The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Seven Habits of highly successful primful Primal Endurance Athletes.

Things have been busy for the primal endurance movement since I introduced the book back in December.

People have been eager to learn more about this novel form of training,

so we've been answering a lot of questions.

Much like how the primal blueprint received a lot of attention because it bucked against conventional wisdom,

such has been the case for primal endurance.

Lots of head scratching, balking, but then, after learning the science and seeing the results,

a healthy curiosity or full-blown conversion.

So what's primal endurance training all about? What are the fundamentals? Who's

practicing it? And where can you learn more about it? To get the message out as wide as possible,

in the wake of the book we created a dedicated primal endurance podcast to gather an assortment

of captivating guests to talk all things enduranceurance-related. If you've tuned in,

you've probably heard Brad's series of shows detailing each of the book's chapters. The book

has been very well received, and we've already commissioned a second printing after selling out the

first print run. So why the buzz? I think there are a couple of things at play. First, the Endurance

community as a whole is waking up to the exciting and scientifically validated concept that

a high-fat diet might offer performance and health advantages over the traditional high-carbohyd

diet. Part of this shift results largely from work done by the heroic Dr. Timothy

Noakes Ph.D. in South Africa, one of the world's leading endurance exercise physiologists,

an author of the epic lore of running, 944 pages of all you need to know about the physiology

of endurance running. A lifelong runner and leading proponent of the carbohydrate-glycogen-burning paradigm, as it relates

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