s3/e20 Muscle Fatigue & What Causes It with Dr. Phil Batterson, PhD (@criticalO2)
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🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What is fatigue? What causes it? What can we do to improve our fatigue resistance? Exercise physiologist Dr. Phil Batterson, PhD (@criticalO2) joins the show today for a deep dive into the science of muscle fatigue in endurance athletes!
- What is "fatigue" and why does it happen?
- How your muscles and your mitochondria work
- How can we develop FATIGUE RESISTANCE to become better endurance athletes?
- Understanding the limits of our aerobic endurance and anaerobic endurance
- ...and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.2 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.6 | If you're a new runner or you or even doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.1 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. My guest this week is |
| 0:26.6 | exercise physiologist Dr. Phil Batterson. Phil's an avid endurance athlete himself and recently |
| 0:32.0 | received his PhD in human bioenergetics from Oregon State University where his primary focus was |
| 0:37.2 | studying mitochondria and how exercise remodels are mitochondria. in bioenergetics from Oregon State University, where his primary focus was studying |
| 0:37.6 | mitochondria and how exercise remodels our mitochondria, which is the perfect area of |
| 0:43.9 | concentration to dive into our subject today, which is fatigue. What is fatigue? Why do we get |
| 0:49.5 | fatigued? What can we do to improve our fatigue resistance as endurance athletes? |
| 0:54.8 | Which is kind of like the number one focus of most training cycles. |
| 0:59.4 | How can I go for longer? |
| 1:01.7 | How can I go faster for longer? |
| 1:03.6 | How can I keep getting better? |
| 1:05.8 | Primarily has to do with your ability to improve your resistance to fatigue. |
| 1:10.7 | We're talking about all of that today, |
| 1:12.3 | but before we get started, do not forget. While I know these podcast episodes are jam-packed full of |
| 1:18.1 | information, I know a ton of you find extreme benefit just from listening and applying some of the |
| 1:22.5 | things that you learn in your own training. If you're looking for actual training plans, |
| 1:26.4 | training support, training guidance, or for a deep dive on specific topics about how to train specifically for |
| 1:31.6 | your race, running explained, I got you covered. Whether you're looking for a self-coached option, |
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