#797 – Critical Thinking About Your Health And Fueling

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Today, we give you a little food for thought on day to day nutrition and race fueling. We sort of explore the traditional triathlon thinking process and ask if you’re really doing what’s right for your long term health. We get into how to think about what’s working and how to recognize what’s not. On some levels it’s complex, but it can be really simple if you start putting yourself first in the equation. We talk about fitness over nutrition and how to build your body for long distance triathlon. We get into glycogen, fat oxidation, and ask if training your gut is really a logical approach. We look at bonking, periodizing carbs and ask you to think about how you’re fueling and if it really makes sense. The modern diet is filled with synthetic ingredients and proving to be a failure. Are we as performance athletes falling into the same trap?

Topics:

• Critically thinking about your nutrition day to day
• Do you believe something is wonky?
• Nutrition for triathlon
• Not just a triathlete, but a human
• The highest performers are willing to try anything to win
• The difference between an answer and an option
• Fueling for training and racing
• Most things are processed
• Enormous consumption of carbs and sugars
• Inflammation is at the root of most problems
• Glycogen depleted state for pros
• Fat oxidation rates
• Train your gut??
• Fitness over nutrition
• Can you really burn all the calories?
• Are we searching for the wrong answers?
• Sugar crashes
• Training your body to crave more junk
• Bonking - just as much mental?
• Working hard all the time
• Periodizing carbohydrates
• Fat burning machines
• How to be much better on race day
• Heart palpitations
• Telling your body how to work
• Can you explain why you take in the calories you do?
• $8 a Gell to become more inefficient
• Popping pills
• Worshiping at the alter of your nutrition brand

Mike Tarrolly - [e-mail]

Robbie Bruce - [e-mail]