Ben Greenfield: easy tips to increase your fitness

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 February 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Get out your dictionary and slow down the playback on your MP3 player! Ben Greenfield, fitness expert and top ranked Iron-Man triathlete teaches about

Cold Thermogenisis
Exercise throughout the day
How Fasting can help you turn your body into a fat-burning machine
How to "Grease your Groove"
The importance of breathing correctly

Ben can be found on four of his own podcasts:

Endurance Planet
Git Fit Guy
Ben Greenfield Fitness
Rock Star Podcast

You can also find other valuable articles and tools on many of his web sites:

Here are some of the links to information that we talked about

Fasting e-book by Dr. John Berardi
"Running on Air" book by Budd Coates
Nose Breathing Benefits by Dr. John Douillard
Cold Vest
Power Lung
Elevation Training Mask

"Race Course in Review" by Vasque Running Shoes

Take the Tailwind Challenge at: Tailwind Nutrition

Check out the cool headlamps made for trail running at Petzl

Transcript

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0:00.0	And today's podcast is brought to you in part by Petzl.
0:14.2	Today's Petzl running strategy is brought to us by our favorite nutritionist, Sunny
0:19.5	Blende.
0:20.5	What do you have for us, Sunny?
0:22.5	A way to keep you from spiking your sugar as much, so if you are eating something gooey
0:29.0	and sugary and you don't want a big spike from it, you can combine it with three different
0:34.2	things.
0:35.2	Fiber, protein or fat.
0:38.4	Fiber is free, no calories, protein is the next best thing, but the last thing also
0:43.1	is fat.
0:44.1	All three of those will keep you from spiking your blood sugar as much as sugar alone.
0:49.6	So does that mean that bacon donut is good for me?
0:54.8	I could have that donut with bacon.
0:55.8	Probably neither one are good, but they're probably better in combination.
0:59.2	Okay.
1:00.2	If you want to be able to see well on the trail and see Scott huddled over in an aid station
1:05.7	eating a donut wrapped in bacon, you'll need a Petzl headlamp so he cannot hide from you.
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