In this podcast, staying safe during interval training, whole body vibration,

electrical impedance testing, how to do ice baths, acne remedies, seasonal effective disorder,

ARP wave therapy, adaptogens, training for cyclocross, congenital inflexibility,

bloating after swimming, and foamy sweat.

Welcome to the Ben Greenfield thickness.com podcast.

We provide you with free exercise, nutrition, weight loss, triathlon, and wellness advice

from the top fitness experts in the nation. So whether you're an iron man triathlete

or you're just trying to shed a few pounds, get ready for non-run-of-the-mill cutting-edge content

from Ben Greenfield fitness.com.

Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here, and as you may have guessed from that introduction,

we are going to be covering a huge range of topics during today's podcast. And the reason for

that is because every once in a while there gets to be such a big backlog of questions in the Q&A

box that I really need to just go through and address many of them. So that's what we are going

to be doing today and then we'll resume our featured topics next week in an interview with Dr.

Phil Maffatone. Now what we're going to do is instead of having an entire section of the podcast

devoted to special announcements, let me just mention a couple things really quickly. The first is

that this Friday, I'm teaching a free seminar. It's Friday, September 2nd, it's at 6pm, it's

online. I will put a link to it in the show notes for this episode, which is episode number 161

over at Ben Greenfield fitness.com. And the title of this free seminar that I'm teaching is called

Secrets to Self Planning Your Weekly Workouts. So if you get kind of confused or frustrated with

figuring out when are the best times to cross train and lift weights and swim or bike or run or

take your gym classes, I'm going to kind of teach you and help you know which days to go hard,

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