EP 598: Intermittent Fasting - Will it Help or Hinder our Performance?
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Trail Runner Nation
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🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
There has been a lot of hype around intermittent fasting for the last couple years but not a lot of decisive research or data. Coach Bob Seebohar rejoins The Nation to help us understand what intermittent fasting is and what he knows about it and help us understand if there is any benefit for endurance athletes.
Bob Seebohar is a board certified specialist in sports dietetics, exercise physiology, and an NSCA certified strength and conditioning coach. He is also the sports dietitian for the University of Denver women's gymnastic team and the University of Denver Athletics Department.
If you want to learn more about Bob and his services including his books, articles, coaching services, nutrition and more, visit ENRGPERFORMANCE. He is also the co-host of the podcast Inside Sports Nutrition with Dina Griffin.
Check out the tasty healthy snacks he invented at All-Around Snack Company.
He has been on TRN a couple other times including these two great episodes:
EP 517: Eat to Train
EP 583: TRAINING PRINCIPLES - Nutrition
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| 0:00.0 | So if you're always intermittent fasting and expecting you to have like a good run on |
| 0:07.1 | Saturday, maybe doing a three, four hour trail run on Saturday, and you've been intermittent |
| 0:11.0 | fasting all week, and basically not getting enough energy in the body, and I do want to |
| 0:16.4 | hit that here in a second, you're going to sacrifice your performance for your four, five hour |
| 0:20.8 | trail run. Welcome to the trailhead of trail runner nation, where we go on virtual trail runs |
| 0:36.9 | with guests that are going to help us become better runners, maybe possibly better human beings. |
| 0:44.0 | If it's your first time, welcome. We are going to go on a run today, lace up your shoes, |
| 0:49.8 | and enjoy the company, and today we're going to run with Bob Seberhart, and he is an expert |
| 0:55.5 | on nutrition, and we're going to dig into intermittent fasting. Is it good for us? Should we do it? |
| 1:01.7 | We're going to find out. Today's podcast is sponsored by InsideTracker. It's important to know what's |
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| 1:47.9 | of that blood work, and tell you how you can optimize your performance, and they look at the |
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