Primal Endurance shakes up the status quo and challenges the overly
stressful, ineffective conventional approach to endurance training.
While marathons and triathlons are wildly popular and bring much
gratification and camaraderie to the participants, the majority of
athletes are too slow, continually tired, and carry too much body fat
respective to the time they devote to training. The prevailing "chronic
cardio" approach promotes carbohydrate dependency, overly stressful
lifestyle patterns, and ultimately burnout.
Mark Sisson, author of the 2009 bestseller, The Primal Blueprint, and
de-facto leader of the primal/paleo lifestyle movement, expertly applies
primal lifestyle principles to the unique challenge of endurance
training and racing. Unlike the many instant and self-anointed experts
who have descended upon the endurance scene in recent years, Sisson and
his co-author/business partner Brad Kearns boast a rich history in
endurance sports. Sisson has a 2:18 marathon and 4th place Hawaii
Ironman finish to his credit, has spearheaded triathlon's global
anti-doping program for the International Triathlon Union, and has
coached/advised leading professional athletes, including Olympic
triathlon gold and silver medalist Simon Whitfield and Tour de France
cyclist Dave Zabriskie. Under Sisson's guidance, Kearns won multiple
national championships in duathlon and triathlon, and rose to a #3
world triathlon ranking in 1991.
Primal Endurance applies an all-encompassing approach to endurance
training that includes primal-aligned eating to escape carbohydrate
dependency and enhance fat metabolism, building an aerobic base with
comfortably paced workouts, strategically introducing high intensity
strength and sprint workouts, emphasizing rest, recovery, and an annual
periodization, and finally cultivating an intuitive approach to training
instead of the usual robotic approach of fixed weekly workout schedules.
When you "go Primal" as an endurance athlete, you can expect to enjoy
these and other benefits in short order:
- Easily reduce excess body fat and keep it off permanently, even during
periods of reduced training
- Perform better by reprogramming your genes to burn fat and spare
glycogen during sustained endurance efforts
- Avoid overtraining, burnout, illness, and injury by improving your
balance of stress and rest, both in training and everyday life
- Spend fewer total hours training and get more return on investment
with periodized and purposeful workout patterns
- Have more fun, be more spontaneous, and break free from the pull of
the obsessive/compulsive mindset that is common among highly
motivated, goal-oriented endurance athletes
- Have more energy and better focus during daily life instead of
suffering from the "active couch potato syndrome," with cumulative
fatigue from incessant heavy training makes you lazy and sluggish
Primal Endurance is about slowing down, balancing out, chilling out,
and having more fun with your endurance pursuits. It's about building
your health through sensible training patterns, instead of destroying
your health through chronic training patterns. While it might be hard to
believe at first glance, you can actually get faster by backing off from
the overly aggressive and overly regimented "Type-A" training approach
that prevails in today's endurance community. Primal Endurance will
show you how, every step of the way.
