In this podcast episode, a lot of questions about fitness, nutrition, and much more.

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Hey folks, Ben Greenfield here and I've just returned from a triathlon in Jamaica called the Rose Hall triathlon. And it was a great time, beautiful race, but very little internet access where I was staying.

And so I have a huge backlog of questions that I'll be addressing on this podcast. We cover a wide range of topics and I promise that you'll get a lot out of listening in.

Because of the number of questions, we actually aren't going to have an interview today, but we'll get back to our interviews next week along with an Inner Circle podcast released later this week as well.

I know I promised you the Inner Circle podcast last week, but due to lack of internet access, I was unable to upload audio and so that will come out later this week and that Inner Circle podcast will be touching on the importance of breakfast and also tons of ideas, healthy ideas for breakfast and for lunch for both kids and adults.

So wait for that later this week and right now we're going to go ahead and launch right into the Q&A. There are a few special announcements, but why don't you just access those on the show notes so we can jump right into the content.

And remember that the show notes are over at bengreenfieldfitness.com and this is episode 117.

Listener Q&A.

Hi Ben, this is Erin Mera. I have a question for quite a while now. I've been experiencing some aches and not necessarily a pain in my right.

My arm are not my hamstring but my quad while riding the bike. It's as a training for I am in Arizona and as my rides are getting longer, it seems to be getting worse.

It's like fatigue and ache only on the right side and it comes and goes well immediately when I get on the bike and continue throughout the ride or it will start later on in the ride, it really doesn't matter.

But I'll come on when I got more resistant. So like health or when there's wind, when out for a flat 90 mileer yesterday and there's a lot of wind, we have just about 18 miles per hour.

Well, Erin's question goes on for a little while but basically she winds up saying that no matter what she does, it seems to ache and not necessarily hurt just in that right section of the thigh and often down into the outside of the knee just a little bit.

Well, when you're experiencing something like this and it's not actually an issue of not having enough water or not having enough fuel on board, typically it's due to one of two possible factors.

The first is that there's some issue going on with the nerves and the bundles that run down from your spinal area and your low back joints down into your leg.

Now, if there is a malalignment or misalignment of your sacriiliac joint or of your spine, then a lot of times those nerves aren't going to work the way that they're supposed to and a lot of times you'll find it occurs on just one side of your body or the other, typically the more immobile hip is going to have a little bit less nerve activation for the muscles going down that side.

So it could be that your right sacriiliac joint is actually stuck and you may need to go see a sports chiropractor to actually have that adjusted so that you have better, better neuromuscular control on that right side.

The other option is that there may be some actual muscle tightness and inflammation going on and a lot of times you'll experience that more on both sides when it's an issue, but occasionally, especially if it goes hand in hand with poor mobility on just one side of the hip, that can also be an issue.

What I would recommend that you do in that case is begin to use a foam roller and get some deep tissue massage on that right side and it may be that you need to combine that with about one to two weeks of not doing much cycling to allow the tightness and inflammation to subside as you work on making that part of your body more immobile and combining those two factors, making sure that your sacriiliac joint is adjusted along with making sure that the soft tissue along the outside of that affected leg.

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