In this episode, are you exercising too hard, organizing your gear, intravenous vitamin therapy,

polycystic ovarian syndrome, training with Jack Daniels, giving blood while training for

marathons, exercising too much, using a sauna for heat acclimation, and trouble with

knees?

Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness.com podcast. We provide you with free exercise,

nutrition, weight loss, triathlete, 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 in today's episode we have a fantastic interview about how

to know if you are exercising too much or training too hard, and this is going to be with Phil

Maffatone, who's been on the podcast before, and he's back with even more cool information,

very cool knowledgeable guy. He's experienced in all aspects of medicine, and especially natural

medicine, but particularly has a lot of experience in endurance sports. So I think you're going to get

a lot out of this interview. Now I wanted to tell you something real quick before we get into

this week's Listener Q&A, and that is that I was at the gym two days ago. I'm running on the

treadmill. I'm getting ready for my big race in Las Vegas this weekend, and this guy hops on

the treadmill beside me, and he takes out his phone and he puts it up there on the treadmill

dashboard, which is where a lot of people put their phones where they're going to listen to music,

but rather than putting headphones in his ears, he just put his phone on speaker phone where

everybody else in the gym, or at least I could hear it quite clearly, and he starts pumping out

his music, almost like a little mini boombox, sitting right there on the treadmill dashboard.

I thought that was a little weird, little strange, and it got me thinking that there's probably

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