Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Bitter.

And today I am joined by a guest for this episode.

His name is Matt Kerr.

Matt is a triathlete who I recently started

getting interested in following because he sort of burst onto the scene a bit with winning

the 30 to 34 year old age group world championship at the St. George Ironman just a couple

months ago. But what also made Matt intriguing to me was he follows a low carbohydrate diet and has

documented kind of his trajectory into the sport and where his fat oxidation rates kind

of have started at and where they are now.

So obviously he has the training component that is

going to be working towards those improvements, but also the dietary shift. And he most recently

produced a fat oxidation rate above 1.8 grams for minutes. So he is safe to say a fat burning

machine. And I wanted to hear about a variety of different things,

like what got him into triathlon in the first place coming from a background and swimming,

what a background in one of the three sports that are included in triathlon does to the way

you structure your training and your racing approach, do you lean on that event?

Or is it something that you can sort of ignore maybe a little more than the others?

I want to kind of get an idea of how he looks at that.

I also wanted to just hear how he structures his training, generally speaking, like what type

of approach is he taking when he decides at the beginning of a season or the beginning of a training block to structure the way he's preparing for the race.

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