Why Running *Isn't* The Best Way To Get Fit, How The Running Craze HARMED Fitness Enthusiasts & Why Walking Is Essential To Health & Longevity, With Mark Sisson.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The romanticized notion that humans are "born to run" has buoyed the so-called running boom of the past 50 years: well-intentioned fitness enthusiasts lacing up their cushioned shoes and plodding down roads and trails in pursuit of the runner's high, a trim physique, and the fountain of youth.
Unfortunately, "born to run" is a big, fat ruse—a marketing gimmick and a gross misappropriation of evolutionary biology's insights into Homo sapiens' genetic attributes for endurance. While any movement away from a sedentary-dominant lifestyle is laudable, the truth is that humans are actually born to walk, not run.
Ready to get fitter, leaner, and stronger than ever without the pain, suffering, and sacrifice of the typical approach to endurance training?
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast, most people who go out the door, put on their shoes, go out and they're running at a heart rate that's above their fat max. Their heart rate is too high to be burning fat efficiently, so they're mostly burning glycogen. Their heart rate is too low to be generating any sort of a shift in VO2 max or anaerobic threshold or power. |
| 0:22.7 | So it's this all you're doing is practicing hurting every day and not getting better. |
| 0:28.1 | You're not performing better as a result of all of this wasted junk miles that you're doing |
| 0:32.7 | at the wrong heart rate. |
| 0:34.0 | So most people would be so much better off walking a lot more. Welcome to the |
| 0:39.0 | boundless life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologists, |
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