Podcast Episode #9: MUFA’s and Recovery

Ben Greenfield (0:02)

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Hey, podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield, and on today's podcast, I'm going to be interviewing Jerry White, who is going to share some new information with us on recovery and how we can enhance recovery with some fairly nontraditional methods that I was unfamiliar with prior to talking with Jerry. I also want to tell you about some new content that's up this week at bengreenfieldfitness.com, and also feature another listener question and answer section.

And this question focuses on the topic of MUFAs, what a MUFA actually is, and how it might come in handy for us from a performance or weight loss standpoint. So without any further ado, let's go ahead and dive right into the content today at bengreenfieldfitness.com.

New content at bengreenfieldfitness.com this week. The first thing is that I've put up another workout of the week video, and this one utilizes a resistance band called the JC, All Purpose Resistance Training Band, and you can get that. I show you how on the actual blog posting. But you can get that straight from my website. And I use this band when I'm training my clients and when I'm training myself to achieve two different types of results. The first is for muscle toning, when you don't really want to get a muscle sore, but you want to achieve a lot of time under tension for that muscle without a lot of the tearing effect that can occur with weightlifting. Resistance training bands offer a great way to do high rep, low resistance toning style training. So great for fat loss and toning. And then the other thing that I'll use a resistance band for is when I can't get to the pool, when I've only got, say, a 10-minute window, and I need to get the equivalent of a kick butt swim workout in.

And that's really the focus of the workout that I show this week at bengreenfieldfitness.com. So check that out. Remember, it is for swim conditioning, but this would also be a great workout for general arm toning.

Another thing that I did is I've put up part of, on Ben Greenfield Fitness, part of the website now that mentions all the discount codes that I talk about in this podcast. So you can start to go and get some of these without actually memorizing them, even though I know all my listeners have a mind like a steel trap. Go to bengreenfieldfitness.com/discount, and you'll be able to check out the products that are supporting this website, the discount codes, and then what exactly I recommend those products for, things like the cherry juice and the action wipes. And all that type of content will continue to grow as we get more and more supporters of bengreenfieldfitness.com giving the listeners special codes.

And, in addition to that, I had someone ask me about the TN Sunglass link on the right hand side of the page at Ben Greenfield Fitness. And TN Sunglasses are basically the super light sports performance sunglasses that I use for triathlon. They are literally like air on your face. You can't even tell that you're wearing them. And these are the sunglasses that are probably best known for being the ones from Switzerland that you can tie into a knot without them actually breaking. So they're very, very durable. I've stepped on my sunglasses. I've dropped them when I'm riding my bike. I've sat on them in the seat of the car. And they are simply indestructible. They're very, very high quality polarized lenses. If you're looking for a $7 cheapo Walmart brand sunglass, this one's probably not for you. These are a little bit higher end type of optics that are high performance and very, very high in durability. So check out the TN Sunglass link on the side of the page there. And finally, I'd also like to announce the brand new forum page of Ben Greenfield Fitness. And I put up this page for two reasons. One is so that if you're not putting comments on the blog postings, you can also have discussions on this forum at bengreenfieldfitness.com/forum. Now, there are two different sections to the forum. One is to discuss anything related to the content that I put out on the site related to whatever, nutrition, exercise, triathlon, wellness, diet, whatever you'd like to start up in terms of discussion. The other thing that's on there is an FAQ section. And while this is primarily for the people that I coach online for personal training in nutrition and the people that I coach for triathlon, to ask questions to me, and so we can start to actually keep records of questions so people can go back and see some of the commonly asked or frequently asked questions. The other thing that you can use is for us to ask questions to be featured on the weekly podcast. So you can always shoot me an email, ben at bengreenfieldfitness.com, to ask me a question. But you can also go to that FAQ section, post a question, and we'll start to get a running tally of the questions that have been asked and the answers from me. So that's all the content today from bengreenfieldfitness.com.