Lex Fridman Podcast

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

Jul 29, 2021

03:06:51

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Maximal Function: The Best Way to Train for Endurance

01:24

Never Quit, Always Do More

01:04

How to Run a Hundred Miles

01:20

How Does Your Week Look Like?

01:17

Introduction

2min

Ladder Life Insurance

3min

How to Form Long-Term Habits

2min

Running an Ultramarathon

4min

Is There a Better Way to Let Go of Negativity?

4min

How Do You Deal With That Quit?

4min

Is It Good to Live Life by the Ethos of Never Quit?

5min

The Never Quit Mentality

2min

The Muscle of Never Quit Is More Important Than the Optimization of Your Training

5min

10.

Race Day

2min

11.

Running 100 Miles in the Treadmill

2min

12.

The Human Body Is Capable of Doing Its Job Well

2min

13.

Optimizing Over the Space of Variables

2min

14.

The Biggest Ultra Marathons Right Now

2min

15.

Is It Hard to Compare the Trails of the Ultra Marathons?

2min

16.

Optimizing for the 100-Mileer

3min

17.

The World Record Is 11 Hours in 100 Miles

2min

18.

Aiming for a Perfect Performance in a 100 Mile Segment

2min

19.

Is There a Computer Vision Algorithm That Counts Foot Strikes?

2min

20.

The Variability of Legs in the Human Body

2min

21.

Do You Want to Break a World Record?

3min

22.

The Most Beautiful Thing About Running

2min

23.

The Quality of Life From a Running Perspective

2min

24.

The Art Within Grappling

3min

25.

Optimum Training Processes

3min

26.

How to Build a Massive Aerobic Base

3min

27.

The Maximum Root Function Is Like 180 Minus Your Age

1min

28.

Is the Math 180 Formula a Good One?

2min

29.

Are You Doing Too Much Work?

2min

30.

How to Optimize Your Form and Efficiency in the Endurance World

2min

31.

Running for Me Is a Good Way to Get Competitive

3min

32.

Is There a Difference Between Ready-Made Plans and Personalized Coaching?

3min

33.

How Do You Figure Out How Far You Can Go in 12 Minutes?

2min

34.

Do I Need to Do the Time Trial?

3min

35.

Running a Marathon - I'm Going to Stick to a Diet of Carnivore

4min

36.

How to Measure Perceived Effort

3min

37.

Is There a Difference Between Marathon and 100 Miles?

4min

38.

Running Every Day Is Like Doing Something Unusual Every Day Yeah Periodically Yeah

4min

39.

The Importance of a Low Carbohydrate Diet in Training as an Ultra Marathon Runner

4min

40.

Do You Think It's Possible to Live a Happy Active Life Eating Meat?

2min

41.

How to Use Meat in High Performance

2min

42.

The Nutritional Shift Is the Biggest Thing

3min

43.

Carnivore Is a New Challenge to the Nutritional Community

3min

44.

The Ketogenic Diet Is a Part of a Ketogenic Diet

3min

45.

Asfule Life Bars Are Not as Low Carbohydrate You Know You Can Make Us Awesome Yeah Yeah Yeah

2min

46.

Ultramarathon Single Day Events

3min

47.

Do You Train Mostly Fasted?

2min

48.

The Benefits of Running Like a Minimalist

2min

49.

Alcohol Is a Good Way to Celebrate the Chaos of Life

3min

50.

Treadmill Running

2min

51.

The Treadmill Challenge With Bird Pressure

3min

52.

The Challenge of Running 2000 Miles

2min

53.

The Transcontinental Run Challenge

4min

54.

The Four Is Gum I'm Going to Document and Post Yeah

2min

55.

How Do You Train for This Kind of Thing?

2min

56.

The Importance of Strength Training

2min

57.

Do You Have a Two Day Sony Mount?

2min

58.

Do You Think It'll Be the Hardest Simulator Run Ever?

3min

59.

The Transcontinental Route - I Hate It Turning on the Camera

4min

60.

The Greatest Endurance Runner of All Time

3min

61.

Prefontaine

2min

62.

Ultramarathon

2min

63.

Prefontaine and the Olympic Games

2min

64.

Nike Ultra Marathon Running

3min

65.

Nike Prototypes Are a Big Thing in the Ultra Running Community

4min

66.

Is E-Sports in the Olympics?

3min

67.

Running a Two Hour Marathon Without Any Assistance

4min

68.

The Limits of the Ultra Marathon

2min

69.

The Struggle of Humanity

3min

70.

Is There Advice for High Schoolers College Students

3min

71.

You Know You Don't Need to Do It the Way Everyone Is Doing It

4min

Zach Bitter is an ultramarathon runner and coach. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:34) – The marathon mentality
(14:43) – The psychology of quitting
(25:49) – Variety in ultramarathons
(33:04) – What does it take to run 100 miles?
(38:27) – Leading ultramarathon events
(42:09) – Training and race strategy
(44:39) – 100 Mile world record
(48:41) – Foot strike variability and cadence
(51:29) – The 11 hour barrier
(54:57) – The most beautiful thing about running
(1:01:19) – Zach’s training regime
(1:06:06) – MAF 180 Formula
(1:16:31) – Training plans
(1:31:30) – Marathons vs. 100 miles
(1:40:31) – Zach’s diet philosophy
(1:55:19) – Fueling for race day
(2:02:34) – Training while fasted
(2:06:11) – Embracing the chaos
(2:07:41) – 100-Mile treadmill WR
(2:11:51) – The legend of Bert Kreischer
(2:16:16) – The Transcontinental Run across America
(2:33:51) – Who is the greatest endurance athlete of all time?
(2:41:04) – Shoe technology in running
(2:54:14) – Human limits
(2:56:49) – Zach’s biggest obstacles
(3:00:34) – Advice for young people

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

Maximal Function: The Best Way to Train for Endurance

Never Quit, Always Do More

How to Run a Hundred Miles

How Does Your Week Look Like?

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