- Good morning trainiacs just a little
endurance adventure today.
did a 30 minute yoga session
with the new team trainiac yoga instructor,
who by the time she becomes the yoga instructor
for team trainiac it'll actually be
the motive training app.
That's exciting.
Then I followed that up
with a 30 minute little flail there and the old master spas
right before podcasts that we gotta do
with Laura Phillip right now.
Goodness, it is cold.
(breathing heavily)
It's like take your breath away minus 21 cold.
Which is, I don't know
the converted minus 10 Fahrenheit.
Hold up your shirt and wave.
Well, it was just a lovely chat
with Laura Philipp
and her husband and coach Philipp Seipp.
If you don't know, we will have the podcast up this Sunday.
Laura is like going like this and professional triathlon
and Phillip is also going
like this in coaching and triathlon.
Really, really talented folk here.
I wanna, I wanna show you something here.
Over the weekend I ended up,
unfortunately, coming across a thread online
about people straight up calling me a fatty
and that I have no business giving people training
or diet advice.
Now yeah, like I'm, I'm up.
I'm probably up 20 pounds
but I gotta show you something here look,
so this is what's called the DUTCH test.
This is something that we use for hormones.
Now, what this does, is it does cortisol
and my cortisol is actually fairly good.
I've managed this fairly well
which means that I'm getting out of over-training,
so, hey, that's cool.
Testosterone, still quite low there.
It's starting to come back but overall it's still lower
than we want but here's the thing that I wanna show you.
This next test is the OAT test by Great Plains Laboratory.
You can work with a functional medicine doctor about this
but down here, clostridia, bacterial markers.
If you Google Clostridium difficile,
this is a bacteria that lives in your gut
and you contract it by getting into a hospital.
It's really prevalent in hospitals
and can't quite see it zoomed out there
but my clostridium markers are off the charts
and for May, until this test, which was done in November
my clostridia numbers are actually growing higher.
Now I'm telling you this
is because clostridia A is a really serious thing.
Like it's got a seven percent mortality rate.
B, It is very highly correlated with poor serotonin.
Some of the depression,
lack of motivation that I really started feeling
over the course of the last couple of years,
that some of you have commented
that you've noticed,
it's associated with that.
Weight gain.
Clostridia is associated with weight gain.
It's also very much associated with,
well, when you restrict carbs,
when you have a clostridia infection,
you gain a lot of weight
and in one study, where they did this with mice
like mice died.
This is serious stuff
and a lot of it is all related to Clostridia.
Why I'm telling you all this, is to A,
let you know that there is
some really good testing out there
that if you are suffering
you can take things like inside tracker.
That's what I use for my basic biomarkers.
My basic blood testing.
You can do the DUTCH test for your hormones.
You can do the organic acids test to make sure
that you are okay across the board
and then the other reason why
I'm telling you this is because
there's a very serious thing here
that I'm struggling with
and to be honest, when it's something that I can't control
because of something that's going on internally
that you don't just take a pill and it's gone.
It's like years of potentially overcoming it
like, you wanna talk about kicking somebody when they're
down and I'm seeing more and more of that happen
throughout the triathlon world, that there are more
and more negative comments that have come
up over the past year
not just towards me, but towards a lot of people overall
like we can't do this to each other people.
Now this comes up
because we actually just put out a podcast
with James Lawrence, the iron cowboy who did 50 ironmans
in 50 States in 50 days, a bunch of years ago
and now he's doing a hundred ironmans in a hundred days
in like, Oh jeez, less than a month and a half now
and when we announced this, people started ragging on him
about how, I don't know, the 50, 50, 50 wasn't legitimate
because he took an I V, he was on a, an elliptical
for one of the marathons.
I don't care how many IVs you take,
You're still doing 50 ironmans in 50 days,
It's still way more bad-ass than anything
any of those negative commenters have written.
I was flabbergasted that anyone has the guts to
oh maybe it's stupidity to put him down for that.
So I just started thinking and researching,
Like why would people leave nasty con
why does it happen?
And something that I found is loneliness.
It contributes a lot to people lashing out online
'cause where can they feel some sort of connection
however it is
and what's been happening over the past year,
massive amounts of loneliness.
Obviously we're all isolated.
We've got no racing
We're stripped from going to the gym
and from training with others in a lot of cases,
loneliness.
I just had to go to the bank there.
You know what? This past year,
my best friends have been like the banker,
physiotherapist, sauge therapist.
Really the only people I'm allowed to see, friends, right?
Best friends.
We're friends, Marge at the bank right?
Now, all of this isn't to say like,
hey, trolls, back off of everyone 'cause
that's just not going to happen.
They're always going to be around
but if you're somebody who's maybe been like the focus
of a troll or you've just had negative comments
even from somebody that you know, sent to you online,
have empathy for them and compassion
because like think about how rough it's gotta be
for somebody to start leaving and spending
serious time on leaving negative comments on
other people's content or just getting in people's faces.
That's weird
and you got to feel for people who resort to that.
Someone once said to me or I heard this said somewhere
"do you think Michael Jordan or tiger woods
or Wayne Gretzky or Tom Brady or sitting at home like,
Oh, I'm gonna tell this person
what I think about their YouTube
video or their Facebook comment?"
No and if you're feeling lonely and you're
having a hard time through this year, I get it.
Like I am Mr. I get it.
This year has been probably one
of the toughest years in the last 10 years.
Everything seemingly is going well but it's hard.
It's tough but racing will come back.
Your training partners will come back
and more than anything
if I can impart any little thing that I've learned
over the past year, about how to make it easier
on yourself to get through this
until life comes back and loneliness
and depression and all this separation go away.
It's to try somehow to connect with others
and one of the easiest ways to do that,
is to be of service somehow.
I mean, I don't have it figured out
but you all of you out there, us,
this thing that we've got here
where I get to talk to you and stay accountable to you
and try to be of service to you is what keeps me motivated
and keeps me from being on the couch.
Oh, that was really, really close.
So public service announcement
for now, be kind to each other, stay well
and we will see each other at a race sometime
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later trainiacs.