the life when you travel we lost our luggage so we were calling the company to try to find our bag. |
| 1:46.0 | But not. |
| 1:47.0 | And I said, I hope you don't mind and you moved over a little bit and I slept on the couch. |
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