The Endurance Diet with Matt Fitzgerald | EP#153

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Author, coach, and nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald wrote the book "The Endurance Diet" after doing extensive investigations into what elite endurance athletes all over the world really eat. He discovered that even though their plates look very different, there are 5 core habit that they all adhere to to perform at the top of their game in performance, recovery, and overall health. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -The 5 Core Habits: eat everything, eat quality, eat carb-centered, eat enough, eat individually -Does elite athletes' eating habits really apply to normal age-group triathletes? -More advanced concepts beyond the 5 core habits: nutrition periodisation, fuelling workouts, fasted workouts/training low, supplements -Matt's thoughts on "trendy diets" SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts153/ THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free! Stac - The Stac Zero is the world's quietest bike trainer. No noise and no tire wear, since it doesn't even touch the tire! It is also very portable and affordable. Even more so when using the discount code TTS20 for 20% off when you buy your Stac bike trainer (any of the models). LINKS AND RESOURCES: Collection page with all previous nutrition-related episodes on That Triathlon Show The Endurance Diet - Matt's book on the 5 core nutrition habits of the world's greatest endurance athletes The DQS (Diet Quality Score) app 80/20 Endurance - Matt's and David Warden's website Matt's personal website Matt's Twitter RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	The title of my book, it sounds like a trendy diet, right?
0:02.7	The Endurance Diet, you know, I sort of came up with that title with a wink
0:08.3	because it's really just a collection of habits.
0:10.8	It's not something I came up with.
0:13.0	It's just something that evolved naturally in the real world.
0:18.9	That Trefo, 153.
0:34.4	Hey, what's up everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show.
0:40.6	The podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.
0:44.4	I'm your host Michael and on today's episode I'm back with Matt Fitzgerald, but this time
0:49.9	to talk about his book, The Endurance Diet and not just the book, of course, but the actual
0:55.6	concept behind this nutritional approach. It's not really a diet, but actually a set of
1:02.7	five core habits or principles that elite endurance athletes all over the world seem to follow.
1:09.6	It's a bit like how, you know, with the 80-20
1:13.1	training distribution that we talked about in last episode, it arose from investigating how elite
1:20.3	endurance athletes really train and how they distribute their intensity. And the endurance diet,
1:26.0	it's the same sort of research. Matt did a lot of
1:28.8	investigations, both formal and informal, to discover the habits, nutritional approaches of the top
1:35.5	endurance athletes of the world across disciplines, across continents. And he put together all of the
1:42.2	findings in this book called The Endurance Diet.
1:45.4	And the great thing is that as amateurs can use this very safe approach and should use this very safe approach if we want to optimize our endurance performance.
1:56.0	And the Endurance Diet, this book, I read it a couple of years ago, I think.
2:00.7	And this has been
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