Ali Fitness Podcast

Might as well face it, you’re addicted to carbs. The conventional approach to endurance training promotes ‘chronic cardio’ and carbohydrate dependency. But there is a way to reset your metabolic clock with the keto diet, and today’s guest wrote the book on it – well, he co-authored it anyway! Brad Kearns has been a well-known coach, speaker and author in the health and fitness realm for 20-plus years. During his nine-year career as a triathlete, he was one of the world’s top ranked professionals, amassing 30 wins worldwide on the pro circuit, and he still holds the Hawaii Ironman 18-24 age division American record at 8:57. Brad has partnered with his former coach and fellow health and fitness authority Mark Sisson to lead the Primal Blueprint, a comprehensive ancestral health movement. Together they co-authored the 2016 release Primal Endurance, a guidebook that teaches athletes how to employ a stress-balanced, fat-adapted Primal approach to training. The duo has another book coming out this fall, The Keto Re

Most of us believe that it takes a great deal of discipline to train for endurance sports like marathon running. But today’s guest argues that discipline is only necessary for the first 30 days. Once training has become a habit over time, you get addicted – and you have to run to feel good. Stefano Passarello is a devoted husband and father of two. He is also the managing partner of Hong Kong-based accounting firm People & Projects Ltd, and a frequent consultant for startups. That would be enough for most of us, but Stefano somehow fits in elite-level marathon training – and he has added triathlons to his agenda this past year as well. Though he doesn’t consider himself to be a professional athlete, he does race like one, finishing the Hong Kong Marathon in just two hours and 31 minutes last February. How did he do it? I’m glad you asked. Stefano joins Ali to cover his overall approach to training, including his resistance to following a structured plan, how the keto diet helped him improve his time, and

So you’ve reached a plateau in the course of your training, and you’re thinking about hiring a coach to get you to the next level. How do you choose the right one? What questions should you be asking? The best coaches customize a training program specifically for you based on relevant data, and today’s guest is an authority in the use of technology to boost training efficiency. After winning the Australian National Mountain Bike Championships in 1998, Damian Ruse retired from cycling to purse a degree in Psychology and even try his hand at music. But in 2006, he returned to racing. The road back was not easy; Damian was unable to finish C-grade crits in 2007. So he hired a coach, optimized his life around training, and focused on recovery and nutrition, and by 2009 he was finishing in the top ten in A-grade competition. He went on to win the B-grade Club Championship and score a number of top ten finishes in the Open category of MTB marathons. During the course of his comeback, Damian learned to get analytica

Elle Russ was doing everything ‘right.’ She was eating a low-fat, low-carb diet and doing high-intensity cardio workouts regularly. Unfortunately, her primal brain thought that she was starving and running from danger, and in an effort to protect her, it asked her body to produce less thyroid hormone. Elle gained fifty pounds – despite working out two hours a day – and suffered from 30-plus debilitating symptoms. When the medical community offered no solution, she became her own doctor and resolved two severe bouts of hypothyroidism in ten years with a combination of thyroid hormone replacement therapy and a dedicated Paleo/Primal lifestyle.  Elle is a writer, actor and life coach. An alumna of the prestigious Second City–Chicago comedy theatre, she began her acting and writing career in sketch comedy and improvisation. She has gone on to write sitcoms, documentaries, drama, and non-fiction, including The Paleo Thyroid Solution, the only lifestyle and weight loss plan for maximizing thyroid metabolism in alig

 ‘How do you get faster by slowing down?’ Today’s guest enjoyed a 15-year career as an elite triathlete – and improved year after year – because he learned to train smart, avoid injury and burnout, and build a deep level of fitness.  Mark Allen is one of the most decorated triathletes in the history of the sport. He is a six-time champion of the Ironman Triathlon Hawaii, a ten-time winner of the Nice International Championships, and the only triathlete to have a 20-race winning streak. Mark was named Triathlete of the Year six times, he is a member of the Ironman Triathlon Hall of Fame, and he was voted ‘The Greatest Endurance Athlete of All Time’ in a worldwide poll conducted by ESPN in 2012. Today Mark runs MarkAllenCoaching, a global online training community which serves athletes at all levels, from beginners through elite triathletes. He is a sought-after speaker and consultant, as well as the co-author of Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You. Mark joins Ali to share his wealth of knowl