In this podcast episode, electrical stimulation devices, amino acid supplements, high protein

diets, food allergies, barefoot running, a movie called Fat Head, creatine, cramping,

and much more.

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Hey, podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield.

I got to tell you, I'm a little sore right now.

I actually just this day, today, earlier at noon, I was playing basketball and then I went

to the gym after I finished playing about an hour of basketball and I did those little

machines at the gym that a personal trainer I used to know called birthing machines

because you basically sit in them and you kind of put your thighs on these pads and

contract your legs and your thighs go in and then you move to another one and you sit

down in that and you kind of swing your hips out and open your legs and just back and forth.

I did back and forth between those things about five times and so I'm not only sore from

basketball because I just got into my triathlon offseason and that's something I've ever

really been doing much up and then I also, I just wanted to try out those things and see how

they actually felt when I went through a few sets on them and I do have a little bit of a

strong opinion that they're probably not all that great for sports performance as a matter of

fact I know they aren't and they don't burn that many calories and they really don't do a lot

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