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How Can the Science Help You Train and Race Better? Part 1

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Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Recently, Travis Macy underwent a battery of tests at eNRG Performance in Boulder, Colorado.  We were intrigued to see what these tests were, why he decided to undergo them, and how he can use this information to change his diet and training to be an efficient endurance runner.  Dina Griffin, MS, RDN, CSSD, METS II & Leadville 100 finisher, joins the conversation to help us understand.

Here are the tests that they did:

  • Metabolic Efficiency (ME) testing
  • Lactate Threshold (LT) testing
  • Sweat Sodium Concentration Testing
  • VO2max Testing

In this podcast, we dive into the ME testing.  We will cover the other tests in upcoming podcast episodes.

If you have more question please email Dina at dina@enrgperformance.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

In this podcast coming up today, we're going to be talking with Dina Griffin with energy

0:09.2

performance labs and Travis Mason, we're going to talk about metabolic efficiency, trying

0:15.0

to train your body to be more fat adapted, but Travis taught us something very, very interesting

0:21.8

and very good that even though if we're fat adapted, we do need to have some of those

0:26.5

quick burning carbohydrates in our diet and he has told us as we've known for many years

0:34.3

now that he prefers tailwind nutrition.

0:36.4

And it needs to be the right kind of carbohydrate, Scott, and that's what tailwind nutrition

0:41.2

brings, the right kind.

0:42.8

They taste good and they work.

0:44.9

You can be the most efficient fat burner out there and you're still going to be burning

0:50.0

some amount of carbohydrates.

0:53.9

So why not replace those carbohydrates with good carbohydrates, you're not going to

0:57.7

cause gut bombs and that's what tailwind nutrition delivers.

1:01.4

And another thing we learned on this very podcast is there are times that you're in a slump,

1:06.5

you're down low, you're in that dark spot and you need to pull yourself out with some

1:12.2

carbohydrates and what better than tailwind nutrition.

1:16.0

And that's when Don Freeman takes a tablespoon and just throws it back into the back of his

1:20.5

throat.

1:21.5

You would too if it tasted as good as tailwind does.

1:25.9

Go to tailwindnutrition.com and take the tailwind nutrition challenge, which we haven't

1:32.1

talked about for a while, take that, look that up.

1:34.4

It's a really good deal.

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