#46 - Matt Fitzgerald Talks Nutrition and Fitness for Endurance Athletes
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
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Matt Fitzgerald has written nearly 30 books about fitness and nutrition for endurance athletes. He's currently in the middle of running 8 marathons in 8 weeks to fuel his new book "Life is a Marathon." He's the author of "The Endurance Diet," "Iron War," "80/20 Running," "Racing Weight" and one of our favorites, "50/50" about Dean Karnazes' amazing feat of 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days. He talks about all of that and so much more, including:
- How does Matt feel about paleo, low-carb, vegan diets, bullet proof coffee?
- What diet you SHOULD follow for the best success
- Why he's in the middle of 8 marathons in 8 weeks
- Boston Marathon
- What drives him as a nutrition and endurance writer
- The way to successful Recovery
- What it's like working with Dean Karnazes and the Iron Cowboy
- Is there pressure being a "nutritional expert?"
- What part does the mind play on new diets?
- The safest and most effective way for endurance athletes to eat
- How important are foam rollers and ice baths?
- Exploring his upcoming book "Life is a Marathon" and why it's so important to him.
- Why he used to think of himself as a coward
- How Bi-Polar disorder has touched his life in a major way
- Running and Depression
- Running to connect with others if you're an introvert
- The Charles Bukowski connection
- How he got his start as a comedic poet
Learn more about Matt by following "Life is a Marathon" on Facebook
Matt on Twitter: @mattfitwriter
His Website is www.mattfitzgerald.org
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, my man? |
| 0:09.9 | Michael, you are one minute early today. |
| 0:12.2 | I know. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm really on top of the game lately. |
| 0:16.6 | That's two times in a row I've been right on time early. |
| 0:19.9 | Yeah, what is your record? |
| 0:23.5 | Two. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, that's what I thought. |
| 0:25.6 | It's ongoing right now, yeah. |
| 0:27.3 | So you're pretty pumped about this guest today, huh? |
| 0:29.7 | I guess you're already pumped. |
| 0:31.1 | Why don't you tell that quick story about how you met him and what he's up to? |
| 0:35.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:35.9 | So, although I am not a social media, |
| 0:41.4 | not on very many social media platforms, |
| 0:44.4 | I am on Twitter. |
| 0:46.0 | And gosh, I don't know, |
| 0:47.9 | maybe last, I guess, two Sundays ago, I think. |
| 0:53.4 | Saw a little Matt Fitzgerald call out for a run, and it had just happened to be Overland Park, Kansas, which, shockingly enough, is where I live and reached out to him. |
| 1:02.6 | And I was fortunate enough, we both met up for a run the following day. |
| 1:09.4 | I probably should categorize it as a shuffle. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm not sure he would categorize like that, |
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