Episode #28: A Case Against Cardio Essay, Part 1

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mark Sisson tries something new with this podcast episode, as he reads an essay based on one of his most popular posts ever on MarksDailyApple.com: “A Case Against Cardio.” The original post, published in June 2007, helped shed light on the concept that extreme endurance training can actually compromise health and increase disease risk. Mark published several follow up posts over the years on the topic of chronic exercise and the ways to avoid the stress and damage caused when exercise patterns drift away from optimal stress/rest balance and into the extreme category.

Mark’s essay covers the original landmark post, along with assorted commentary from follow up posts. For devoted fitness enthusiasts with passions for Crossfit, marathons, triathlons, heavy gym class participation, or even high-energy weekend warriors who are balancing exercise goals with hectic daily life, this is a very important podcast to absorb and ponder carefully how your own exercise and stress management patterns are looking these days.

Next week, Mark will continue the theme with a Chronic Cardio Part 2 podcast where he and host Brad Kearns talk about some of the real-life cases of elite athletes being stricken with serious heart problems, some of the science behind what happens to the body when it’s pushed too hard with insufficient rest, and how you can avoid these negative consequences.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, featuring fresh and lively commentary on all things Primal,
0:06.7	including Q&A sessions with Primal Blueprint founder, Mark Sisson.
0:11.3	Special guest interviews hosted by Mark Sisson in conversations with Primal Blueprint authors and other health and fitness experts.
0:19.7	The show is presented by damage control, master formula,
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0:28.9	available at primal blueprint.com.
0:32.4	Past episodes are available for download
0:34.7	or to review written summaries at blog.
0:39.3	com.
0:44.2	And now, here's your host, Brad Kearns.
0:51.3	Okay, it's host Brad Kearns back in the Malibu Studios with Mark Sisson, and we've had a smattering of different types of podcasts with a lot of good guests, but now we're back at Ground Central with Mark.
0:57.9	And it's great to be here. I think we've had some awesome input from the guests. And now it's time to get back to what do I really think?
1:06.2	So we were thinking about how to keep it fresh and interesting for the regular listeners, and we're
1:11.3	going to try something a little different today.
1:13.8	And I thought what would be fun and interesting is for you to actually read one of your most
1:19.9	popular and influential posts, the famous case against cardio.
1:24.1	And actually, you've posted on this now several times dating back. When was the first one
1:28.3	published? 2007. I can't believe it. Okay, so for seven years, you've been, you can speak in the
1:33.6	truth to these poor endurance athletes who think they're actually being healthy and fit and trying
1:38.1	to draw the distinction there. So what we have here is a nice essay that kind of gets back to that original post,
1:45.6	but also threads in some comments from some follow-up posts.
1:48.3	So here's Mark reading a case against Cardio,
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