I'm going to Welcome to the Huntback Country podcast. This is episode number 454 and our guest is Dr. Andy Galpin.

Andy is a human performance scientist with a PhD in human bioenergetics.

He's the co-director of the Center for Sport Performance. He's a tenured full-time professor at California State University of Fullerton and he has worked with elite athletes

across the UFC, Major League Baseball,

NBA, PGA, NFL, Boxing, Olympics,

the military special forces, and he's also a hunter.

And I didn't know that about Andy.

I'd heard Andy's name.

I had seen some of his content on YouTube.

I had heard him on podcasts.

And he has a ton of great information out there about human performance, training, nutrition, and more.

But I just heard this small little brief clip of him mentioning hunting, and that really caught my interest and so I reached out to

Andy and he was more than happy to come on the show to talk about some of his

professional expertise

and how that can pair with us as backcountry hunters.

So this is a fantastic episode.

I'm really excited to share with you guys.

We did ask you for listener questions before we

recorded this one and so some of the questions and topics that you guys submitted

and that we get into in this conversation have to do with training, nutrition, and supplementation

strategies for hunting at higher elevations.

We talk about the metrics from wearable devices such as smart watches and if they are reliable and beneficial.

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