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The Rich Roll Podcast

Brian MacKenzie On Slaying The Sacred Cows Of Endurance

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.713.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2013

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

According to Brian MacKenzie, most endurance & ultra-endurance athletes are doing it all wrong. The controversial founder of CrossFit Endurance stopped by the garage to illuminate me further on his perspective — one that slays the sacred aerobic cow in favor of championing focused high intensity anaerobic work coupled with technique and functional body strength. Truth or Fiction? Somewhere in between? Thanks for listening and enjoy. Rich

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0:00.0

Yeah, everybody, welcome back to the podcast. How you doing out there? I'm feeling pretty

0:12.0

good. I banged a really good week of training this week, and it's been a while since I've

0:19.2

been really intent and focused on my training. As I've said before on the podcast, I pretty

0:24.1

much took last year off from serious training, and that doesn't mean that I got completely

0:30.6

out of shape. I was still very active and running and biking and swimming and doing all that

0:35.0

kind of stuff that I loved to do, but it was in a very unfocused sort of way. I wasn't

0:40.0

working with my coach and things with intervene or stuff got busy, and I kind of let it

0:45.7

go a little bit. And now I'm kind of back on a plan on a structured protocol with my

0:51.6

coach, Chris Health, a-i-n-p coaching. If you want to learn more about him, he's the best.

0:58.8

And I'm starting to see some early season results just in my data of coming back, and it

1:03.8

feels good. And it just feels good to be accountable, to be tracking my workouts, and

1:09.5

have Chris looking over my shoulder, paying attention to what's going on. And there's

1:14.1

just something about that accountability that really kind of holds my hand of the fire

1:17.9

and keeps me going. And I'm now kind of over the hump of being, you know, really kind

1:24.1

of out of touch with real training where I'm finding a groove again and where it's fun

1:28.4

again, and I feel good in my body. And it just makes such a big difference, man. My sleep

1:33.4

is better. I'm more focused and intent upon eating the right foods. Everything kind of

1:39.8

comes into snap focus when I'm working a program. So that's been great. It's been a

1:47.8

couple days since we've brought you an episode. So we got to get back. I did three the

1:52.0

other week, and that was like a lot of work. So I hope that you're enjoying them because

1:59.2

there's a lot more to this than just recording it and saying, you know, washing your hands

2:04.2

of it, it actually takes quite a bit of time to post-produce it, get it up on the blog,

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