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The Primal Kitchen Podcast

5 Ways to Get the Most Bang for Your Workout Buck

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4717 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What, exactly, are the minimum effective doses for exercise? How little do I have to train to stay and/or get fit? And what kind of effects can we expect to get from said minimal doses? The answers to those questions will depend on who’s asking, but we have a few specific examples of people maintaining, improving, or radically transforming their fitness levels with minimum effective doses of exercise. Let’s take a look. 

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Brock Armstrong)

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0:00.0

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0:40.8

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0:41.9

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0:44.3

The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

0:58.3

Five ways to get the most Bang for your Workout Buck.

1:05.1

Late last year, I introduced the idea of the minimum effective dose, the lowest dose to produce a desired outcome. Whether it's calorie intake, exercise, sunlight, carbohydrates, or work habits, we often think

1:12.6

we need much more than we actually do to get the results we want.

1:16.2

Why crank out those extra reps, put in those extra hours, or choke down another chicken

1:21.2

breast if they won't make you any more prepared to handle what life dishes out?

1:26.3

Failing to heed the minimum effective dose costs you money,

1:30.3

time, and mental real estate. Figuring out the minimum effective dose for those various inputs

1:36.3

shaping our days can make us more efficient and open up the rest of our life to do things we

1:42.1

actually want to do. You might ask, what exactly are the minimum effective doses for exercise?

1:49.0

How little do I have to train to stay and or get fit?

1:54.0

And what kind of effects can we expect to get from said minimum doses?

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