Today I chat with fellow podcaster Brad Kearns of the Primal Endurance Podcast - and fan of Dr. Phil Maffetone's MAF heart rate formula - the Max Aerobic Function - for endurance training.

Find Brad's podcast here

I wanted to chat with Brad about what he has learned from his own training as well as all of his "Q & A" podcast episodes.  We learn from working with clients and learning from listeners- so I thought I would ask Brad why he changed his own personal workout sessions to follow the MAF heart rate ranges as well as the Primal Endurance way to train.

Read the White Paper on the MAF way to training here 

Brad Kearns, 51, of Auburn, California is noted speaker, author and coach in the health & fitness world for over two decades. During his nine-year career as a triathlete, he was one of the world's top ranked professionals, amassing 30 wins worldwide on the pro circuit. Career highlights include a remarkable streak of seven victories in a row, a world duathlon series championship, and two national triathlon championships and a #3 world ranking in 1991. Brad is the last American professional male in to place in the top-5 in the ITU World Championships (1992) and still holds the Hawaii Ironman 24&under age division American record at 8:57 (1989).

Brad currently works with health & fitness expert Mark Sisson on a comprehensive lifestyle movement called the Primal Blueprint. He is the President of Primal Blueprint Publishing, helped develop the Primal Health Coach certification program, has delivered nearly 30 Primal lifestyle seminars across the USA, and organized and presented at nine "PrimalCon" health and fitness retreats around the world from 2010-2014. He and Mark authored the 2016 release, Primal Endurance, a comprehensive guidebook on how to escape the carbohydrate-dependent, overly stressful conventional approach to training in favor of a healthier, stress-balanced, fat-adapted primal approach. -

Brad’s Breakthrough Triathlon Training (2006) offers a healthy, balanced approach to triathlon peak performance. His How Lance Does It (2007) and How Tiger Does It (2008) books detail the champion attitude and behavior qualities of the Tour de France legend and golfing great, helping you apply their methods in pursuit of your own peak performance goals.

Brad is the Founder and Executive Director of a non-profit organization promoting cardiovascular fitness for kids called Running School. The organization conducts events on campus at partner schools in Northern California and Nevada, tracking students' aerobic conditioning results against national standards and helping kids make healthy lifestyle choices and develop positive attitudes towards competition. Running School kids have achieved remarkable results in the organization's short history, developing fitness levels far exceeding the statewide standard - a hands-on, grass roots success story in the battle against childhood obesity.

Brad's unique employee wellness program (1999-2002) at Interwoven, Inc., a Silicon Valley software company, was lauded in leading publications like the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Investors Business Daily and on television in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as syndicated Asian television.

Brad delivers motivational talks and seminars to schoolchildren, corporate groups and community groups, detailing his favorite theme of pursuing peak performance with a pure motivation and a healthy, balanced approach.

-http://bradkearns.com/biography.shtml