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Hey, Power at the Nation. I want you to buckle up. I have a badass podcast in store for you with Parker Spencer.

He's USA Triathlon's coach. And the things he's doing with lactate and more importantly, testing

are really pushing the paradigm for performance. I'm excited and want to extend this conversation

with lactate. So we're going to get deep and understand how he's using this to effectively make

the most dominant triathlon team on the Olympic landscape. So buckle up, Mr. Parker Spencer.

One of my big goals is to make sure that I'm on the forefront of where technology and

exercise science is and make sure that, like, if we're doing things an innovative way, then a lot of

these guys who've been doing this for 30 years that I'm competing

against like my my athletes will eventually surpass theirs because a lot of those guys don't

want to adapt they don't want to like know what the the newest and greatest thing is out there

they just want to do what's worked for them and and continue doing what they've done for 30 years.

Which if you're not making moves to move forward or, you know, implementing different

things to try to keep them progressing, you're effectively going backwards.

100%. Yeah. Absolutely.

Yeah, we, I mean, I can give you the whole backstory on kind of how we got. Yeah, I, I do. I love origin stories. So the one thing with this podcast has really been built on is, you know, not only highlighting the amazing work, but like, you know, and I want to get into VO2 max and lactate threshold. And, you know, I'm really fascinated too with lactate clearance rates and do all that stuff and how you guys, you know, especially in like three different modalities. I mean, you know, to be able to swim and then go get on the bike. And now you're, you know, talking about all this just concentric push and not eccentric load, but then getting off the bike or and then going into the run, which is predominantly a centric load. So I'm really fascinated by it, but I'd love to get into the

origin and more importantly understand where he came from and how you got to this

point. Yeah, for sure. So I mean, I've been doing this now. I think like 13,

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