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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Eric, welcome back to the show.

Thanks for having me. How are you today? Well, I'm recovering from grinding myself down into a pulp

with exercise, and I'm hoping you can help me and our audience

learn how to not do that because it took me a good six weeks of feeling kind of crappy and

like something was wrong in my body, but I couldn't figure out what to realize it was exercise.

And I know you're hammering away pretty aggressively. And I know you had said

offline that over-training prevention is something that you're really passionate about. So I am

so excited to pick your brain and extract whatever pearls are in there. Yeah. So what type of

training have you been doing lately? Well, that's what I want to share with you. And let me see if I can

cue this up. So essentially, I was doing three want to share with you. And let me see if I can cue this up.

So essentially, I was doing three days per week of weights and three days per week of cardio.

And with the weights, I may have pushed that too hard.

And all these things are what I want to ask you.

I was essentially doing about 40 minutes of kind of a CrossFit style workout.

My average heart rate was 132 beats per minute, which, you know, for weight training,

that seems like a decent level of exertion for, again, anywhere from 40 to 50 minutes,

three times per week, fairly vigorous. And then I was doing three mountain biking

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