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'm your host, Zach Bitter.

And today I am coming to you with a listener submitted question and answer episode.

So for today's Q&A episode,

got three questions that I'm going to focus on. First one is I live in Mesa, Arizona. Can I over train in the heat with negative impacts? I think I'm going to add a little bit to that one and

just talk a little bit about heat training in general, because I think that will help you understand possibly how to avoid scenarios of overtraining

when it comes to running in the heat. Best workout to test race pace strategy for 50 kilometer

to 100 kilometer ultramarathons. And then finally, best way to get

into a low carb diet while early in training for an ultramarathon. Should I ease into it or jump

right in? All right. So first one, living in Mesa, Arizona, I can appreciate that being a Phoenician for four years myself.

I did four summers where, you know, heat was something that was inevitable.

You could always get on a treadmill or something like that if you really wanted to.

But for someone like myself, and I'm guessing similar to the person who submitted this

question, they prefer to run outside.

So the question of, am I over training?

Am I doing any damage running in the heat?

What can I do about it is very good and appropriate question to be asking yourself

if you live in these areas where it gets

really, really hot like it does in Arizona. So the way that the question is worded is looking

at overtraining. So overtraining in the sense that you can like over exert yourself and then

not be able to perform after that for a period

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