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Maximising Hybrid Training Using Physiological Data with Evan Peikon

Feb 19, 2024

Sports physiologist Evan Peikon discusses the importance of NNOXX in measuring muscle oxygenation and nitric oxide for hybrid athlete performance. Topics include physiological determinants, elite Crossfit performance, interval training guidance, and the slow progression of hybrid training.

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Muscle oxygenation monitoring optimizes training intensity for athletes.

Personalized muscle-based training zones improve interval training effectiveness.

Adopting a muscle oxygenation-driven approach enhances precision in athletic training.

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Utilizing Muscle Oxygenation for Training Intensity Guidance

Monitoring muscle oxygenation levels can provide valuable insights into training intensities for athletes. Unlike heart rate, muscle oxygenation measurements can capture rapid changes in intensity, making it more responsive to fluctuations during exercise. This allows athletes to adjust their efforts in real-time, ensuring they remain within their target intensity zones. By maintaining specific muscle oxygenation ranges, athletes can effectively regulate their training intensity and optimize their workout outcomes, offering a more precise and tailored approach to interval training.

Introduction

2min

Exploring Ventures and Challenges in Sports Technology and Publishing

12min

Tracking Nitric Oxide Levels with Knox Wearable Device

17min

Optimizing Training and Physiological Support for Performance Growth

3min

Respiratory Limitations and Performance Effects on Athletes

16min

Optimizing Athletic Performance through Muscle Oxygenation Monitoring

19min

Balancing Work and Training, Scheduling Strategies, and NOCS Information

2min

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.

As always, follow and like The Progress Theory on Instagram and YouTube. So here is Evan Peikon

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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The Science of Hybrid Training

It was originally thought that you could not effectively train for both strength and endurance at the same time because they required different adaptations which were not compatible with each other. It was claimed that ‘an interference effect’, blunted the adaptations for strength if you simultaneously trained for endurance. However, recent developments in sports which require both strength and endurance have really challenged this idea, with hybrid athletes producing impressive performances in both strength and endurance sports together. This had led scientists, coaches, and athletes to rethink what is humanly possible and suggests the interference effect is not as influential as originally thought. But what is a hybrid athlete? What is the ‘interference effect’? And how can we maximize our training to improve at the same time our strength and endurance performance? In this book, Dr Phil Price provides insight into the misconceptions surrounding strength and endurance training by distilling the past 50 years of research and drawing on the conversations he had with great scientists, coaches, and athletes on The Progress Theory podcast. This book is essential reading for hybrid athletes and coaches who are looking to understand the key training variables and their effect on the simultaneous development of strength and endurance performance.

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