* Excited to now have Pete and Kristian coaching, mentoring and educating me☕
I will start this post by acknowledging the people who have been so gracious with there time, advice and support over the last few months. I won’t name them but I reached out to a number of coaches trying to get a good feel of both what they offer and what I needed! This was an interesting process to explain my situation, goals and intentions for the future as it firstly revealed how disconnected from them I was and how confused of the path I’d become.
That said each person I spoke with was supportive and most importantly not judgemental, in fact all provided great, honest advice! There are some amazing tri TEAMs and clubs out there who offer not just training but a community which is great for the sport. That all said in the end I connected with a coach, club and community that shares my goals and lifestyle commitments.
After a day long invasion of his house about a month ago , I have started working with Pete Lever from http://www.trispecific.com with a number of goals, the main one being regain HEALTH! Pete and Kristian Manietta have been an amazing and generous resource for those looking to delve into not only LCHF diet but lifestyle as well, reinforcing the importance of longevity and movement patterns.
The idea of having a coach that lives so close and shares so many belief’s about training yet goes about it much more strategic than myself is exciting. After a good month off, Pete has definitely got me at a challenging time as my natural reaction now is to train, train, train, especially with Sunny Coast 70.3 just around the corner.
That said I have had to check the ego at the door, take off the blinkers and really look long term as this journey seems to contain two main lessons for me; Patience and more patience!
After a really good break post Cairns IM including a month out of the pool, I have to remain realistic about my current abilities. That said, thanks to Pete I’m training on a different level already and can see the light at the end of the tunnel getting brighter each week….
jarrodowen 
Amen!
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the SERIOUS Training book I have from the 90’s talks about HFLC, we also know that Mark Allen used it with Dr Phil Maffetone. In my personal opinion, and what I’ve read over the last couple of years, I believe in a whole-foods plant based diet primarily for life-longevity and recovery within training vs choosing a diet to truly enable better performance being the #1 goal. Personally, I feel the HFLC is a bunch of bull. I know it’s working for people out there and I know it’s worked in the past. Only in the last few weeks have I been able to make a comparison.
There are ppl with fast twitch who are just fast, like you. While I am predominately slow twitch. I can work and train to gain more fast twitch muscle fibers but I believe I will always be slower than you for the difference in our physiology. Similarly, some people are just thin while others put on weight easily. This is due to their built in metabolism and how they burn fat. While we can promote this metabolism through dietary-timing and eating more fat than carbs, an increase may be generated, but that person who puts on weight easily or has more muscle mass etc (again me), will never be able to have the thin structure of other people (like yourself).
In the end, while we can slide the distribution scale of fat vs carbohydrate usage to fuel our training, I think that really just comes by becoming more economical through proper training. And ultimately, we have no choice in where out fat is stored, or what % we are fueling our training with. But we are always using some fat and some carbs.
I’ve gone through many different phases in my nutritional journey as well but I believe that we should be focused as best we can on eating real food with minimally added processed fats, oils, and salt that is built around plants – the message of The China Study.
All the best in your journey! So great of you to have a supportive network!
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Mate, I totally agree! When I talk about HFLC it is definitely based around whole foods and through trial and ERROR 👊 found that eating predominantly vego with fish/chicken from reliable sources is best. It is 100% individual and should be simple, yet human nature adds complexity.
I have a number of allergies which make it even more fun! That said I think as long as we are sharing and learning from these experiences its never wrong just another building block.
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