MARK SISSON

“if you're going to be doing a long slog up a hill or you know climbing you know 12 000 feet over a period of 80 mile ride you want to be able to drive most of that energy from stored body fat I can teach you how to do that but it's going to take you retraining your body to build more mitochondria we call it mitochondrial biogenesis”

“it may cost you a season this adaptation right you may get to the point where after one year of doing this you've refined all of your ability to derive this new energy source to store body fat so that now you're getting 92 percent of your energy at say four watts per kilogram or three watts per kilogram from fat where you used to only get 60 or 70”

“it was really the inflammatory diet that I had taken on to fuel all those miles it was really causing the issue so I had arthritis in my feet had tendonitis in my hips I had irritable bowel syndrome that really ran my life I mean I had to kind of orchestrate my day based around where the nearest bathroom was”