The good news is that you've cleaned yourself up. You're starting to notice the changes.

Welcome to the primary blueprint podcast.

Bad news is if you go back to the way you eat from our studios in Malibu, California,

you'll notice really amazing changes in your body as a result of those bites of food that you've eaten.

Welcome, it's host Brad Kearns back in the studio in Malibu with Mark Sisson after a whirlwind of some fun,

different sort of podcasts. We're back with the questions piling up, Mark.

We've been promising to answer questions for a couple of podcasts now and never get around to it.

So that's all we're doing today is questions.

Here's a fun one that we talked about a bit off the air coming from me, the former washed up now professional

triathlete, but back in the day, we were remembering that when you were coaching us, we were

complaining about not being able to recover from this standard weekly training schedule

where we had our hard run on Tuesday and our long ride on Friday and

our long run on Sunday and you just get into this cycle where you're constantly stressed by

the next upcoming workout. And then you suggested one time, hey, why don't you just stack up

doing the long hard run on Tuesday and then the very next day do the long hard bike ride

in the mountains and it seemed

daunting at the time but it kind of worked out in a really interesting way can you describe what

your thought process was and why the body might benefit from stacking up hard workouts rather than

spacing them as is commonly believed to be the way to go yeah we them out, trying to allow for full recovery between each of the workouts,

but full recovery never really happens when you are at that elite level,

and you're training that hard all the time.

So even if you, you know, take a day or a day and a half or maybe even two days between hard workouts,

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