Dude Spellings: Micro-Workouts, Calorie Compensation, Blue Light and Melatonin

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

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

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Host Brad Kearns welcomes popular guest Dude Spellings from his base in the cool headquarters of the world, Austin, TX. Dude has used the quarantine to implement an extremely successful micro-workout program at home where he takes a break every hour to perform a few minutes of bodyweight exercises. The show covers the emerging fitness revolution of kinder, gentler workouts that minimize muscle soreness, post-exercise fatigue and the high risk of burnout that comes from the traditional approach of doing epic workouts in high energy group settings.

The great work of Pavel Tsatsouline, Dr. Craig Marker, Dr. Phil Maffetone and MMA trainer Firas Zahabi is referenced. The priority seems to be switching from doing epic sessions at the gym that come with high risk of exhaustion to simply being more active in everyday life, and also finding ways to perform fitness activities "under the radar"--where they don't fatigue you but deliver an awesome cumulative fitness benefit. The rationale for this is even stronger when you consider the compensation theory insights that increased calorie burning during workouts does not lead to fat loss. Dude also talks about how to minimize blue light exposure in your home, especially in the evenings, so you can facilitate healthy melatonin production in the evening and a natural cortisol and serotonin boost in the morning.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.
0:09.9	Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalbluprint.com.
0:22.7	Dude Spillings. back in the hot seat coming to you from Austin, Texas.
0:28.2	You must be hip, slick and cool since you moved to Austin, Texas.
0:31.5	Oh, wait, you were born and raised there and saw everybody come in and infiltrate your cool
0:36.1	town.
0:36.8	What is it like? I mean, come on,
0:38.5	this place is now the world headquarters. Every time I send an email or hear from somebody, they say,
0:44.5	I'm about to move to Austin or I just did, the latest one being Dr. Paul Saladino. Yeah,
0:50.2	it's, it's been great seeing Austin grow like it is and really make its mark on the map.
0:57.0	You know, I, when I was a kid, literally, I mean, people won't believe this, but when I was a kid, you know, we would travel to see relatives and stuff.
1:07.0	And I would tell people, yeah, I'm from Austin.
1:10.0	And they would say, Austin, where?
1:13.4	Where is that? Like, they literally didn't know. And I would even say, we would even say,
1:18.9	oh, it's the capital of Texas. And because of the, remember the TV show, Dallas in the 80s,
1:25.9	they would, people would always respond, oh, I thought Dallas was the capital.
1:29.5	Right. Yeah, like LA, San Francisco, San Diego. Oh, nope, Sacramento, yeah. Right. Yeah, very similar.
1:36.7	Yeah. Now it's not only the capital of Texas, but the capital of progressive health, ancestral
1:41.6	health, paleo, living. And it's kind of a utopia in many ways,
1:46.1	but I know probably some of the characters changed, and I wonder if there's, you know,
1:51.7	a give and take here when you have that explosion of popularity, kind of like Boulder or in
1:57.5	smaller cases, Portland or Bend, Oregon, where, you know, once upon upon a time it was kind of like a hick town,
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