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- I need rest.
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I don't want to worry you, but.
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Morning.
Morning trainiacs, it's Friday AKA
major super long swim day on other days.
Today, it's gonna be a little bit different.
We gotta regroup, we gotta rest up,
we gotta be mentally prepared because we are now
five weeks away from the super duper long swim
and I don't think I got the jam
this week to go hard to be prepared.
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Oh I successfully defeated the purpose of most of that set
with these little babies.
As much fun as it is to kick with fins,
there's almost no point to kicking with fins.
As close to no point as you can possibly get.
- Right in on it, there we.
- Yeah, these babies will get you motoring,
but they're not gonna work your core and your legs
and that kicking motion nearly as much as you needed to
to improve your kick, so I threw these in there
just because today is like a nothing day.
I need rest, so rest.
Alright, we're getting some super slow-mo dives.
Photographer Taren, that's the price you pay
for people letting you film them in their swim trunks.
It's a fair trade.
- Ready, go.
(water splashing)
(grunting)
- That was an interesting little tidbit.
Alicia there is racing Elite ITU.
See really f'ing fast pros.
And what she said is that coming from a swimming background
you just stand on the block stationary
and then boom you go when the start gun goes,
but in ITU triathlon, you gotta step into your box
and then go, so it's like, you come from a yard back,
step forward, wrap your toes around the edge of the dock,
and then push forward and she's not used to that.
- I don't know, if you ask me she looked pretty solid
coming off of that brain fart, brain fart, brain fart,
brain fart, bulkhead, God, office and coffee.
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- Water day today.
- Sometimes it's nice to start a day
without feeling like you've been put through a meat grinder.
- I feel fresh.
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OK, trainiacs, we actually have fairly serious,
looks like I'm not going to be able to go and do
the second swim that I was planning later tonight.
I'll explain, so a few weeks ago I did a podcast
with Endurance Nation and one of the people
that is in charge of running the Endurance Nation podcast
is involved with a company called InsideTracker
which does blood testing and it's blood testing
that gives you a lot of markers that help you
become a better athlete and it doesn't just give you
all these markers in the results, it gives you a suggestion
of what you can do with that and also
a potential cause of what you're doing in your training
or your day-to-day lifestyle that is causing that marker
to be what it is.
As I mentioned this morning, I'm feeling very sluggish.
I've kinda been hinting at that a fair bit
for the last few weeks, and I thought it was just a function
of the long swim training popping up, but here today,
my blood results came in from InsideTracker
and we gotta talk.
FYI, this is not a sponsored post.
I actually paid for this blood test.
Number one, first and foremost my vitamin D dangerously low.
Not super surprising because I live in Winnipeg
and my skin did not see sun and absorb any vitamin D
for five months.
It says I need to consult my doctor about my below normal
level of vitamin D taking potentially a 5,000 IU,
I forget what that means, supplement of vitamin D3 daily
to increase my vitamin D.
- Oh man.
- I should eat fatty fish at least twice a week
to increase levels, see, I do have a bit of a concern
about that, number one, because we eat mostly vegan.
Number two, I do not trust fish.
Our oceans in this world are some of the most polluted
oceans in this world.
Some of these results say that some of the things
that I'm lacking would affect my memory.
But here's where it starts getting fairly worrisome.
My testosterone is also at risk.
Now before you start making jokes here,
allow me to say that, might be too much info,
but my sex hormones binding globulin SHBG
is extremely high.
Now again, before you start making jokes,
what happens is that because that hormone is so high
it ends up binding to testosterone and basically neither one
can do what they're supposed to do.
I'm not gonna recover nearly as quickly,
my memory is going to be lower,
I might have that little bit of, know what I was saying,
that people are telling people that they're amazed
that I still have a little bit of belly fat
and I've got love handles, that might
have something to do with it.
My strength is going to be lower,
my body isn't gonna be able to use oxygen
during exercise nearly as well as it could,
so athletic performance is going to suffer.
Lean muscle mass is going to be lower.
Oh man, it says that my breasts might be sore.
They're not sore.
Glucose levels a little bit high.
Liver enzymes are also a little bit high.
Iron is a little bit low.
Ferritin, a protein that stores iron a little bit low.
Vitamin B12 a little bit low.
Here's where it gets really good.
Inflammation bang on.
C-reactive protein, bang on.
And you know that you can't have
good enough C-reactive protein.
My lipids, bang on.
Cholesterol, little bit high.
Cortisol, my stress hormone, it's low, we good.
Sodium good, potassium, a little bit high.
Most of the electrolytes that I use
is just like this old electrolyte tub
that I got a massive amount of
and it's very, very high in potassium.
Apparently that, (blows raspberry) gotta go.
Magnesium good, calcium, them bones, they good.
Folate for cell and production repair, ay.
OK, so here's the thing, I was supposed to go and swim
later today, not gonna happen.
I'm talking to Pat about if it's smart
that I should maybe take several days off
before we get into this next five-week
absolutely blow your brains out cycle
before the long swim actually happens,
because that's still happening.
But I've got some figuring to do
about how we deal with this
and what specifically I am lacking.
All that said, InsideTracker, thanks.
Mariah, you hooked me up at the exact right time
because I've been bordering on over-trained
for quite a few weeks and now I think I might know why.
It's not those 12K swims entirely.
Granted, they're not helping.
So trainiacs, don't be worried about me.
We got it all under control.
I think I just need a fair bit of rest
and a little bit of thinkin'.
That said, it's home time, it's a long weekend.
Who else is excited?
See you tomorrow trainiacs.