Episode #7: Primal Blueprint Fitness with Mark Sisson
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Mark Sisson addresses the common theme of devoted fitness enthusiasts who tend to exercise in a chronic pattern, and suffer from declines in health and fitness accordingly. Sisson discusses how to transition out of a chronic pattern and into a sweet spot where your fitness efforts are sufficient to support outstanding fitness, peak performance efforts, and safe, diverse, injury-free play efforts, but not too extreme or excessive where you might compromise your health.
Included in this discussion are the potential pitfalls of pursuing the endorphin high to excess, the importance of cultivating an intuitive approach to workout planning rather than a robotic approach, and the importance of each of the three Primal Blueprint fitness laws: Move frequently at a slow pace, Lift heavy things, and Sprint once in a while.
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| 0:00.0 | The reality is the reason we want to work out. |
| 0:03.7 | Welcome to the primal blueprint podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | It's distressed the body enough so the body response. |
| 0:08.6 | Studios in Malibu, California. |
| 0:09.8 | Genetically so that we get what we want. |
| 0:11.8 | We get that strong, lean, fit, happy, healthy body. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to another primal blueprint podcast here in the Malibu Studios. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm host Brad Kearns with our favorite guest, Mark Sisson. |
| 0:23.0 | And we have to say, before we start, thank you so much to the listeners because we're going |
| 0:27.6 | up the charts on iTunes. What do you think, Mark? It was awesome. We debuted at number one last week |
| 0:32.2 | with the podcast under the category of health. So I'm very proud of that. And let's see if we |
| 0:37.4 | can keep that up. |
| 0:38.5 | So today, let's do a podcast on the Primal Blueprint Fitness Strategy. |
| 0:44.0 | And one of the main things that we've seen with our guests at PrimalCon and our readers |
| 0:48.8 | is there seems to be a distinct group of people who are quite hardcore. |
| 0:53.0 | They're really into the CrossFit thing, |
| 0:54.4 | they're working out like crazy, or they're from the endurance scene where they're training for |
| 0:57.4 | incredible endurance feats and immersed in a really intensive schedule. Or on the flip side, |
| 1:04.2 | we have people that are busy, maybe not so athletic, and they're just doing a perfunctory approach |
| 1:09.1 | to exercise where they go to the gym a couple times a week and ride the elliptical and read their magazine and go home. And so we want to |
| 1:14.7 | get more people into that sweet spot where they're embodying the three primal blueprint fitness laws. |
| 1:20.4 | And we talked about those on a previous podcast, but why don't you just briefly go over |
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