- Morning, Trainiacs.
Today is gonna be a day in the life
of Triathlon Taren eating, 2018 edition.
Let's do it.
It's still just 6:30, so we gotta be a little bit quiet
for NTK, okay?
Shh.
(exciting dance music)
Shh.
(exciting dance music)
Alright, Trainiacs.
So most mornings, I like to start off,
very first thing, I get up and I crush about 16 ounces
of water, and then I go about a little bit
of puttering around.
I was up around 5:30.
6:30 now, so by the time I'm ready to start eating,
I will usually start off with something
that's easier on the stomach and lighter and fat-based.
So right now, we're gonna show you
how to make the vegan Four Sigmatic cordyceps coffee.
So I've done this before but it's a little bit updated.
We start with somewhere around a cup to two cups
of rice milk, cashew milk, almond milk,
really any milk besides actual milk.
Then I take Four Sigmatic mushroom cordyceps coffee
or just their regular coffee.
By the way, you can go to foursigmatic.com/triathlontaren
and get 15% off.
Much less caffeine, same amount of energy,
less gut rot, tastes like coffee.
And then I start adding all of the special add-ons.
We do a collagen for joint health,
do about a heaping tablespoon.
Add about a teaspoon of beet root powder.
Depends on your genetics, could act as a vasodilator,
so it opens up your blood vessels,
giving you basically just a surge of energy
because you've got more blood and oxygen in the muscles.
Do about a teaspoon of Four Sigmatic Superfood Blend.
There's a whole bunch of mushrooms in there
antioxidants, just general health.
Four Sigmatic Lemonade Elixir, do a teaspoon of that,
and these aren't prescribed to be mixed up.
I just like jacking up my system
with a bunch of mushrooms because all the antioxidants,
all the health benefits, all the restorative properties
that it has.
With all the training that we do,
use all the help we can get.
Do a tablespoon of MCT Oil.
It's just pure fat.
Tablespoon of sunflower butter or almond butter.
Top the rest up with water and blend.
(blender buzzing)
So what comes out is a shake that is a little bit sweet.
It's got some caffeine in it.
It's got some cordyceps in it to give me some energy,
but all the calories in it
are either primarily fat or protein.
At this point in the day,
I don't wanna start becoming reliant on carbohydrates.
I wanna be just slightly fat adapted,
so I start the day off with fat and protein,
which kinda keeps that fat burning state
that you go into while you sleep
going for a little bit longer.
And if I'm doing a workout right after this,
still just use that as long as it's only an hour
to an hour and a half, but today we're gonna use this
and then the workout's gonna come later.
In the morning, before I go workout,
come into the corner of the garage
and I work in near darkness and drink a pile of coffee,
cranking out one of my major to-dos of the morning.
Today it's writing a book for you.
So now that I'm done in the cavern,
it's been about two hours
since I had that shake, thereabouts.
I'm gonna go do my swim, but because it's been two hours,
I may have already processed a lotta those calories.
By the time I start getting into the swim,
it's gonna be three hours.
I don't wanna be depleted going into it
because I wanna be able to execute that swim well.
Now, there's a lot of question
about should you just be fat adapted,
should you go into a workout fasted?
Whenever it's a key workout or if I've got two workouts
in a day, going into a workout already a little bit depleted
I don't think is a very good idea.
You're gonna not be able to execute that workout very well,
and you will be digging a hole for the next workout.
So I'll tend to have a bar.
This is a Kronobar.
Thanks to the people from Tribay Market
for sending it in package I got from them recently.
Could be a Bonk Breaker, could be a Picky Bar,
could be just a small little bar that we make here at home,
but I'm just lookin' to get a little bit of calories
in a quick so I can get to the pool now.
So let's get to the pool now.
(water splashing)
(upbeat electronic music)
Now, because this workout's longer than an hour
and I've gotta be fresh for another workout after,
about midway through the swim, I take a Gel,
and during the swim, I've got a light electrolyte drink,
not a lotta calories, lot's of electrolytes.
(upbeat electronic music)
Pretty much immediately after the swim,
I take a recovery drink,
and this is about 150 to 200 calories
that are prepackaged into this Ziploc bag,
and it is a four to one carb to protein ratio.
Try to find one without any fat.
Having fat ends up slowing down your digestion process,
so it takes longer to replenish all that glycogen
in your muscles with the carbs
and get the protein back to the muscles
to start rebuilding.
Then, the one hour after I've had that shake,
I have a more substantial meal,
which lately has tended to be oatmeal
with a whole bunch of stuff in it.
First I start with the oatmeal.
Then I throw some nut milk in.
What I'm looking to do with this meal
is top up my levels of everything.
This is gonna have protein, carbs, fat, the whole business.
We do about a tablespoon of hemp hearts,
about a tablespoon chia seeds.
If you've been around for a while,
you know that I used to put frozen berries in.
