Five Minute Answers: Palm Cooling, Pre-Workout Honey, & ATP Supplements
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We're answering your fitness-focused questions about effective strategies for improving performance through various methods, including palm cooling, pre-workout nutrition, ATP supplements, and more!
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ABOUT THE SHOW
The Consistency Project aims to simplify nutrition, health, and well-being by breaking down the concepts and actions we can all take to live fuller, more functional lives.
ABOUT US
📍 EC Synkowski is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS), a Licensed-Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach (CF-L4). She's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition and the creator of the #800gChallenge®. Find her on social media.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, kid's book writer, and podcaster. Find him on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Consistency Project podcast. I'm Patrick Cummings here, as always, |
| 0:04.9 | with EC Sankowski. Every week, we aim to simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, |
| 0:09.8 | health and fitness. We thank you for joining us. Hello, and how are you, EC? |
| 0:14.6 | Great. How are you doing? I'm good. I am here in the snow. I don't know if you got snow |
| 0:19.9 | where you are, but we've had snow for last couple days, so it's a winter wonderland here in the snow. I don't know if you got snow where you are, but we've had snow for the last couple days. |
| 0:21.8 | So it's a winter wonderland here in Maine. So what better excuse then to answer some listener questions? That's what we've got today. Cool. We haven't done this for a little bit. We're doing a quick bite. We're actually going to do a quick bite this week. We're going to do another one next week because, as I said, we haven't done this for a while. |
| 0:36.5 | So you got a lot of questions in the queue that you wanted to get to. |
| 0:39.8 | This time around, we're going to do another one next week because, as I said, we haven't done this for a while. So you got a lot of questions in the queue that you wanted to get to. This time around, we're |
| 0:40.7 | going to talk about specifically training and exercise focused questions. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:46.8 | All right. So instead of our usual five, we got six because we're going to sneak one in. |
| 0:51.7 | Before we do, a quick reminder, if you're not yet into the Three Pillars Method app, |
| 0:57.1 | we remind you one more time, three pillars method.com to get all of the goodness in your hands. |
| 1:03.1 | E.C., you got some kind of new stuff coming into the app soon or for folks who are in the app already, |
| 1:08.6 | you want to tell them about it? Yeah, I think this month we're going to do a little bit of bonus content. |
| 1:12.6 | You know, one of the ideas I've been kicking around a lot is how the basics really are kind of elite and cutting-edge nutrition. |
| 1:19.6 | And so I saw this study recently that was like a review of 80 controlled trials related to gut health. |
| 1:26.6 | And so, you know, gut health is such a hot topic, |
| 1:29.2 | and there's all these wellness trends around it, |
| 1:31.4 | and how does the Three Pillars Method fit into that and all of that stuff. |
| 1:36.6 | So, yeah, I'm going to do kind of a deep dive on that breakdown |
| 1:38.9 | for current subscribers this month. |
| 1:42.1 | So be on the lookout in your email if you were one of those people |
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