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Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Episode 347: Low Carb Endurance - Dr. Dan Plews

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.8622 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Dan Plews is an Applied Sports Scientist (PhD Exercise Physiology), researcher, and endurance coach. He has competed at a high level in triathlon, including an age group record at Kona. He has worked with numerous world and Olympic class athletes in the sports of rowing, kayak, and triathlon. He employs a low carbohydrate approach to his own training and racing, and with some of his coaching clients.

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0:00.0

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

0:12.2

All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers

0:15.4

podcast. I'm your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a guest interview for you.

0:20.7

Today's guest is Dr. Dan Ploos. Dr. Ploos is actually a

0:24.6

return guest. He was on, it may have even been a few years ago at this point, at least a couple

0:28.9

years ago, and we talked about just his understanding and take on low carbohydrate endurance.

0:36.3

So I want to head if Dr. Ploos back on to chat about some of the

0:40.4

updates that we've seen over the years or the things he's learned or seen that differ

0:45.1

or add to what we talked about in that other episode. And even maybe a little more specifically,

0:51.2

it was a bit timely in the sense that there was a study just released.

0:55.9

I did a episode on it was episode 341 called New Study Questions, Low Carbohydrate Performance

1:02.4

Deficit. So I wanted to hear what he thought about that. If he saw any limitations or anything

1:07.6

really new and earth-shattering about it, obviously, I did an episode on it, so I gave

1:13.3

my take on some things where I thought maybe there were some limitations or what we would see

1:17.4

if we would actually stretch it out longer versus what questions maybe it did answer, which I think

1:24.0

is just a good way to maybe look at anyone's study because ultimately these studies can only address a certain number of questions. And a lot of times they're going to have to

1:32.0

leave other questions off the table or in a lot of cases actually generate new questions. So

1:36.3

you don't always walk away feeling like you gained the end all be all answer to anything with

1:42.0

some of this stuff. But interesting nonetheless. So if you're interested, check out that episode. I talked to Dr. Dan about that as well as a

1:48.8

bunch of other things. So for those of you who want to know a little bit about Dan's background,

1:52.7

Dr. Dan pluse is an applied sports scientist. He has a PhD in exercise physiology. He's a researcher

1:59.3

and endurance coach. He has a researcher and endurance coach.

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