In this podcast, while Ben is away, the sidekick will play, you a couple of the most popular interviews from the archives featuring Dr. Tim Noakes.

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Hey there folks, Brock here. Today we bring you to the most popular interviews from the Ben Greenfield Fitness Archives. Both of them are with Dr. Tim Noakes. And we're doing this because Ben is still off in Thailand or he's somewhere in between Thailand and the USA.

Trying to make his way home from the Asia Pacific 70.3 World Championships race. And for those of you who haven't heard yet, Ben had a bit of an interesting time while he was in Thailand. Not exactly what he had in mind, but he's kept it interesting.

Here's Nexerpt from his race report that he put up on his website the other day. See, he says, two weeks prior to the race, I had a nasty fall on the ice during a cold weather run and tweaked my IT band.

Within just a few days I was back training, but not about to go and do any hard 40 to 50 mile bike rides to see if the knee would be good enough for Puket.

I just had to have faith that the knee would handle the load on race day, then just two days prior to the race in one of the multitude of restaurants I'd dined at.

I got a bad batch of food and it left me sleepless and pooing my guts until race morning.

So yeah, I don't think that's exactly what Ben had in mind, but he made the best of it. It sounds like he had a pretty good time anyway and he'll be back next week to do the show as normal.

So here I'm just going to cover a few special announcements.

Special announcements.

Awesome, okay, special announcements. There's some cool new articles up at BenGreenfieldFitness.com this week.

The first one is how to get legs like Lance Armstrong. Everybody wants to have legs like Lance, right?

So that's a great article to take a look at. And the second one is the four fat burning functional exercise circuits to do.

Next time you need a fast fresh new workout. And once again, who doesn't need a fast fresh new workout? I know I do.

And also, don't forget the Ben's book, Weight Training for Triathlon, the Ultimate Guide, is taking Apple iTunes, Barnes and Noble Nook, and Amazon Kindle by Storm.

And it's a top seller in each of them. So if you haven't grabbed a copy yet, head over to the show notes and you can find the link to find this essential off-training tool. Now onto the newsflashes.

Okay, lots of stuff going on in the newsflashes today. And if you want to get newsflashes right from Ben, right when they're fresh off the press, just follow BenGreenfield on Twitter at www.twitter.com

slash BenGreenfield. Now if you want to just get a taste of what he's been talking about lately, some of the recent articles that Ben has tweeted about include exercise kills more firefighters than fires.

A reason to introduce good nutrition to fire houses. Another one was cigarettes can improve running performance and caffeine gives you cancer. Now there's a little smiley face at the end of that one. So I think you need to go and check that out.

There's an interesting study that compression socks help during recovery phases of an interval workout. And there was one more said protein rich meals are better than sugar rich meals at improving wakefulness.

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