- Hey what's up Trainiacs, Triathlon Taren here.
If you are taking up triathlon as part
of a lifestyle change, which I know a lot of you are,
and you're looking to maybe lose a little bit of weight
and get a little bit more healthy, what we're gonna do
over the next four videos is we are going to talk about
start to finish, and include an accompanying free program
that you can do over the course of these four videos,
and four days that will help you lose weight.
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Now before I get into this video, I want to explain
my premise and sort of philosophy about weight loss.
If you take a look at my Instagram photos,
you'll notice that I'm not totally ripped.
That's because I am naturally like you are,
I'm a normal person.
I'm not built with an eight pack,
I actually used to weigh 215 pounds.
And how I've managed to lose weight is in the face
of naturally being a heavier individual.
So you might look at me and be like, what does this guy know
about weight loss, but I know a lot about weight loss,
having lost about 60 or more pounds
over the course of the last 10 years.
And I'm now able to keep it off
without it ever feeling like a diet.
Also, disclaimer, I'm not a nutritionist, I'm not a doctor,
I just play one on the internet.
So if you are looking at applying any of these principles,
certainly consult a physician, a qualified nutritionist,
we're just giving you some ideas here.
Now let's get started with how to start your day
before a morning workout in such a way
that encourages you to lose weight,
and particularly lose fat.
When we wake up in the morning, because we haven't eaten
for upwards of eight, nine, ten hours,
we're in a fat-burning mode.
We don't have carbs or glycogen in our muscles and our liver
that are easy to access.
Our body, however, will always want to use carbs
as its preferred source of fuel
because it assimilated quickly into our bloodstream,
it's easy access.
We don't really want that.
We want to be able to access fat so that we get leaner,
we get lighter.
So what I'm gonna give you here is the morning drink
that I have before a workout, that encourages my body
to stay in a fat burning mode.
You might have heard of Bulletproof Coffee.
That is a very big, popular morning drink
for a lot of keto proponents.
I am going to recommend kind of a take
on the Bulletproof Coffee, and there are a few reasons
way I don't follow it exactly.
Now the few reasons are
number one, I don't like drinking coffee all day.
It has basically energy benefits,
but it doesn't have necessarily health benefits.
Secondly, Bulletproof Coffee recommends that you eat
a ton of butter.
I am not a big fan of having a ton of animal products,
because I have a history of heart health issues
in my family.
Think that you can make some very easy substitutions
to basically have all the benefits of a Bulletproof Coffee,
while adding additional health benefits.
So we're gonna make that right now.
I start with about a cup of some type of milk
that is not dairy milk.
Dairy tends to not sit quite right for a lot of people,
so we've got cashew milk, we've got almond milk,
sometimes I use oatmeal milk, coconut milk, rice milk,
doesn't really matter basically.
Anything besides traditional dairy milk.
Sometimes I mix and match between two of them.
Also, the traditional Bulletproof Coffee
doesn't necessarily include a whole lot of protein.
If you're looking at maintaining muscle mass
but not adding a ton of calories,
I like adding a heaping tablespoon of gelatin.
This is basically collagen, this has been proven
to go right into your joints.
As endurance athletes, we end up just beating the tar
our of our joints.
We get a little bit of protein to maintain muscle mass,
and it ends up helping out our joints.
I like to add a couple drops of Vitamin D.
If you live anywhere that is even slightly wintry,
you are going to be likely Vitamin D deficient.
Vitamin D deficiencies lead to a lot of issues
with hormones, particularly testosterone,
which increases body fat, makes it harder to lose weight,
so I add about four or five drops of Vitamin D.
And then as a substitute for the butter,
I use either sunflower seed butter or almond butter.
Doesn't really make a difference, but I like to switch up
what I'm eating day-to-day,
so that I'm getting the same overall benefits,
but I'm not just eating the same thing every single day,
developing potentially autoimmune deficiencies
to certain types of foods.
