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#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

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Do You Train Mostly Fasted?

I like to train on an empty stomach I do most my my biggest training session usually in the morning and it usually what'll determine whether I eat something or not before that is like how much 20 to eat that day. water and maybe some salt for longer runs for anything over like 10 15 miles but not no foodYeah I think uh in in if I were if I were doing what you're doing like if that were my lifestyle I think I would do almost all my runs fasted. If absolute peak performance in one activity isn't your goal then it's like do you really care if one has a two percent performance increase that you won't even probably notice because there's other variables that will

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