Comments on: Dear Mark: Primal Compromises for Athletes

By: Grok

Grok — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:38:05 +0000

The comments is this post are pure gold. This one is getting a bookmark.

By: kayrock12

kayrock12 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:16:12 +0000

I would love to hear more on this, so far I feel awesome, hardly any afib or flutter(still on meds) and when i do have an episode it is not bad at all. Thanks

By: Mark Sisson

Mark Sisson — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:32:28 +0000

kayrock, ironically (or not) I had dinner last night with one of the world’s most accomplished afib experts, Dr. David Cannom. He is on a mission to show how dangerous “chronic cardio” training can be if not approached appropriately.

By: kayrock12

kayrock12 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:29:10 +0000

I am so glad my friend told me about this site, the info obtain is awesome!!!! I am a runner distance 1/2 marathons and marathons and also have afib/aflutter. Since i started this my attacks of flutter have significantly decreased. Thanks Mark and my bud Paul for all this info, hope it makes me run faster at disney marathon.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:25:36 +0000

I’m currently training for Navy Officer Candidate School and lets just say the military is a devoted follower of CW. But a balance can be found. I do 3 days of lift heavy things about 45-50 minutes each, 2 days of 50 minute cardio exercises (plyometric jumping and capoeira but I almost think of that as play), 1 day of yoga for flexibility, and on my lifting days I might do a 2 mile run in 14minutes, 6 400m sprints, or just 20 minutes around the track.

But I do need to make some compromises. I eat more on lifting days because I do 2 workouts, and after my 2 cardios I do have a workout drink. But its all in moderation. You have to adjust the nutrition to your workout without going too far into CW

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By: ebrunner

ebrunner — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:58:35 +0000

You know, the more I think about it, the more I realize that the kind of training you are advocating isn’t that far off from the current endurance training recommendations. I think in your marathon days, there was a greater emphasis on steady state runs, but the latest trend seems to be running a high volume at low intensity, with 1-2 true workouts per week.

Lance Armstrong is an example of this approach – since he came back from cancer, he emphasized long (5-6+ hour) rides at ~60% of his max HR. Of course, he increased is intensity as he got closer to the Tour by riding in the mountains and doing more threshold work, but the focus was on building that pure aerobic capacity.

Seems kind of Primal – lots of low-intensity work, coupled with a relatively small amount of intensity. His intense workouts may have been be too long to be considered Primal (e.g., several 30-60 minute climbs in a 5 hour ride, not the brief sprints you suggest), but this training doesn’t seem too far off from what you suggest, and if the hard workouts were scaled back a bit, could potentially be fueled on a Primal Diet.