So I'm always trying to mix things up.
Then I add, this is very traditional
with Bulletproof Coffee, is MCT oil.
This is like shelf stable and cooking stable coconut oil.
That's normal with Bulletproof Coffee.
Now here's the biggest change that I make,
I've been using Four Sigmatic mushroom coffee
for the last year or so.
I started using it when I started feeling
like I was becoming addicted to coffee,
and there weren't really that many health benefits to it
besides just giving me a big surge in energy.
Also, at the end of the day,
starting to get like that acidy feeling,
so I wanted to drink coffee
but it's not like it really even tasted good.
Four Sigmatic mushroom coffee, which is this here,
only has 50 milligrams of caffeine which is anywhere
from about a quarter to half as much
as is in a typical cup of coffee.
And then in addition to that,
you get a lot of health benefits
that are being found in mushrooms these days.
This one is just the straight-up coffee,
and I'll flip between this one,
which has about 50 milligrams of cordyceps
but it has the caffeine and the cordyceps
to give you energy, and just the straight-up cordyceps,
which has 1,500 milligrams of cordyceps and no caffeine.
So I'm looking at getting sort of a burst of energy
to get to that next workout,
but again getting more health benefits
than just overall coffee and being able to have options
with the way that I'm gonna get that energy.
If you're interested in getting Four Sigmatic,
I've arranged a deal with them
that if you go to foursigmatic.com/triathlontaren,
you can get 15% off of any of their products.
And that is an affiliate link so it does help us out.
If you just end up going to foursigmatic.com,
not remembering that unique URL for us,
you can enter triathlontaren as a coupon code,
still get that 15% off.
But this is what I use for my Bulletproof Coffee
every single day for all those reasons.
Oh, and they've also got hot cocoa, which is delicious.
They've got Lion's Mane for mental acuity,
they've got Chaga for immune function,
all good stuff people.
So today, I am going to use the cordyceps,
basically just because I'm running low
on the straight-up mushroom coffee.
Top the rest of that up with water, blend this sucker up.
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After I've made it the night before, I put it in the fridge,
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and I've got to give it a shake the next morning,
or if I'm making it in the morning, I still drink it cold.
I find that it tastes best cold, by far.
So I end up having that drink before
just about every single workout that is under
about an hour and a half, because I don't need
a huge amount of carbs.
And there are a lot of benefits to this
that science has shown and that I've found.
Personally, I've found that I'm lighter, like weight-wise.
I also feel lighter for the workout
because I don't have a big mass of food in my stomach.
But I get a nice, sort of a kick of energy,
but it's not a surge of energy.
Fair warning, what you're gonna find
if you start taking this,
is that it's gonna take you about three to four weeks
to get used to fueling off of fat as opposed to carbs
because your body is going to want to use carbs
as opposed to fat.
Takes little while the train that way.
Once you do end up getting your body trained that way,
it's got a huge amount of benefits.
In addition to being lighter,
you've also got less chance of bonking in a race
because your body all of a sudden knows how to use fat
and your fat stores during the middle of a race.
And it keeps your blood sugar low.
You don't have that big spike,
which ends up resulting in a crash.
And that crash is what often results in hunger pains
throughout the day, causing people to overeat.
So there you go, thank you to Four Sigmatic
for its sponsoring this video.
As I mentioned before, if you want to get some Four Sigmatic
for your Bulletproof Coffee,
go to foursigmatic.com/triathlontaren
or use triathlontaren as a coupon code.
And if you want to get the entire free resource
that I've put together for how to lose weight
with triathlon training,
go to triathlontaren.com/weightloss.
It's free, punch in your email address
and you'll get a bunch of calculators,
you'll get a bunch of tools and resources
that are going to help you learn how to exactly lose weight
while not really feeling like you're dieting
so that you can keep that weight off,
and turn triathlon and healthy living into a lifestyle.
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