#96: Elle Russ and Brad Kearns

Published: Dec. 1, 2015, 8:45 p.m.

Today\u2019s episode, hosted by Elle Russ, is chock full of reflections, history, and tips based on host Brad Kearn\u2019s earlier career as an endurance athlete gone primal. The perils of chronic cardio are now a well-known fact within most primal circles these days, but there was a time when pretty much every top performing athlete was on the chronic cardio bandwagon. And it wasn\u2019t until some of its biggest adherents (people like Mark Sisson and Brad Kearns) started scratching their heads after getting burned out by the process that a newer, healthier approach to endurance training has started to take form. But that took a lot of reevaluation of the fundamental concepts, motivations, and assumptions of endurance training as a practice.

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So tune into today\u2019s show as Brad discusses the ins and outs of the endurance community, performing as a triathlete, meeting Mark Sisson for the first time, the health risks of running your body ragged through endurance training, and the new ways endurance sports can be done in a way that\u2019s more in line with promoting health instead of injury.

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