Episode 20 - Author Matt Fitzgerald on "The Endurance Diet"

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

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🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Diet is more important than most runners realize - and the effects of poor eating habits can derail anybody's running:

If you don't eat enough, you're more prone to running injuries and won't run as quickly during races or workouts
If you eat too much, you'll gain weight and running economy will suffer
A sub-par diet results in poor recovery (and could result in weight gain, too)
A sub-par diet also causes low energy levels outside of running

But if you dial in your nutrition then performances will improve, recovery will be faster, and you'll just feel better.

And I think every runner would benefit from that.

To help optimize our dietary choices and approach to fueling, I invited author Matt Fitzgerald onto the podcast today.

Over the last several years, Matt has been investigating the eating habits of professional endurance athletes around the world.

And his findings are powerful. World-Class runners in the United Sates, top swimmers in Australia, and champion triathletes in South Africa all have one thing in common: their diet.

There's overwhelming evidence from around the world - and indeed, from every type of endurance sport - that the best runners in the world all eat the same way.

Matt calls this approach The Endurance Diet and outlines five foundational habits that shape how elite runners fuel their training.

And on the podcast, we outline each of these habits and how you can apply them to your life. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	Go!
0:04.0	This is episode 20 with certified sports nutritionist,
0:08.0	author of over 25 books, contributor to virtually every major media publication there is and my brother from another mother, Mr.
0:15.9	Matt Fitzgerald. Welcome back to the show. I'm Jason Fitzgerald, the head coach of
0:36.2	Strength Running, and we're talking about something a little different today.
0:39.1	How runners should eat. Now, I'm not a nutrition expert, a registered dietician, I have no
0:45.4	certifications in this area and I certainly don't play a nutritionist on the
0:49.5	internets. But what we're going to do is draw from other experts in this field to help us
0:56.0	understand the nuances of eating for endurance. So I've invited an award-winning
1:01.1	endurance sports journalist onto the program today Mr. Matt Fitzgerald.
1:05.2	His latest book is The Endurance Diet and to write it he's interviewed and spent time with a lot of
1:10.5	elite athletes from around the world.
1:12.7	Everyone from professional cyclists, swimmers, triathletes, rowers,
1:17.2	and yes, even runners.
1:18.6	And he teased out the five core habits
1:20.9	that they all share when it comes to their approach to nutrition, how you can adopt
1:25.0	those habits and the science that surrounds this approach.
1:28.6	It's a really interesting subject and since I believe that the next big frontier in performance improvement is going to come from diet,
1:36.0	there's a lot of opportunity to improve your own training by dialing in better nutrition.
1:41.0	And thanks to our sponsor today, Generation You Can, a patented fueling product that
1:45.1	stabilizes blood sugar, delivers steady energy with no crash or GI distress.
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