Podcast Episode #28: What’s the Deal With Dairy?

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Podcast, episode number 28 from bengreenfieldfitness.com.

Welcome to the bengreenfieldfitness.com podcast. My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm a certified personal trainer, nutritionist, and exercise physiologist. Each week, I'll be bringing you cutting edge fitness, diet, and wellness content to help you reach your goals. So whether you're an Ironman triathlete, or you're just trying to shed a few pounds, grab that MP3 player, put on your exercise gear, and listen in to this week's podcast.

Hey, podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield, and we're right in the middle of the holiday season. So I'm full of good cheer, and I'm gonna start off today's podcast with some discount codes before I get on to our interview that's all about the dangers of dairy with Paul Eastwood. And he's full of good information, and he has a great accent, so you're gonna wanna stick around for that interview. But as far as the discount codes, I know you might be putting on your running shoes, hopping on your bike, or maybe picking up a bar at the gym, but pause for just a second, grab a pencil or a pen, and I'll wait for a brief moment for you to do that.

Okay, that's long enough. Here are some of the discount codes that have been in previous podcasts, but I wanted to review them for you, and I've got a brand new one that you're really gonna dig.

So, right off the bat, the thing that a lot of my clients are using to get in great shape, especially in these winter months when some of them are stuck in doors, a great portable exercise tool. It's called the GymStick. I've talked about it before. I've got some exercise videos of me doing workouts with it at bengreenfieldfitness.com, but you can get it for $10 off by using the discount code GYMSTICK. It's important that you write that in all caps, caps lock, but it's GYMSTICK, and I'll put a link in the show notes where you can get your hands on one of those.

They're 79 bucks normally, so $10 is a good, significant discount code for you on that. Now, there's also using the discount code BGF for any of you Ironman triathletes out there, two Ironman training plans that I've written. One for Ironman Coeur d'Alene that's set to begin January 1st, and one for My Ironman Canada that's set to begin January 1st. If you are signed up for or you're a triathlete who's competing in either of those events, you're gonna wanna check out these training plans.

As a coach, my philosophy is that you should spend a lot of your time in quality training. Most of us don't have the time to train as much as the pros do, and so we have to do some proprietary things in terms of intervals and heart rate zones and things that allow us to get the most bang for our buck out of the training time that we do have available. I've written those training plans with that in mind, and you can automatically get $20 off either of those training plans by using the discount code BGF. I'll also put a link to those in the show notes.

Now, I know that everybody that listens to this podcast is not a triathlete, but I'm gonna give out one more triathlon discount code. If you live in the Northwest and you're a triathlete and you're familiar with the Triathlon Northwest Race Series, that's at trinw.com, I'm offering a training plan to get you ready for any of those races. And you can view those at the link that I'll put in the show notes, but the discount code to get those, if you're a Triathlon Northwest member, is available to you by simply contacting Triathlon Northwest. And it'll get you $20 off any training plan for Blue Lake, Pacific Crest, Black Diamond. So if you're in the Northwest, the Pacific Northwest, I've got training plans for a lot of those races that are available to you. Okay, I know this is a really long intro, but I'm not done yet, because the best question this week, that means in the space between December 29th and January 6th, the best listener question that I receive, either in my email box, ben at bengreenfieldfitness.com, or in a comment on the blog, I'm gonna give away a free premium subscription to Training Peaks. Now, if you're not familiar with Training Peaks, it is the online training software that I use to coach all the athletes that I train, as well as some of the clients that I work with for personal training. And you can read more about that at trainingpeaks.com. I'll put a link to that in the show notes, but that is a $50 value for a three-month subscription to Training Peaks, and basically it's something that you can use to plan out your training year, to write out workout calendars, have access to detailed daily workouts, exercise photos and videos, and that is all gonna be free. I'm literally gonna give you a code that you can go type in on the website, and bam, you're in. All you have to do is ask the best question this week, and I will feature it on the podcast, keeping you completely anonymous, of course, but you will be awarded that free subscription.