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Season 5 Ep 5 — Dynamic Loading, Physiological Testing and Effective Range With Gordo Byrn

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Lactate Testing in a Comeback

In 2000, I left my job in private equity in Hong Kong and went over to New Zealand. In Christchurch is a doctor called Dr. John Heliments who's a multiple world age group champion in triathlon. And he had coached world champions and six different disciplines - now he's coached seven different Olympians. He taught me lactate testing. Back then, if you had a power meter and you knew how to lactate test, you were so far ahead of everybody,. because everybody else was training basically blind all they had was old school polar heart rate monitor. They just had feel they had no idea what was happening internally in their bodies. Today we know so much more about lact

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