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Hey, everyone.

Today I spoke with Dr. Mikey Nelson.

He's been on the podcast now maybe five, six times.

And he is, in my opinion, one of the smartest guys in the space of exercise, exercise science,

and really translating academic exercise research into application.

And there was one pearl here that I really want to point you to.

The short of it is, it seems that cardiovascular deconditioning is fairly

common in our population. And this may actually lead people to have a poor ability to recover

from exercise, from stress, and it may also lead them to be more

sympathetic because their body has to work too hard all the time because they don't have a

low enough resting heart rate. It makes it harder for them to recover because their engine is running

just a little bit too high all of the time because the cardiovascular conditioning at baseline

isn't where it should be.

This is something that I myself noticed, if you remember, I've remarked that training with

Mike really helped me

improve my exercise tolerance. I thought it was predominantly just this gradual increased volume

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