Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I am coming to you today with a solo episode.

So following kind of the trends with the solo episodes, they are

mostly dedicated towards kind of listener driven questions and topics that get sent to me

throughout the week. And I usually focus on about three of them. So I've got three coming to you

today. They are revolving around some of the preparation that I do kind of before a big

run or workout what I like to eat before and after and then during that sort of stuff.

Also like one question with like an older runner coming back from injury, what's kind of like a good

protocol to follow to make sure you have a successful return. And then finally, another one that

has to do with a really cool project, an attempt to deadlift 500 pounds and run 50 miles all in the

same day. So we're going to dive into

those here in a minute. And then for this, this solo episode, I also put together a sample

day where I highlight the workouts and what I ate that day. The goal with these are to kind

of over the course of time, have a fairly wide variety of

different days during the year for me and kind of highlight what I do during those days as

well as what I eat to supplement them.

And one of the reasons why I like that is because it does get a little polarizing given

what I do.

A lot of folks probably try to structure their days

to be somewhat similar in terms of what they eat and do. But when you're training for

endurance races, there are going to be big training days and there's going to be rest days. And

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