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about everything you need to know. I'm your host, Brad Kearns. Are you ready? Let's go.

Okay, so this is part two. Time to get explosive! Yes, we're going to package the high-intensity

repeat training with that long commitment devotion to the aerobic base, the cardiovascular

conditioning, and of course the endurance goals. But this is where we can make fantastic improvements

in a very short time by putting proper time and attention and preparation and focus on these

high-intensity workouts. They're so egregiously disregarded by endurance athletes out there

plotting. Oh, there's going to be all kinds of benefits. I'm going to tell you

how to do it right so you don't trash yourself. So if you've tried to get into these before and

had long recovery time after, there's a reason because you broke down your cells, destroyed your cells,

put toxic substances into your bloodstream to have to deal with. So we're going to do it the right way.

It's going to be fun. Here we go with the show, emphasizing the explosive workouts.

So yes, a 10-second all-out sprint, a workout where you do, a succession of those will pay off

great dividends to your 10K racing time, to your half-ironman participation time,

to your ultra-marathon run, because what you're doing is you're making your body resilient

to perform at all lower levels of intensity. You reduce your perceived exertion at all paces per

mile below that so that if you're good at sprinting

and you can exhibit good form and a good explosive, propulsive force off the ground with each

stride, that will pay off when you're running a 10-minute mile, a 9-minute mile, an 8-minute

mile, whatever. We talk about this in the book, Primal Endurance for a couple

few pages directly on this topic about why sprinting will improve your performance as you

carry on at longer intensities. There's a whole bunch of reasons, it has to do with fat and

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