Debbie Potts: Fat adapted endurance training

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

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

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Host Brad Kearns gets deep into the world of fat adapted endurance training and functional medicine for holistic healing with ironman athlete and nutrition expert Debbie Potts. Debbie and prominent exercise physiologist Paul Laursen are holding a free seminar in Kona on the subject during the Big Show in October. In this episode, Debbie and Brad talk about the importance of taking care of your health as you pursue ambitious endurance goals. Debbie mentions the functional health approach of HIDDEN: Hormones, Immunity, Digestion, Detox, Energy and Neurotransmitters. Don’t make the mistake of a narrowly focused approach that gets you fit and unhealthy. Also learn some ideas about optimizing carb intake for endurance training, including sorting out hype from legit strategies and how you can customize your approach for best results.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the primal endurance podcast.
0:05.4	Slow down and enjoy the show, where we wrap, literally, about everything you need to know.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Brad Kearns. Are you ready? Let's go.
0:16.2	Debbie Potts.
0:17.5	Brad Kearns.
0:18.9	Welcome. So nice to connect with you.
0:22.1	And we have some fun things to talk about, namely the fat-adapted endurance athlete scene is finally taking off.
0:31.7	Well, we've been, you know, exploring this concept for many years.
0:39.7	And now it seems like it's hit mainstream,
0:45.1	including elite athletes. So let's check in with you with your finger on the pulse of the scene and tell me what you see, you know, in the elite triathlon world, the ultra-distance, as far as
0:51.2	people transitioning over to the, not the diet but the training everything that
0:56.1	goes together with fat adapted endurance training well brad thanks for having me on it's really
1:02.6	funny that i just laugh at all this i mean it's exciting but it's funny to me too because we
1:09.5	started fit fat fast podcast john John Smith and I in 2011.
1:13.3	And this is everything we talked about.
1:15.2	Eat fat to burn fat, metabolic efficiency, metabolic flexibility.
1:19.9	I was doing math heart rate training and started doing Iron Man's 2001, but I started doing
1:25.0	low carb, you can, and metabolic efficiency testing and training myself
1:30.6	in 2005. And it's 2019 right now. And it's exciting that it's finally catching on. And,
1:38.6	you know, it's kind of a good turning point for myself personally on a professional level. I'm closing my fitness studio and I've been a trainer, personal trainer for 25 years and a coach
1:49.0	and having my own fitness studio for 12 years on my own that I'm closing that door and this
1:56.5	new door is opening up to help coach athletes to be fat adapted, but also the other side, the
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