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  • Escape Chronic Cardio and Carbohydrate Dependency, and Become a Fat-Burning Beast!
  • Written by: Mark Sisson, Brad Kearns
  • Narrated by: Brad Kearns
  • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (20 ratings)

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Primal Endurance

Written by: Mark Sisson, Brad Kearns
Narrated by: Brad Kearns
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Primal Endurance shakes up the status quo and challenges the overly stressful, ineffective conventional approach to endurance training. While marathons and triathlons are wildly popular and bring much gratification and camaraderie to the participants, the majority of athletes are too slow, continually tired, and carry too much body fat respective to the time they devote to training. The prevailing "chronic cardio" approach promotes carbohydrate dependency, overly stressful lifestyle patterns, and ultimately burnout.

Mark Sisson, author of the 2009 best seller, The Primal Blueprint, and de-facto leader of the primal/paleo lifestyle movement, expertly applies primal lifestyle principles to the unique challenge of endurance training and racing. Unlike the many instant and self-anointed experts who have descended upon the endurance scene in recent years, Sisson and his co-author/business partner, Brad Kearns, boast a rich history in endurance sports. Sisson has a 2:18 marathon and fourth-place Hawaii Ironman finish to his credit, has spearheaded triathlon's global anti-doping program for the International Triathlon Union, and has coached/advised leading professional athletes, including Olympic triathlon gold and silver medalist Simon Whitfield and Tour de France cyclist Dave Zabriskie. Under Sisson's guidance, Kearns won multiple national championships in duathlon and triathlon, and rose to a number-three world triathlon ranking in 1991.

Primal Endurance applies an all-encompassing approach to endurance training that includes primal-aligned eating to escape carbohydrate dependency and enhance fat metabolism, building an aerobic base with comfortably paced workouts, strategically introducing high-intensity strength and sprint workouts, emphasizing rest, recovery, and an annual periodization, and finally cultivating an intuitive approach to training instead of the usual robotic approach of fixed weekly workout schedules.

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one of the most amazing training books ever!!

This is a must read for everyone interested in a fit lifestyle, excellent eating habits and injury free endurance training. It is well cited, organized, inspiring and really, really, REALLY works!!!!!! I will be sharing this with everyone I know. One thing to note, it WILL challenge almost everything one "knows' about training. Go through the entire book before passing judgement, please!! This book lays out one of the most well rounded and sustainable lifestyles and training approaches I have ever experienced. period. I cannot believe how much better I feel, and how much my performance has already improved.

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awesome!!

really great book.. well narrated, informative and is a eye opener...
i strongly recommend this book f343g

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Guilt Trip?

If Mark Sisson' mission is to make you feel like a piece of crap for ever eating grains, vegetable oil (like eating "toxic radiation" btw), sugar, or ever doing a HIIT class then I'd say mission accomplished.

This book will help you learn how to become a fat adapted endurance athlete without going full keto - great.

Unfortunately it takes him forever to get to the point due to the constant guilt trips about what you shouldn't be doing and why you shouldn't be doing it. He comes off preachy. I had to turn this off several times on the drives to work and skip much of the content to get to the good stuff.

There's nothing worse than someone saying, not only is my way the right way, but you're a moron to try anything otherwise.

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