Episode 319: Speedwork, Weight Loss & Performance, Tapering & Hydration

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Sports, Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Hybridathlete, Ultra, Endurance, Ultramarathon, Running, Run

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This is a listener generated question and topic episode! The four questions/topics are below:

1) How important is tapering for a 100km and what does it look like?

2) Increasing speedwork with long distance running.

3) Losing weight while training for an event. Is Keto optimal?

4) Is training with less water for an ultramarathon worth it or no real benefit?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.
0:09.9	All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.
0:13.9	I'm your host, Zach Bitter.
0:15.5	Today, I have a solo episode for you that is inspired by some topics and questions that have been sent in through
0:22.6	the listeners. So today's episode, I have four questions or topics that got sent my way,
0:28.6	and we're going to go through those. If you are interested in having a topic or question
0:35.7	addressed on this show.
0:38.1	Feel free to reach out to me.
0:39.6	You can do that through the show's email address,
0:42.2	which is just HPO podcast at gmail.com,
0:45.9	or reach out to me on social media.
0:48.6	Instagram is at Zach Bitter, Twitter, at Z Bitter,
0:51.1	and Facebook is at Z Bitter Endurance.
0:54.2	The questions for today, I tried to group together to some degree as much as I could.
1:00.8	And they include how important is a well-executed taper for 100 kilometer and what does it look like?
1:07.8	So this question, I sort of tried to open up a little bit to Tapers in general,
1:13.0	too, because I appreciate some of the listeners will probably be curious about this specific
1:16.3	question, but maybe not necessarily skewed towards the 100 kilometer distance, but also did
1:21.0	touch on that. Also, can you share a little on increasing speed with long distance running?
1:29.6	So for that question I talked about just kind of like maybe the role of speed work is going
1:33.7	to play within a long distance running program, but mostly spoke to how to kind of introduce
1:42.2	it or what is kind of like the order of operations with speedwork
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