In this podcast episode, a double interview swimming super special on swimming nutrition and swim form where their heart rate monitors are actually accurate when predicting calories burnt.

Listener Q&As about yeast infections in the gut, naturally fighting an age-related decrease in metabolism, way protein allergies, a high heart rate during exercise, salt cravings, gym sticks, and low back pain.

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Hey podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield and I'm actually in Toronto, Canada right now at Can Fit Pro, which is this big conglomerate of fitness professionals and personal trainers, group fitness instructors, gathered together up in Canada.

I came up here to give a seminar and we'll be headed back tomorrow down to the states to race in the Portland triathlon down there in Portland.

So I hope to see some of you podcast listeners down there, be sure to come up and say hello.

Got a lot of questions this week and also have some really interesting interviews on swimming, got a Pacific Elite Fitness Coach and pro triathlete John Kenny back on the show, as well as Paul from Perth, Western Australia to talk about swimming and primarily open water swimming.

A lot of really interesting listener questions so what we're going to do is just spend time on a couple of special announcements and then we'll move straight on to the listener, Q and A.

And one thing that I wanted to mention to you just real quickly is that if you have not figured out yet how to automatically subscribe to this podcast and iTunes so it automatically gets downloaded to your computer when it's released and it automatically syncs up.

Then you're missing out on one of the finer things in life and you're spending a lot of time that you could spend doing more fun things like playing with your kids or drinking a nice glass of wine or spending time on Twitter.

So make sure that you figure out how to do that and I tune and subscribe. If you have any questions just email me, Ben at BenGreenfieldFitness.com. I'd be happy to show you how to do it or you could even go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com and click the little link there in the right hand sidebar that says how to subscribe.

And while you're there, check out all the other things that I put in that sidebar. Any time a sponsor of the show gives us a discount or anytime I find a product that I like, I usually throw it in there, so check that out.

Let's go ahead and move on to some announcements before we get to the listener Q&As for this week.

So just a few quick things this week in the way of special announcements. The first is that last week I announced that for those of you out there who are cyclists, who are triathletes,

who want to get your hands on a Ben Greenfield fitness and Pacific Elite fitness cycling jersey, we have tops and shorts available, or at least we have the opportunity to order them, but we have to order a certain number.

And folks, we only need three more orders to be able to get to capacity and send these things out to you. I'm getting them made at cost and sending them out free.

As far as the shipping is concerned, all I need is three more listeners to actually get their hands on one of these cycling jersey short combos.

They are 130 and you can pretty easily just do that via PayPal. I'll get you set up and you'll get the jersey within about four to five weeks.

But if you're interested in getting that, they're going to be pretty cool looking and we've got quite a few people signed up so far about any three more orders.

So if you're interested in doing that, just go ahead and shoot me an email, Ben at BenGreenfieldFitness.com.

One other thing or two other things, rather, is that I still am forming a fat loss group over in Coralane Idaho and Spokane, Washington, for anyone who is interested in trying out the HCG diet for fat loss.

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