Dr. Phil Maffetone is back for an instant classic on how you can maximize your fitness gains and longterm health simultaneously: MAF Method refresher: It’s not just about the 180 Formula when you pursue MAF, it’s a holistic method for overall improved health, wellness and fitness. There are 8 steps to mastering MAF, which we […]

Dr. Phil Maffetone is back for an instant classic on how you can maximize your fitness gains and longterm health simultaneously: MAF Method refresher: It’s not just about the 180 Formula when you pursue MAF, it’s a holistic method for overall improved health, wellness and fitness. There are 8 steps to mastering MAF, which we […]

On this episode of Ask the Coaches: Reasons for seemingly getting slower (or not progressing) despite several years of training? Taking into account immunity (how often are you getting sick?), stress levels and mindset in gauging your fitness progress or lack thereof. Defining speedwork and aerobic sessions – make sure you’re not training too hard […]

On this episode of Ask the Coaches: Reasons for seemingly getting slower (or not progressing) despite several years of training? Taking into account immunity (how often are you getting sick?), stress levels and mindset in gauging your fitness progress or lack thereof. Defining speedwork and aerobic sessions – make sure you’re not training too hard […]

Anna Vocino is an actress, standup comedian and co-host on America’s Angriest Trainer Podcast with Vinnie Tortorich. She has a fabulous cookbook called Eat Happy, with gluten-free, grain-free and low-carb recipes, which was largely inspired by the diet changes she made after being diagnosed with Celiac Disease. On this show we discuss: Anna’s story of […]

Anna Vocino is an actress, standup comedian and co-host on America’s Angriest Trainer Podcast with Vinnie Tortorich. She has a fabulous cookbook called Eat Happy, with gluten-free, grain-free and low-carb recipes, which was largely inspired by the diet changes she made after being diagnosed with Celiac Disease.

On this show we discuss:

* Anna’s story of finding out she had celiac disease and how it changed her life and how she ate.

* Taking a more functional approach to her condition and making diet changes to get her health back.

* Transitioning to gluten-free.

* Making gluten-free healthy not just another processed-food junk diet.

* It’s not just gluten, but dairy that is a big offender in athletes and those with autoimmune conditions.

* Dairy-free cheese options.

* Vinnie’s Fitness Confidential book.

* When Anna hooked up with Vinnie on the podcast she was inspired to go a step further and adopt a “no sugar no grains” (NSNG) diet, and discusses how this helped her further, especially in managing autoimmune flareups.

* Making healthy, clean eating enjoyable for the whole family.

* The recipes in Eat Happy are a great resource for athletes looking to clean up their diets or those who have gut issues like you.

* The inspiration to write a cookbook and why it’s no easy feat.

* Including desserts with low amounts of natural sugars – moderation!

* Real sugars vs sugar substitutes.

* And much more!

On this episode of Ask The Coaches: We’ve recently had many general questions on what to do in offseason; here are links to shows where we’re talked about offseason structure, please start there. If you have a more specific offseason question that we didn’t address yet, then send it to us! ATC 244: Offseason Planning […]

Dr. Tommy Wood is back on the show for another edition of Ask the Doctor, Tommy’s sixth time as our resident doc. You can find Tommy over at NourishBalanceThrive, and be sure to check out their Elite Performance Analysis quiz. On this show, we catch up with Tommy and he tackles the following listener questions: […]

Dr. Tommy Wood is back on the show for another edition of Ask the Doctor, Tommy’s sixth time as our resident doc. You can find Tommy over at NourishBalanceThrive, and be sure to check out their Elite Performance Analysis quiz. On this show, we catch up with Tommy and he tackles the following listener questions:

Tommy’s published Letter to the Editor in the Strength & Conditioning Journal, written in response to a point-counterpoint article:

A Case for and Against a Ketogenic Diets in Athletes

Point: Matthew Kavalek and Ryan Gannon

Counterpoint: Mike T. Nelson

Both sides made great points, but Tommy had some extra thoughts!

Point:

“the beneficial effects of a KD on aerobic performance are fairly well established”

Wish that were true, but isn’t yet

Probably due to the nature of the studies

Louise Burke

Race walkers

Ketone ester in cyclists

Recent Caryn Zinn study

5 cyclists on keto for 10 weeks

All of them lost weight

Peak power decreased

All of them saw worse time to exhaustion

But one had an increase in VO2Max

Counterpoint:

Metabolic flexibility is important

Risk of “losing metabolic machinery”

This is only really true if you look at PDH

The rest of glycolysis is working just fine (FASTER study)

Extra pyruvate either via PC to OA

Or converted to lactate (Cori cycle)

If wanting to boost PDH and maintain metabolic flexibility on keto, do HIIT

Remember:

For performance, some carbs are likely to always be important

Keto for the sake of keto doesn’t make much sense from a performance standpoint

Keto athletes still eat carbs!

 

Questions:

Ironman athlete, 50-year-old female, with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) – LDL’s been high since 20s, on medications (Lipitor, Crestor), being advised a low-fat diet, training for Kona, having adverse effects from meds – what to do!??

* Everything MUST be discussed with a doctor/cardiologist

* FH is a result of mutations that reduce the expression or function of LDL-R

Reduces uptake of LDL into the liver

Increased LDL levels

When it comes to heart disease risk, LDL-P matters much more than LDL

High LDL-P isn’t enough

Need some damage to the artery for cholesterol to accumulate

Most people have heterozygous FH

Only one receptor mutation

Increase in death from heart disease

Highest risk is in the 20s-40s

Once you reach your 60s, risk is the same

Lower cancer risk

Overall mortality rate is normal

You have to die of something!

Family tree mortality study in Holland

Mortality risk and cause of death varied widely

Lower in 19th Century

Higher in 1950s

Determined that environment was much more important than the mutation itself.

On this show: A little Kona talk. For more, catch our Kona recap podcast we recorded with Thorsten Radde hours after this year’s Ironman World Championships. The long run when training for a 50k trail run: how far? Using past marathon training as a gauge for how far your 50k long run can be. For […]