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The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Follow-Up: Dave MacLeod — Lessons From Recent Diet Experiments, the 9a+ Goal, and Getting Stronger After Age 40 (Teaser)

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0589 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This full episode is available for Patrons right now! Dave MacLeod is back on the podcast! We talked about lessons from his latest diet experiments, his motivation for only eating Mcdonald's patties for two months, the effects that nutrition has on mental health, common nutrient deficiencies, LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular risk, his favorite tea, what he learned from doing the Lattice Assessment with Ollie Torr, his goal to climb 9a+ sport, why he no longer travels abroad, setting finger strength PRs after 18+ years of hangboarding, and much more! Become a Patron to get access to the full episode! And support the podcast! *The full version is 2:13:42. patreon.com/thenuggetclimbing Dave’s Other Episodes: EP 56: Dave MacLeod (Part 1) EP 57: Dave MacLeod (Part 2)

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0:00.0

Hello, can you hear me?

0:03.9

There we go.

0:04.5

Hi, Dave.

0:05.1

Yeah, I can hear you.

0:07.6

You can hear me okay?

0:09.6

Yes, it can.

0:11.3

Nice.

0:14.3

How are you guys going?

0:16.1

I'm doing great.

0:17.5

I'm, yeah, it's morning here.

0:19.7

It's 10 o'clock in the morning.

0:22.0

I'm sure it's evening for you. Yeah. So I'm, yeah, it's morning here. It's 10 o'clock in the morning. I'm sure it's evening for you.

0:28.4

Yeah. So I'm just, uh, just kind of settling into my day. I actually just ate steak for breakfast, so felt appropriate before talking to you. I'm kind of trying a autoimmune paleo sort of thing.

0:35.6

Oh, really? Right now. So steak for breakfast, steak and coffee. Yeah. Very good. Very good. How are you? Yeah, I'm great. Yeah, really good. I'm on a trip away from home at the moment. And the primary purpose of my trip is actually to work on a book I'm writing, but I'm also doing about climbing as well. So, yeah, it's quite nice. Been here for a few days. Oh, this is exciting. I have to ask, what is your book about? Are you able to talk about it yet? Are you still keeping it a little bit? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I'm just writing about my own climbing, really. Nice.

1:11.8

Yeah, so I guess it's sort of autobiographical in a sense and that I am just talking about

1:17.8

my own experiences through my history of climbing, but as I try to do, and a lot of stuff I make,

1:23.7

I'm trying to get a, like, package up and get across the interesting lessons I've learned

1:29.7

along the way in all sorts of aspects of it. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Is that part of your process?

1:36.9

You just have to disappear and go off and hide in the woods or hide in the mountains and

1:42.3

kind of immerse yourself in the writing process?

1:46.1

I do find that helps, yeah, to focus. At home, I mean, I guess a lot of people at home,

1:53.7

especially if they have big family, there's a lot of stuff going on and it's hard to focus.

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