Phil Maffetone on Why We Should Run Slow

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

One of the most frequently asked questions Jason and I get at Run Your BQ is our opinion of the Maffetone Method. You may have heard of Dr. Phil Maffetone and his unusual training philosophy, which put simply suggests that slow running will make you faster. It sounds a little out there, but since first reading one of his books a few years ago, I've heard from complete beginners and elite runners who have all had success training with the Maffetone Method. Even Rich Roll used it while training for the Epic 5. So in this most recent training cycle, which I hope will lead to a marathon comeback, that I've integrated many of these ideas into my own training. Today I sit down with Phil Maffetone to discuss his approach to training, and learn more about why you need to run slow in order to run fast.

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0:34.0	Welcome back to another episode of No Meat Athlete Radio.
0:36.4	I'm Matt Frazier joined by Doug Hay and we've got an interview today.
0:40.5	That's right.
0:41.5	This is going to be a fun one because it's someone who both of us have read and like his strategy
0:48.1	Yes, and you're actually using it right now to in your marathon training. I sort of am, not, I wouldn't say I'm doing it in any sort of formal way,
0:56.8	but just the general principle.
0:58.2	The guess, of course, is Dr. Phil Mathitone,
1:00.7	who people have probably heard of a lot.
1:02.1	I get a lot of questions about him.
1:04.0	Jason and I in our site run your BQ get a lot of people asking questions.
1:07.0	People just saying, what do you think of the Mapatone method?
1:10.0	And Jason's not a huge fan. I found it to be really useful for me in just in kind of an informal way like I said like it's just when I begin a training cycle
1:21.5	rather than jumping right into an 18-B training program, first proceeding that with a good few
1:26.3	months of period of just doing really slow running.
1:30.2	And that of course is what Mapetonin teaches.
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