Optimise Your Exercise | Podcast #34

Optimise Your Exercise | Podcast #34

Author: Pete Jacobs March 11, 2021 Duration: 17:38
Hi, Pete here. If you are familiar with Live Your Own Fit Coaching or myself you will know that I have spent over 2 decades as a professional endurance athlete. In this episode you will learn how to optimise your training and exercise for the end goal you desire. I will share how to approach your training either as a fat adapted or sugar dependant athlete, the health and longevity outcomes of both and how this effects race day results.  This podcast episode is ideal for you anyone that exercises, from a weekend warrior to a high performing elite athlete and all in between.  Contact me at hello@liveyourownfit.com to learn how I can mentor and coach you to your health and performance goals.  WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER The difference between a fat burning athlete and sugar dependant athlete How to become fat burning as an endurance athlete  What VO2 Max training is Hormonal pathways that are activated as a fat burning athlete Health and longevity benefits of a fat adapted athlete v’s a sugar dependant athlete  Approaches to tapering before race day  How to train for what you want on race day!    FEATURED ON THE SHOW  Pete Jacobs |Co Founder of  LYF Performance Coaching | LYF Performance Coach | World Champion Athlete  LY.F Performance Coaching Program 

Finding a sustainable path to better health often feels like navigating a maze of conflicting advice. Live Your Own Fit | LYF Performance cuts through that noise with grounded conversations led by Pete Jacobs, a World Ironman Triathlon Champion, and his wife Jaimielle. This isn't just about extreme athleticism; it's about the practical, balanced choices that build a resilient life. You'll hear discussions that connect the dots between nutrition, daily movement, and the mental frameworks needed to stick with it. Pete naturally draws from his own journey to the pinnacle of endurance sports, not to prescribe a champion's regimen, but to share the broader lessons on mindset and perseverance that apply to anyone. The podcast operates on the principle that true fitness is deeply personal-it's the energy to keep up with your kids, the clarity to focus at work, and the vitality to enjoy your days. Each episode offers a blend of personal anecdotes, actionable lifestyle tips, and thoughtful dialogue aimed at helping you define what performance means in your own life. Tune in for a refreshingly honest take on building health from the ground up, where the goal is lasting well-being, not just a temporary fix.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 57

Live Your Own Fit | LYF Performance
Podcast Episodes
Uplevel Your Massage [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:52
What do you and elite athletes have in common? You both need to build familiarity with being relaxed, and build awareness to be able to tap into the feeling of being relaxed. You should be getting massages more often; to…
Carbohydrate | Pros & Cons [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:20
The main point to remember throughout this podcast is that everyone has a different level of aerobic capacity, and everyday one individual can have a better/worse aerobic capacity [tolerance to carbohydrates]. Everyone i…
How to Run Slow to Run Fast [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:08
Stop wasting your time running without knowing exactly how to improve. If your running still needs improvement after listening to this episode [and to my previous podcast on technique linked below], then it is time to se…
How to Improve Sleep for Health & Performance [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:57
Sleep expert Devin Burke shares secrets to improve your sleep, and therefore improve your health and performance. If you have trouble with insomnia, or feel like you should have more energy, or your health or performance…
Growth or Fear. Creation or Protection. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:47
Jaimielle and Pete have a great discussion that will uncover some of your underlying roadblocks to living your best life, in health and performance. Is your state of mind, or physical state, holding you back from making…
Training a Competitive Mindset [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:07
If you only train in a certain way, with a particular mindset to practice being "present, calm and confident" does that mean you will find it hard to do anything but that same response in competition? In this episode I t…
Aerobic Health & Performance | How To Improve It? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:37
If you have ever done ANYTHING to follow lifestyle improvements, breathing or mindset techniques, ANYTHING that is considered a healthier choice (by me haha) you are unknowingly doing something to either increase oxygen…
Why Muscles Cramp [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:18
An original look at WHY MUSCLES CRAMP, by Ironman World Champion & Health/Performance Coach Pete Jacobs. Driven by passion to understand his fatigue and health issues he had encountered since his teenage years, Pete has…
Breathe Less | Live Longer | Niraj Naik Interview [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:43
This episode has special guest Niraj Naik, who is a leading breathwork teacher, and highly regarded health practitioner. He has some very interesting information on the importance of building carbon dioxide tolerance, wh…