Show Notes: 

In this episode of the OFM podcast, Peter Defty sits down with elite age-group triathlete and coach Colin Cook to explore the transformative power of OFM for peak endurance performance. Colin shares his personal journey from unhealthy habits to becoming one of the top amateur triathletes in the world—all while balancing a demanding career, family life, and coaching responsibilities.

Key Takeaways:

✅ Breaking the High-Carb Myth: How OFM offers a superior alternative that significantly reduces the massive amounts of sugar used in the current hyper high carb approach while yielding improved performance and health outcome in training, competition and Life!

✅ Fat Adaptation for Performance & Recovery: How Colin maximizes fat metabolism for sustainable energy and faster recovery while ‘Strategically’ using carbohydrates for performance..

✅ Lessons from Ironman Success: Insights from Colin’s top performances, including his Amateur & AG winning, sub-9-hour finish at Ironman Lake Placid and competing at the Kona Ironman World Championships, where Colin  finished 1st American in his AG in spite of having a hernia.

✅ The Role of Exogenous Ketones: Colin and Peter discuss how exogenous ketones can be used for recovery and sleep for all athletes like the Pro Cyclists. What is novel is that OFM/VESPA athletes are successfully microdosing exogenous ketones as part of their in race nutrition for mental clarity and endurance.

✅ Training Smarter, Not Harder: Why metabolic health matters for both the short and long term which is why OFM offers competitive Age-Groupers a way to train sustainably and in balance with other aspects of their lives.

✅ The Long-Term Game: How OFM avoids burnout and maintains endurance fitness for life.

Listen or watch the full episode to discover:

🎯 How Colin strategically reduced his carb intake without sacrificing speed.🎯 The unexpected benefits of OFM—beyond just racing.🎯 The optimal way to integrate and use ketones and carbs for performance fueling.🎯 Shifting the paradigm of recovery to proactively mitigating cellular & mitochondrial damage from burning a lot of sugar.