Hello and welcome to The Progress Theory, where we discuss how to implement scientific principles to optimise human performance. I am Dr Phil Price, and in today's episode, we have sports physiologist and coach Evan Peikon.
Evan is back on the podcast, and this time we're discussing his work with NNOXX, where he is a co-founder. NNOXX is a NIRS device that measures muscle oxygenation and saturation and is the first to ever measure nitric oxide non-invasively. In this episode, we discuss the physiological determinants of hybrid athlete performance and how we can use NNOXX to inform our hybrid training.
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In this episode, we discuss:
- 0:55 - Introduction
- 2:55 - The importance of writing for learning and creativity
- 11:23 - Evan’s Book ‘Paradigm Shift’.
- 14:01 - What is NNOXX?
- 19:46 - The physical determinants of a hybrid/tactical athlete
- 31:15 - Physiological limiters of elite Crossfit Performance
- 38:02 - Using Data from NNOXX to improve training performance
- 45:15 - Keeping training simple.
- 49:29 - Using NNOXX to guide interval training
- 1:00:2 - The Importance of progressing slowly with Hybrid training
- 1:06:21 - Evan’s Training
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