How do you avoid over training, breaking down and burning out from the inside out if you are training for an endurance race or big event?

How do you train for performance gains and longevity?

As a Kion Coach with Ben Greenfield, we talked a lot about using a hybrid training approach to avoid being the broken athlete.

As a FDN Practitioner, we talk a lot about helping improve performance and longevity by identifying external stressors and performing functional lab testing to discover the HIDDEN internal stressors.

Chronic cardio or over training will break you down... unless you balance out the break down with the build up.

The Goldilocks Effect... not too little, not too much...just that right amount to generate the training benefits to improve performance and longevity.

Catabolic vs. Anabolic Training

Cortisol vs. DHEA hormone balance

PNS vs. CNS 

Acute stress vs. Chronic stress

Train for to improve longevity and performance by

1. Endurance 

2. Speed and Power

3. Strength

4. Balance

5. Mobility 

6. Metabolic Health (Mitochondria)

Also I finish up the podcast chat about training considerations for women with their menstrual cycles- different phases, different carb/fat/protein ratio and different training focuses.

Listen to your body as it has it's own innate intelligence and it will send you RED FLAGS when you need to stop, pause and reset.

Remember what the definition of insanity is... doing the same thing over and over again.  Are you going to ever expect different results by doing the same workout every day, week and cycle? 

Mix it up!  

More is not better.

Sometimes less is more.  

Listen to your body and learn from your experiences.

Life is Not a Race... It is a Journey with The WHOLESTIC Method.

Debbie Potts 

www.debbiepotts.net