Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield.

As you are listening to this podcast episode, I'm somewhere in the backwoods of Vermont

competing in the 60-hour winter suffer fest called the Spartan Agoji.

You can check that out at bengreenfieldfitness.com slash agoji.

That's A-G-O-G-E.

Considering it is supposed to be about negative 10 degrees, or I'm competing, I may or may

not survive this ordeal, and I'm probably frostbitten right now.

So as is likely obvious to you, you aren't going to get the normal weekly Q&A that I release

on Wednesdays with my podcast sidekick Rachel.

But I do have a pretty fun episode for you today.

I'm going to keep it a mystery until I'm done telling you about today's supporters and

sponsors.

But I think you'll enjoy it.

I think you'll dig it, especially if you like computers gaming, or the Warcraft stuff

like that.

But I want to tell you about today's sponsor.

So our first sponsor actually has something that I've been using quite a bit lately.

I don't know if you've ever heard of traction.

If you have attached a giant band to like a pole or something in the weight room and

done traction on your shoulder, traction on your knees, traction on your feet, incredible

way to open up a joint space and increase the amount of sonovial fluid in that joint

space.

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