Q&A: Getting Healthy Before Losing Weight, Making Intuitive Training Decisions, And Excelling As A Young Runner

About this episode

The episode discusses various questions and success stories related to health and fitness for endurance athletes.

Endurance athletes are back with an assortment of interesting questions and fabulous success stories to share! Questions and stories like: The importance of doing a bit of warm up before your micro-workouts; a young runner wins the state title honoring the Primal Endurance principles of monitoring heart rate carefully, avoiding processed food, getting tons of sleep, adding some strength training, and making intuitive decisions to manage stress and rest; the folly of counting calories instead of just focusing on natural, nutritious foods and managing one’s overall stress level; the importance of getting metabolically and hormonally healthy before trying to lose excess body fat; advice for older females to avoid chronic cardio and add sprinting; listening to your body instead of obsessing about biofeedback numbers; the rationale for prescription medication versus lifestyle change; emphasizing both Zone 2 and Zone 1 cardio. LINKS: Primal Endurance Mastery course ( FREE bag of Whey Protein Superfuel if you sign up for the full course, just email us!) PrimalEndrance.fit Brad Kearns.com Brad’s Shopping page B.rad Whey Protein Isolate Superfuel - The Best Protein on The Planet…

People in this episode

Host: Brad Kearns

Topics covered

• health
• fitness
• endurance training
• weight loss
• intuitive training
• youth athletics

Keywords

• endurance athletes
• heart rate
• processed food
• strength training
• metabolic health
• chronic cardio
• biofeedback

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Organizations: Primal Endurance, PrimalEndrance.fit, Brad Kearns.com, B.rad

Products: Whey Protein Superfuel

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