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In this February 17th free audio episode: the latest research on strength and conditioning, timing supplements before exercise, alkaline water, the lemonade diet, women hip issues, more on wheat germ, sitting on exercise balls, which low fiber foods to eat before an event, and death by modern medicine.

Remember, if you have any trouble listening, downloading, or transferring to your .mp3 player just e-mail ben@bengreenfieldfitness.com. And don’t forget to leave the podcast a ranking in iTunes – it only takes 2 minutes of your time and helps grow our healthy community! Just click here to go to our iTunes page and leave feedback.

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In this shocking interview with Dr. Carolyn Dean, one of the nation’s leading natural physicians, we discuss Dr. Dean’s amazing new book “Death by Modern Medicine” . Be prepared to learn the truth about the travesties of modern medicine that are surrounding you, including:

Fitness trainer, nutritionist and triathlon coach Ben Greenfield has written several featured books on metabolism, fat loss, lean muscle, low back pain, triathlon weightlifting and nutrition. Browse below for special web-only pricing on fitness, nutrition, health and triathlon books and DVD’s!

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In many of the programs that I write out for my clients who are pursuing fat loss, I include a weekly or bi-weekly “long slow fat burning session”. This is chance for an individual to train their body how to oxidize and utilize fat efficiently during exercise, and is a good opportunity to still burn calories and burn fat, without breaking down the body in the same way as a hard session would.

After all, if you go hard all the time, every day, you’re just going to get hurt or burn yourself out.

But some people, and especially longer distance endurance athletes such as triathletes, get stuck in a rut, performing a long slow fat burning session for nearly every workout – completely avoiding intensity or just not doing intense workouts or intervals because it takes them outside their comfort zone.

There are even trainers, athletes and coaches who would argue that long slow distance training is the ultimate way to get fit, since it turns the body into an aerobic machine and allows for superior development of the “slow-twitch” muscle fibers, which take a longer time to fatigue and primarily utilize fat as a fuel.

But this really isn’t true. As a matter of fact, you’re wasting your time and getting subpar results if all you’re doing are long, slow aerobic workouts.

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In this February 10th free audio episode: all about testosterone, whether wheat germ helps you with performance, research on diet coke, getting enough calories, duathlon training, leaning up quickly, saturated fats and magnesium.

Remember, if you have any trouble listening, downloading, or transferring to your .mp3 player just e-mail ben@bengreenfieldfitness.com. And don’t forget to leave the podcast a ranking in iTunes – it only takes 2 minutes of your time and helps grow our healthy community! Just click here to go to our iTunes page and leave feedback.

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The results are in! In this week’s interview with Dr. Richard Cohen from Bioletics, who you may remember from podcasts #53 (six key performance factors), #62 (Ben’s performance testing results) and #72 (essential fatty acids), I find out the final results of my home saliva testing for testosterone, and whether I was actually able to make any difference in my hormone levels by following Dr. Cohen’s suggestions. Whether you’re a male who is worried about that natural decline in testosterone (called andropause) that occurs after the age of 27, or a female who wants to find out whether she may be overtraining or not losing weight properly, Dr. Cohen tells you everything you need to know about testosterone and hormone testing, including:

Ever wished that you could put all the recipe tips from Ben Greenfield up on your refrigerator or in your kitchen for easy access?

What if you could easily grab one Ben’s cutting-edge workouts and take it with you to the gym?

What if Ben sent you a special piece of exclusive body transformation mail to your mailbox, every week – jam packed with tips, tricks and fat loss secrets?

As a member of Ben’s Body Transformation Club, you’ll actually get workouts and recipes delivered straight to your mailbox, every week! Each week, the new private video content and recipe/workout notes will be added to a secret website with exclusive content  designed to enhance the personal postcards that I send you from my secret collection of body transforming workouts and recipes.

That’s right…no more hunching over your computer as you read about how to prepare to make a healthy meal…and no more hurriedly jotting down workout notes from a blog post before you hit the gym!

Here is a sample video insider member’s video explaining an extremely simple chocolate-banana fat loss recipe Ben sent out from his hotel room! There’s tons more content just like this inside the Body Transformation Club…

Last week’s interview with Nancy Appleton on “Suicide By Sugar” got a lot of people talking. One listener wrote in and asked me about chai tea.

Listener Theresa asks: “Is chai tea OK for me or my kids to be drinking? We order it nearly every time we go to Starbucks.”

So is Chai Tea healthy? Is it an alternative to calorie-laden frappucinos or other beverages you might find at the coffee shop? With comfortable and warming flavors of clover and cinnamon, it can’t be all that bad, right?

I checked out a few of the recipes out there for Chai Tea. Cane sugar, honey and citric acid are three of the primary ingredients in the syrupy concentrate that is used to make the chai tea latte at Starbucks, which hammers you with 220-300 calories per drink.

Another version of chai, Oregan Chai Tea Concentrate, is probably the most popular version of chai used by most coffeeshops and restaurants, and although quite tasty, delivers a walloping 19 grams of sugar from “organic” evaporated cane juice. Don’t let the “organic” part of that fool you. Organic sugar is just the pure, nutrient and fiber stripped extract from sugar cane. Sure, they may not have sprayed the sugar cane with herbicides and pesticides. But it’s just pure sugar.

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In this February 3rd free audio episode: what you don’t know about sugar, restless leg syndrome, getting rid of sciatic pain, whether something called “Ripped Freak” actually works, appetite suppressing tricks, when to foam roll, marathon before a triathlon, and excessively high heart rates during exercise.

Remember, if you have any trouble listening, downloading, or transferring to your .mp3 player just e-mail ben@bengreenfieldfitness.com. And don’t forget to leave the podcast a ranking in iTunes – it only takes 2 minutes of your time and helps grow our healthy community! Just click here to go to our iTunes page and leave feedback.

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In the first official featured topic of 2010, I introduce you to Nancy Appleton, PhD. You may have read her article (which was featured at BenGreenfieldFitness.com last month) entitled “143 Reasons Sugar Ruins Your Health”, which was an excerpt from Nancy’s shocking but well-researched book “Suicide by Sugar”, which you can look at by clicking here.

There occasionally comes a time in my hectic lifestyle of endurance, nutrition and fitness coaching, training and racing where I stumble upon something that truly alters my performance and recovery in a significantly positive way. But for each of these instances, there are a thousand examples of products that just don’t seem to work, and waste time and money for my athletes and myself. So when Mr. Stout from Mt. Capra called me on the phone and asked me to try their new “sports recovery” product, I was naturally skeptical, since the market is saturated with literally hundreds of recovery compounds.

What arrived in the mail the next day was a small canister, about the size of a yogurt container, of something called “Solar Synergy”. When I opened the lid, the container revealed a dark orange powder that smelled like a mix of sweet tropical aromas and salty minerals. I was instructed to take about 1 tablespoon per day, mixed into a glass of water or smoothie – preferably after a workout.

They also sent over a nutrition label image which you can read here and a facts sheet PDF document which you can read here.

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You see, traditionally, to get top-notch triathlon coaching and have all your questions instantly answered at the snap of your fingers, you had to either pay big bucks or know somebody important.

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But just imagine if you tried to learn how to play basketball, operate a computer, or fix your car by wandering aimlessly around and just “picking stuff up” as you learned it … it’d be time-consuming, frustrating, and full of mistakes and errors!

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