I've switched that up for a banana
because what's been found is that things
that have a ton of antioxidants, like berries,
are so intensely antioxidant that when you take it
after a workout, your body is actually flushing out
a fair bit of the calories and the things
that you're consuming that you're trying to top back up.
So instead of taking those sugary antioxidant-rich berries,
I have sugary less oxidant-rich bananas.
Sprinkle a little bit of raisins on.
Get some walnuts for some healthy fats and omegas.
A little bit of vegan protein powder.
Apparently dairy is quite acidic and catabolic,
as in it doesn't necessarily promote
muscle growth in humans.
So at the moment, science says that on average,
should reduce some dairy.
Finally, add in a little bit of sunflower butter
or almond butter or peanut butter, whatever you like.
Heat it up.
(dish clanking)
And eat it down.
(growling)
Now before I end up heading out to the garage
to start doing work,
I wanna make myself another Four Sigmatic,
and it is currently 1 o'clock,
and because I wanna get to bed just about every day
by about nine, I wanna start tapering off
of any caffeine.
So I'm gonna go with the Lion's Mane Mushroom Elixir Mix.
Lion's Mane by Four Sigmatic has been known
to enhance mental acuity.
So while I'm out there working, trying to be super smart,
I will have the help
of Four Sigmatic Lion's Mane Mushroom Elixir Mix.
If you forgot that URL to go there,
you can just use the coupon code triathlontaren
to get 15% off any Four Sigmatic.
(upbeat dance music)
(slurping)
Mm, just felt my IQ points go up.
Gotta be into double digits by now.
Now a couple hours of work done,
time for a little bit of lunch.
This is going to be a three egg omelet.
What I've been finding is as I ramp up my training,
if all I'm doing is eating vegan-based meals
and I don't think to add in any meat every couple of days,
I get a little bit sluggish,
so I'm trying to have the odd three egg omelet,
and I do that from eggs that come
from actually a backyard little farm.
I went and chilled out with the chickens.
They were awesome, nice chickens.
So I've got three eggs, and then I've sliced up
a bunch of spinach, bunch of red peppers,
bunch of avocado, and there's a bunch of black beans
in there and salsa.
What kinda monster eats eggs without salsa?
(fork tapping)
So I've now got lot's of colors.
I've got lot's of good fat in there,
lot's of good vitamins, all kinds of good stuff.
As that's cooking up, I'll snack on a couple
of these homemade little mm peanut butter cookies
that Kim made,
gluten free, low sugar.
If I didn't have a run workout to do later today,
I would start tapering down the carbs
and just go with the omelet,
but because we got a run workout to do,
gonna have a couple carbs.
Couple carbs.
I burnt the hell outta these.
I'm not good at making omelets.
Chase it with a little fizzy water
and you got yourself a lunch of champions.
About to go do a 8K-ish run.
Little something beforehand.
Just before 5 o'clock,
haven't eaten in about two and a half hours,
so last meal was big, so I don't need much now,
just a little bit of carbs.
(upbeat electronic music)
It's been a while since I've failed at a workout that hard.
Supposed to be kilometer warmup, kilometer at race pace,
two kilometers at race pace, two kilometers
at 15 seconds above race pace for 10,
then two kilometers 30 seconds above race pace,
355 per kilometer and then a kilometer easy jog home.
Did not do it.
Couldn't do it.
Went too hard on the weekend, paying for it now.
I deserve that.
I deserve a Bonk Breaker because I bonked.
Same premise as this morning,
four to one carb to protein ratio.
- [Woman] And delicious.
- And delicious.
About an hour and a bit later, 7 p.m.,
stomach has settled.
Ooh, that's bright.
And it is a leftover kinda evening.
NTK is gone, so that means I get tomato soup,
and this is essentially what we had for dinner yesterday,
a gluten-free wrap with hummus, buffalo chickpea hummus.
Delicious (slapping).
Peanut butter is the glue that holds my body together.
A lotta people might be saying,
well, Taren, shouldn't you not eat before bed
to lose weight?
Yeah, but you should also get a really good sleep
to lose weight.
Now, I find that I have a hard time getting to sleep
if I'm hungry.
So a little bit of natural peanut butter,
all fat-based, a little bit of protein,
very slow digesting, so instead of slamming your body full
of a bunch of carbs right before bed,
a little bit of peanut butter.
And I have my final
and probably favorite Four Sigmatic product of the day,
Reishi Mushroom Elixir Mix.
This here is 1,500 milligrams of reishi,
and reishi is very calming.
So I'll have this, read a little bit of Harry Potter
right now in bed with a couple tablespoons of that
in my stomach, I will sleep like a baby.
So there you go, Trainiacs.
That is a day in the life
of Taren's stomach and the kitchen.
I really should've cleaned up.
NTK's gonna kill me.
As you can see, I am a huge fan of Four Sigmatic.
If you want any of those products,
go to foursigmatic.com/triathlontaren
or just go to foursigmatic.com
and use the coupon code triathlontaren for 15% off.
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Gonna drink that Four Sigmatic and head to bed.
Later, Trainiacs.