Physiology Friday: How to Build a Killer Cardiovascular System w/ Dr. Mike T. Nelson, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis sit down with Anders coach, Dr. Mike T. Nelson.
For those that have followed the show, you know Anders has been in pursuit of running a sub-6 minute mile at the age of 40. Dr. Nelson is the coach Anders hired to help with that goal.
In this episode the crew walks through program design, initial intake, and execution of how to build cardiovascular fitness.
You will learn performance tests used to design Anders training program, how priorities are scheduled into a busy life, understanding higher intensity efforts mixed with Vo2Max training, Zone 2 efforts, and how to maintain strength throughout the process.
We hope you enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug Physiology Friday is back and today Dr. Michael T. Nelson |
| 0:06.4 | is coming in and we're going to be talking about one of the coolest years of training that I put in very |
| 0:12.4 | recently to get to a sub six minute mile which I didn't actually hit the goal. I went 617 and 619 back to |
| 0:20.5 | back. I realized that I have another year of banging an |
| 0:25.0 | air dine and the track and the pavement and I need to take a little break. But we dig into |
| 0:32.0 | understanding a lot of the energy systems and the training that goes into getting very fast today. And also Dr. Nelson is one of the energy systems and the training that goes into getting very fast today. And also, |
| 0:40.0 | Dr. Nelson is one of the advisors and coaches inside rapid health optimization. So if you enjoy |
| 0:46.1 | this show and would like to go through the same process, have some program design done by |
| 0:50.8 | coach Nelson. Highly recommend. Getting over to r to a ratae lab at dot com a |
| 0:55.1 | R-R-E-T-E-L-A-B dot com that is we can learn about all things labs lifestyle performance |
| 1:01.7 | testing coaching analysis and you can do all of that at R-T-A-Lab.com friends |
| 1:06.5 | Physiology Friday let's get into the show |
| 1:10.6 | welcome to barbell shugged I'm Anders Warner Doug Larson coach Travis smash Physiology Friday. Let's get into the show. |
| 1:13.9 | Welcome to Barbell Shrug. I'm Anders Warner. Doug Larson, coach, |
| 1:16.7 | Travis, Spash, Dr. Michael T. Nelson. |
| 1:23.0 | My coach on the show today on Barbell Shrug, we're talking about the most important person in the world, me and my most important thing, my training. Why I hired dr michael t nelson to get me to run a |
| 1:31.1 | sub six minute mile at the age of 40 years old which we still have that goal we still are going to |
| 1:36.4 | do that before april 26th of 2025 is that is that new ground for you by the way have you done sub six |
| 1:42.7 | in past i've never i've've run in my own training. |
| 1:47.8 | Oh, this is actually, we did a full show on this in the first quarter of COVID. |
| 1:56.4 | I remember. |
| 1:57.2 | The only place that you could go to socially distance and still do fitness was the track. |
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