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- [Narrator] Morning trainiacs, we are...
60 minutes into a 25 minute run off the bike.
Our attempted Iron Man race pace of 440,
trying to speed up the cadence a little bit.
There some, a little bit tighter arms
but we'll talk about that another day.
Today, I want to talk about,
seemingly like we have always been doing the last
couple weeks,
is fat adaptation process.
And the reasons
why you might wanna consider it.
All the benefits that you could potentially get.
Apparently,
one of which,
is having to work out more than two hours a day
every week day.
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I felt deadly at a 440 kilometer,
I think that's a
317 marathon?
We'll see.
I like that tucked in little elbow,
go to Instagram.
I'll show a little video clip and explain
the theory behind that, and what we're trying to do.
So what I've got here is a book from Grant Schofield.
Now Grant, is the Plews,
Dan Plews business partner in Endure IQ,
and that is their online corse website for
fat oxidizing training,
and long distance triathlon training from, the Plews.
That's his method of approaching
long distance triathlon training.
And these are six of the best,
most compelling benefits that Grant Schofield
has indicated in his book, "What the Fat?"
Now, there are a few books, I'll explain that later.
But one, you will be mentally sharper.
Apparently, when you don't have that blood sugar
dip that you get from eating a bunch of carbs,
having it spike your blood sugar and then coming down,
that's kinda mellowed out
and a lot of people say that
they're just mentally sharper on average.
I don't know if they're like actually mentally sharper,
or if just on average they're mentally sharper.
I'll keep you posted.
Reason number two,
you won't run out of fuel.
As far as our purposes here,
in triathlon training, that's the big one.
You're not going to bonk because,
if you can oxidize fat,
essentially it makes up for a short fall
of carbohydrates that
I laid out why we have a short fall and why we bonk
in a video that I did up there.
The math of becoming a better fat oxidizer.
Reason number three, you will be leaner.
That's what we're trying to set a base line for today.
I'll explain that in a bit.
Reason number four, you will recover faster.
So when you burn carbohydrates,
it's dirty fuel.
It's like coal.
A lot of free radicals get released
which create inflammation.
If you can reduce your inflammation,
you're going to recover faster,
you're going to be less sore,
you're going to be able to go to the well
and train better day after day after day,
with less likelihood of injury.
Reason number five, you will tolerate more pain.
This is a really interesting one,
I'm just going to read this to you
'cause I didn't know this.
Animal and human studies show us
that both the threshold level of pain
and maximal level of pain tolerance
are lower after blood glucose goes up.
That is, the higher your blood sugar,
the less able you are to handle pain.
So in our case, as triathletes,
where we are under a low level of pain all the time,
if we can increase what that is,
all of our efforts are going to feel a little bit easier.
Reason number six, you will experience fewer
gut/stomach issues when racing.
If you don't have to put as much in,
it's going to be easier for your stomach to digest
the smaller amounts of carbs that you do put in on race day.
So you're not going to be overloading your stomach
with the tasses, going to be very hard for it
because blood isn't in your stomach while we're racing.
It's here, and here.
So that, is going to be dissipated.
And there's a couple bonus life reasons,
your health will improve,
and, possibly the best ever reason, you will age slower.
A lot of that has to do with the free radicals
that I talked about.
And all around good things.
So, Grand Schofield and Dan Plews,
being the researchers that they are,
very astutely said, "You can't go and just say
these things in books, and on YouTube."
So we need to actually test and verify
so we can share with you the actual results
of what I'm going through.
So, today, we're gonna go to
Body Measure, here in Winnipeg,
not an ad,
and get my body fat tested.
I carry a lot of body fat in my love handles
and in my bum.
So, I think anything under 15% is a total win.
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- [Woman] This is a low dose x-ray machine,
that takes an image of your body and basically tells you
what your bone density is, how much body fat you have,
your internal visceral fat,
how much muscle you have,
if you're symmetrical side to side,
it gives you really detailed information
bout your body.
You get three images with this,
so one of your skeleton,
one of your soft tissue,
one of muscle and body fat.
So it's,
it's quite in depth.
And then we basically,
basically to do this, it takes six minutes.
You lie on this table,
the scanner goes over your body.
Just goes down like a photocopier machine.
And uh, and yeah.
Then we,
I analyze everything,
and then we sit down and go over it piece by piece.
- [Narrator] So who uses this?
Like we were talking about our outside,
is it just for sports or...
Beneficial for lots more?
