Maffetone is quite some character; as well as being a world-renowned sports physiologist he has also forged himself a career as a singer/songwriter and is. There are no training plans, but the heart of the method is the famous 180 MAF (Maximum Aerobic Function) formula which can be applied almost. Feb 12, 2015. Are you ready for a monster discussion on base training, the Maffetone Method, and more training geekery? Base Training Running. I definitely am – and this article is a beast – so grab a cup of coffee and settle in for a wild ride. Enterprise Architect 10 Full Serial Number. Today we're going to cover several questions and topics: What is “base”. The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness: The Philip Maffetone. Kindle Edition. Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast! Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate Mark Sisson.

Tony Konvalin who is a fellow Dr Phil Maffetone Enthusiast and also host of the fun and informative asked some questions about how I apply Phil’s methods over the years. Here it goes. Look forward to presenting alongside Phil this weekend at Healthy Running San Luis Obispo.

You can still come! org I was proud to have Phil last year. Q: What is your regular diet? Would you consider your diet LCHF or some version of it? Definitely LCHF and flux between 50-100g of healthy carbs/ day (sometimes less). May have an occasional day over this but rarely.

If you download the “real lists” on I am pretty much green list with occasional dips into the orange for good quality fruit and legumes. Bread and grains almost 100% gone other than a rare treat of thin crust homemade pizza where the wonderful toppings buffer the little bit of homemade crust (which is loaded with olive oil). Q: What are your thoughts on MET (Metabolic Efficiency Training) and being fat adapted? Base Wars Gamenode Download Firefox. Do you think this works for shorter distances as well as long? The key is about restoring your health, and then your workouts will go well either high intense or endurance. So if you are insulin resistant (IR)/carb intolerant you need to be fat adapted for your health.

Spells it out. I have some good friends crushing their Crossfit workouts once they figured out they were IR. Q: How do you fuel your training runs & races? What are your thoughts on fasted runs? For training it’s pretty much all fasted.

I going for long morning run I get up and have good coffee then go. I’m never hungry or feel depleted during long runs anymore. For long races where performance (not adaptation) is the goal I have a low carb cocktail of,, and a packet of.

If I can get it on the course I will use UCAN Hydrate (zero cal electrolyte) and Superstarch and a VESPA every couple hours. I think for fat adapted athletes there may be some benefit to a little exogenous ketone salt before the race. Not much science yet on this and like every strategy we are all individuals who need individual self-assessments in training and racing Q: What are your thoughts on Carbohydrate Intolerance/Insulin Resistance? Do you think this is pretty regular occurrence in the general public or a person by person thing to figure out? Also, how much of this do you think comes from how our food, in general, has been modified or processed? I see this as the root cause of patients who have obesity, pre DM/DM, Fatty Liver, High Blood Pressure, Coronary Disease, and metabolic syndrome. This is about 70% of the US population now.

Gerald Reaven who has published 800 papers should have won the Nobel Prize with the discovery of what he termed “Syndrome X” over ten years ago. He outlined the cascade of nefarious pathways ignited by IR and hyperinsulinemia. The foods that accelerate the slow steady march to IR are the sugar sweetened beverages (incl. Juice), all process grains, added sugar products, and refined vegetable oils. Tim Noakes explains it well in “The Real Meal Revolution” as well Gary Taubes in his 3 best selling books “Good Calories, Bad Calories”, “Why We Get Fat”, and “The Case Against Sugar”. “New Atkins for a New You” by Drs Phinney, Volek, and Westman is another must read and was the book that sent Dr.