Slow the F Down: Dismantling the Modern Fitness Lie with Brad Kearns

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Dr. Mindy Pelz

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Elite athlete and author Brad Kearns discusses a transformative fitness approach as we age, emphasizing walking and gentle exercise over high-intensity workouts. Co-author of 'Born to Walk' with Mark Sisson, he argues that rigorous activities can harm aging bodies, leading to injuries. Kearns highlights the benefits of Zone One cardiovascular efforts, strength training, and the evolutionary reasons for endorphin rushes. Dr. Mindy also stresses the need for aging individuals, particularly women, to embrace activities that align with their changing bodies instead of pursuing intense, potentially harmful fitness goals.

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Brad Kearns is a New York Times bestselling author, former two-time US national champion and #3 world-ranked professional triathlete, and currently elite masters track and field sprinter and high jumper. He placed 2nd in the 2024 USA Masters National Championships age 55-59 high jump. His B.rad podcast is a top-10 ranked Apple Podcasts "Fitness" category show covering diet, fitness, peak performance, personal growth and longevity with Brad's carefree style and lively sense of humour. More at BradKearns.com

His 2025 book with Mark Sisson titled Born To Walk exposes the hype and broken promises of the running boom, and how walking extensively every day is a fundamental genetic expectation for human health. More at BornToWalkBook.com

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Resetter podcast, we're going to talk about fitness in a way you've
0:08.0	never heard me talk about it before. So I want to introduce you to Brad Kearns. He wrote a book
0:15.0	called Born to Walk. He co-authored it with Mark Sisson, for those of you that know Mark. And the book's title,
0:22.7	like I said, is called Born to Walk. But what's going to be very surprising to you is that
0:29.3	Brad is actually a elite athlete. He's a former two-time U.S. national champion. He is number three
0:36.5	world-ranked professional triathlet champion. He is number three world ranked professional triathlet.
0:38.5	He is currently competing in the master's category for track and field and high jumper.
0:45.9	He has a huge curriculum vitae when it comes to fitness. And he believes that we are pushing ourselves way too much, especially when we
1:01.4	age. So my interest in bringing Brad on is that I have seen this not only in my own 55-year-old
1:09.7	ex-athlet body, but I have heard from a lot of you all
1:13.9	who are starting to get injured over and over and over again as you work out.
1:20.5	And why I wanted to bring Brad to you all and to the Resetter podcast is there is another
1:25.7	conversation that needs to be had around fitness and
1:30.2	aging. And it doesn't mean you become a couch potato. It doesn't mean you just take a stroll with the dog.
1:35.9	It actually means that you understand how to use walking to your best fitness advantage. And Brad is going to teach us that.
1:47.4	So you're going to hear a lot about his beliefs around walking versus running as we age.
1:52.8	He has a real interesting way of explaining this zone one cardiovascular effort that we need to get
2:00.8	into to be able to burn fat. So those of you that
2:04.1	are trying to lose weight, this is really important because as you age, working out harder,
2:09.6	working out more doesn't mean you're going to burn fat more. So please pay close attention.
2:14.7	He's going to give you a formula that you can follow.
2:22.7	We also talked about strength training. Where does strength training and resistance training fit in? We also went into the endorphin rush. This one is going to blow your mind. It
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