[Woman] As far as, yeah, it's basically for everyone.
It gives you kind of a baseline
of what your body is all about,
and then you can set goals.
Maybe you have low muscle mass,
and you need to work more on building muscle.
Maybe you have low bone density,
and we need to get you doing,
either seeing your doctor and going on medication
if it's really low,
or just weight bearing exercise to build bone density.
Maybe you're really fit,
go to the gym all the time but,
your diet is poor and you got a lot of visceral fat,
and then that puts you
at higher risk for Congenital heart disease,
and types of diabetes and high blood pressure,
and numerous other things.
So maybe we need to get you
watching your diet, eating a little lower carbohydrates,
lower sugar diet to get rid of that visceral fat.
And then we can follow your progress.
And we've had clients already
in the eight months that we've been here
that have lost, you know, 60% of their visceral fat
in three months, and they were fit.
Looked great on the outside,
but they were carrying five pounds of visceral fat.
- [Narrator] Visceral fat being on the organs.
- [Woman] Yeah, so behind your abdominal wall
wrapped around your organs and your intestines.
And,
it's like a,
direct correlation between that
and types diabetes, and, Congenital heart disease.
So, it's very, puts you at high risk for those things
if you have over two pounds of visceral fat.
And we've seen people up to ten pounds of visceral fat.
- [Narrator] Really?
- [Woman] Yeah.
- [Narrator] Oh wow.
Okay.
- [Woman] Yeah!
So, it just, it gets you some really good insight
into your body.
- [Narrator] Right, it's a good baseline.
- [Woman] Yeah, it's a great baseline and then,
it really shows you what you need to work on.
- [Narrator] Yeah.
Alright, let's do it.
- [Woman] Let's do it!
Fantastic.
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- [Narrator] It's me,
it's me.
Also me.
I think I nailed it.
- [Woman] So, this is your humerus right here,
the head of your humerus.
And so basically, just outside of that,
and down for your pelvis,
just the top, top of the pelvis,
without actually touching bone.
And then, for your legs, just basically
going through the heads of your femur,
which is right in here.
- [Narrator] Yeah.
- [Woman] For bone density
we would go through the neck of the femur,
but for body composition,
I want to see more of the leg.
In the leg, actually.
So, that's how we analyze that.
- [Narrator] Well, traniacs,
we have some excellent numbers to share.
Really just one that I want to brag about.
So,
thank you Body Measure,
apparently my total mass,
157.3 pounds.
Little bit high because,
I've had a day of eating.
Fat mass, 22.6.
Lean mass, 127.6 pounds.
Visceral adipose tissue,
that's fat that's inside your body,
on the organs,
very high likelihood of developing diabetes,
getting complications from that,
you want that under two pounds.
I'm at a half a pound.
Let's see some other things.
This is fun,
I was just bragging about this.
My bone density,
off the charts.
Literally off the charts.
A bone density of 1.3 is like the top of the charts,
2.6.
- [Woman] (laugh)
- [Narrator] Huh?
You're gonna have to go brag to all your friends
about who you work for.
Let's get into body fat percentage.
14.4.
As a dude who's always held a lot right here,
and on the bum,
I think as lean as I've ever been,
back in the days when I was pretending to be a bodybuilder,
somewhere around, I wanna say 13.5.
14.4,
I'm pumped.
So why do this?
Like I say,
we can't just go and make a whole bunch of videos
and tell you to go to triathlontaren.com/theplews
and get started low carb training,
and go through this whole process,
without giving actual proof, or results,
of what we're doing.
Now, in addition to that,
I would recommend that you go and check out
the, "What the Fat?" book.
Now there's two versions of the book.
I will put a link in the description below
to the one that you want.
One is just for general people,
other is for doing it as an athlete.
That's the one that you want.
That'll be an affiliate link,
so if you go and purchase that book.
Does help us out, doesn't cost you anything.
And, if you are in Winnipeg, and you want to get this,
go check out Body Measure.
Very nice people.
This is just all very new services for Winnipeg and
one of the ladies who owns it,
has actually lost 85 pounds
eating keto over the last couple years.
Mention my name, you'll get full price.
It'll be great.
Quiet!
Quiet on set!
Geez.
- [Background] That one got me.
- [Narrator] (laughs) That one gotcha.
Alright, go check it out, triathlontaren.com/theplews.
"What the Fat?" In the book.
Body Measure.
Thanks for having me ladies.
Later.