EP 255: Dave MacLeod Returns — Moving the Needle on Your Climbing, the Value of Daydreaming, & How to Thrive in Your 40s

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 235 minutes

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Summary

Dave MacLeod is one of the best all-around climbers in the world. He returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Moving the Needle. We discuss the simple decisions that led to his success, getting the basics right, how to climb harder in your 40s, the value of daydreaming, writing books, how diet affects mood, Paul Saladino’s meat and fruit approach, how to thrive on a keto diet, metabolic health, LCL cholesterol, seed oils, alcohol, the state of scientific research, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.
0:05.9	It's good to be back after the holidays.
0:08.4	Dave McLeod is back on the show today.
0:11.4	Dave is a fan favorite.
0:12.5	His first episode, episode 56, is still one of my all-time most downloaded episodes.
0:18.6	Dave has a new book out called Moving the Needle, How an
0:21.6	Average Climber Can Do the Hardest Rout in the World. It's a beautiful book. I just got a
0:26.6	copy. I highly recommend you guys checking it out. And that was the theme of today's episode.
0:31.3	We talked about some of the simple decisions that he made at different points in his career
0:36.2	that led to his success.
0:38.1	There was some training talk. We talked about finger strength a little bit. We talked about
0:41.9	bouldering sessions on the board. We talked about lifestyle and balancing climbing and work and
0:47.6	family and how to set up your life to make it hard to fail. And we talked about diet. Dave has a
0:53.6	master's in nutrition.
0:54.5	He's also a frequent self-experimenter and a fan of the carnivore diet and the ketogenic diet.
1:01.1	We talked about where he's at these days with his diet and why he keeps coming back to keto
1:05.1	and dove into several geeky diet and health-related questions.
1:10.4	So a lot of good stuff in this one, and I think
1:12.8	many of you will really enjoy this episode. I have a request before we jump into the podcast. We're
1:19.9	coming up on five years of the podcast. My anniversary is on February 1st. And if you've been listening
1:25.7	for a while, and if you love the show, I would
1:27.7	greatly appreciate a rating or a review on Spotify and Apple Podcast specifically. If you listen on
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