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The Ready State Podcast

Jen Widerstrom: Carb Cycling

The Ready State Podcast

Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9623 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jen Widerstrom is a world-renowned fitness trainer, published author, and Fitness Director of SHAPE Magazine. She is well known for her work as a trainer on the American television series The Biggest Loser. Before that, she appeared on American Gladiators, as the female gladiator Phoenix. Jen most recently founded GetUP, a CBD supplement company, continues to coach athletes of all stripes including leading monthly carb cycling challenges through her site Widerstrong.com. Juliet has personally found great success zipping up her diet with carb cycling. Jen joins us to talk nutrition, movement, and the important role both play health, wellness, and self image.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett.

0:06.8

And I'm Juliette.

0:08.3

And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast.

0:15.9

This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Element.

0:21.3

That's L-M-N-T.

0:23.5

We first discovered the joys of Element at the Spartan World Championship race.

0:28.6

It's basically a little packet full of some tasty, tasty salts.

0:33.5

And one of the things I know for a fact is that I sometimes struggle to get enough electrolytes,

0:39.9

given my size, my service to volume ratio, right?

0:43.0

I'm outputting.

0:43.9

Your attack on the sun?

0:44.6

Yes, right.

0:45.6

And what we know is if you're just drinking water, you're missing out on that fact that you can't absorb the water.

0:50.9

And the better you eat, the less likely you are to have a bunch of added

0:56.1

salt in your diet. So you've got to add the salt back. Well, and most importantly, man,

1:01.4

this stuff tastes so good. And I think Kelly forgot to mention that it's also sugar-free.

1:06.1

So unlike a lot of electrolyte supplements out there that are so sweet that they're like

1:11.6

disgustingly sweet. This is just a lovely, amazing balance of sweet and salty. I got to tell you,

1:17.4

personally, this is a big joke in the family, that I don't drink water. He only drinks

1:23.1

coffee. That's really my dream. If it's carbonated, I drink it. He does say that there's water and coffee. There is water and coffee. But what I found is maybe sometimes I just want to be entertained in my mouth, Jay. And that really comes down to that I tend to drink a lot more water when I add the element. And mental clarity is better. The anecdotal evidence around keto flu is sometimes it's loss of salts. People are

1:45.9

feeling terrible because they're just not getting enough salt. They're kicked out all these

1:49.1

carbohydrates. We have a lot of friends in our family in our neighborhood who are, you know,

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