Episode #29: A Case Against Cardio Essay, Part 2

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Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

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

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mark Sisson follows up his essay reading last week with an engaging discussion with host Brad Kearns about the dangers of chronic cardio, and some tips to help avoid the drawbacks of chronic exercise patterns. Brad and Mark discuss numerous real-life case studies of elite athletes in endurance sports such as ironman triathlon and long distance running, who have suffered serious heart problems. Mark and Brad mention the tragic deaths of multi-sport athlete Steve Larsen at age 39 (heart attack while running), and Ryan Shay (heart attack while racing the US Olympic trials marathon), along with an assortment of other high profile athletes and their ordeals.

Mark presents a compelling solution in essay form, pulling highlights from some popular follow-up blog posts on the subject. Mark mentions eating Primally, downscaling the "filler" workouts that happen between challenging "breakthrough" sessions, and realizing that interval and sprint workouts can deliver a training effect superior to long-duration workouts, while also alleviating the risks of drifting into a chronic pattern. For a good takeaway sound bite, Mark reiterates a message from a popular post about burning a total of only around 4,000 calories per week during structured exercise sessions. This is a general rule of thumb that correlates with an impressive assortment of different types of workouts that develop broad-based functional fitness, and helps protect against the excesses of chronic exercise.

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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.
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0:28.9	available at primal blueprint.com.
0:32.6	Past episodes are available for download
0:34.7	or to review written summaries at blog.
0:39.3	com.
0:44.3	And now, here's your host, Brad Kearns.
0:54.2	Welcome back to the Malibu Studios. I'm your host, Brad Kearns. Back with Mark Sisson and Mark, we promised last time that we would get into this a little bit more, the chronic cardio topic after you read that nice essay.
0:57.9	Yeah, I think it's important to get into some of the specifics and some of the details, because
1:01.9	there's still that backlash that, well, Mark, you're beating a dead horse here, that chronic
1:08.2	cardio really isn't an issue for a lot of people.
1:10.7	The fact that I,
1:11.6	in my youth, trained 100 miles a week and went hard just about every day was sort of an anomaly.
1:17.6	People don't do that anymore. They might have followed Liddiard or Surrudi or some of these
1:22.2	other programs that are hard easy. But the fact is, anybody who's training more than, you know, running more
1:28.4	than 35 or 40 miles a week, anybody who's cycling, you know, 200 miles a week, even as a
1:34.8	recreational athlete, ought to start paying attention to some of the signals here.
1:38.5	Well, including the other stress factors that we add up to. And then when you coach me,
1:43.7	you would always mention that big picture where jet travel,
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