Episode 64: 3 Plant-Based “Forcing Functions” That Improve Your Diet

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

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🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

I’m a proud omnivore. I firmly believe that eating a balanced, “whole-foods” diet is the key to both long-term health and improved running performance.

But the issue isn’t which diet is best, but the results that a certain diet can give to you.

Over the past decade, I’ve been borderline obsessed with discovering the optimal diet for running performance.

I’ve read many of the best diet books, interviewed Registered Dietitians, pro athletes, and best-selling diet authors:

I’ve also heard first hand from elite runners, USA Track & Field instructors, and world-class coaches about the best approaches to eating for endurance runners.

And they all include meat.

But… not one person (anywhere) thinks we should eat a meat-based diet.

Whether you’re vegan or an omnivore like myself, we should all eat a plant-based diet. Here are 3 strategies that work well for me.

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0:00.0	Ready, set, go.
0:04.8	This is episode 64, all about eating a healthier diet for more energy, better overall health,
0:10.3	and faster recovery. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host Jason Fitzgerald and today we're talking
0:25.0	about a running side topic. Your nutrition. After all, we can't run well and
0:29.7	race fast if we're not fueling our body with good nutritious food. Now full disclosure I am not
0:36.0	a registered dietician nor do I play one on the internet. So I'm approaching this topic as a
0:40.6	journalist based on the books that I've read, the people that I've talked to
0:45.2	and interviewed, and all of the research I've done on this topic, because over the last decade
0:51.7	or so I've been borderline obsessed with discovering the optimal diet for running performance.
0:58.0	So I've read a lot of the best diet books, books like Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald, The Paleo Diet for Athletes by
1:05.6	Loreen Cordane and Joel Freel, The Omnivorous Delema, A Natural History of Four Meals
1:10.4	by Michael Pollan, No Mead Athlet athlete by Matt Frazier. These are all
1:14.3	wonderful books that I've definitely recommend to you, but I've also
1:18.4	interviewed registered dieticians, pro-runners, best-selling diet authors, folks like Matt Fitzgerald when he wrote
1:26.0	the endurance diet, pro-Marathon Ariana Hillborn, Elite Obstacle Course athletebermatics, and of course my registered dietician friend
1:37.0	Anne Mani, who also has a master's in public health.
1:40.0	Now, I've also heard firsthand from Elite Runners, USA track and field instructors and other top coaches
1:47.9	about the best approaches for eating for endurance runners.
1:52.7	And I've noticed an interesting commonality among all of these folks.
1:57.7	So whether you're an athlete, a scientist, a dietician, an author author every one of these people who's concerned with
2:06.2	performance note that meat is part of this performance diet but of course not one person anywhere thinks that we should be eating a meat-based
2:16.7	diet. Just the notion of a meat-based diet is ridiculous. So whether you're a
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