Mark Sisson Primal Endurance Workout Routine

In this video Taren explains Mark Sisson's workout recommendations and does a Primal Endurance review. The Primal Endurance book is a system for training for endurance events like triathlons, running races, cycling events, etc.

[jameshall]

There is race effort sessions detailed in primal endurance e.g. 3 x 6 mins at roughly anaerobic threshold with 30 seconds rest

[ingos]

i have schizophrenia; i do it for health and a little performance; in my experience the polarized approach works best for me because if i do a lot of tempo training (and 14% is already a lot for me) i get stressed, i get nervous, i get aggressive, i have bad sleep, i am tired the days afterwards and i have low energy at work; staying 85% of my time in the low zone, with 20-40% even in Zone1 i don't have those problems; i am relaxed, i sleep well, i don't get stressed easily, i have a good mood!, i am more socia and also my cognitive function is a lot better ... it helps a lot with my illness .. i think you have to be build for a lot of tempo training, you have to be one that recovers fast

[King-pizx]

Taren you cant say that All of us got into the Sport for health reasons. I for Exemple just wanted to beat my mates from class. I like beating people in races thats my main motivation

[esthernijkamp-schaars]

Primal Endurance is not a pro-keto book, but about real and nutritious foods whilst minding the carbs (to about 150gr). They discuss Keto as a fair temporarily strategy to get to race weight, and discuss that - as opposed to what Taren says here - nothing is wrong with being in ketosis in itself. I'm a bit surprised about that statement on how being in ketosis adds stress to the body by Taren. From the book of Volek and Phinney I actually understood this response of the body deals with low carb situations in an effective way (making ketones), as opposed to having too less carbs to properly function, and no ketones to compensate for it. According to them, and many, it actually reduces oxidative stress on a cellular level (e.g. from training).

I'm on a ketogenic diet for over a year, initially to loose weight. Finding out my headache attacks almost disappeared because of the diet, as well as perceiving a much greater general fitness and improved body composition keep me on it, not necessarily race performance. However, I do take triathlon very serious and am also result minded. Now I am seriously struggling with fueling the high intensity 2hr+ rides as well as Olympic/70.3 race days. I would love to know how to properly approach this, whilst maintaining a keto lifestyle in general, for my own reasons.

Perhaps anyone here who can help?
I tend to run into the pro - con Keto discussion all the time, while I'm just trying to work with the fact that that basically is my lifestyle, while I still want to maximize my performance in triathlon and don't mind to bump out of ketosis for particular workouts if that's what it takes.

[kahlis]

Why do I remember Primal Endurance book recomending a "sweetspot" of 150g carbs a day instead of keto??

[joeyhinton]

So Mark Allen and Phil Maffetone had it all wrong???? Sorry Taren you really don’t know MAF.