Welcome back to the Jordan Science mini podcast. Thank you so much for listening. I'm not going to waste your time with a super long or drawn out introduction because this episode is one of my favorite episodes of all time.

I speak with the owner of complete human performance Alex Vieta, one of the smartest guys in the entire fitness industry. I've learned a ton from him over the years and we dive deep into the science of cardio, zone two cardio.

I'm going to discuss all of the zones for that matter how you can implement them into your training to get the most out of your workouts. So your heart improves, your heart health improves, your performance improves. This podcast I literally just finished recording it and I'm over the moon excited for you to hear it. So I'm going to stop talking. Let's get into the episode.

All right Alex, where are live man? How's it going? Jordan really good man really good to talk to you again. It's been a while.

It's been a very long time now. Now before we begin I always want to make sure I think you're amazing. You're an incredible incredible coach, amazing athlete, one of the most intelligent people in the industry. Before we begin, I want everyone to have the chance to be able to follow you on whatever social media platforms you have. Could you just tell them where they can follow you?

Sure, yeah, first of all, appreciate the kind of words man, seriously. I'm on Instagram easiest place to follow me Alex dot Viata and my company complete human performance. We've we both got Instagram's up. I usually focus on Q&As. My company usually tries to put up infographics, summarized a lot of my coursework. So those are the two best places.

I love it. All right, so man, I've been very excited for this for this conversation for a long time. I've learned a lot from you over the years. I'll start off by saying the main thing I want to talk about in this podcast with you is energy system development energy system training.

Especially for just the everyday individual right just for the average population. I do want you to give an intro to yourself just like an unbelievable athlete in every way shape and form and one of the smartest people have ever interacted with and learned from.

Could you just give an introduction to yourself who you are what you do and some of the crazy athletic feats that you've done like it's really it's it's beyond what most people would even fathom as possible. So just give an introduction to yourself so people can get to know you better.

Sure, yeah, no, again, like I said, I really appreciate that kind of words from somebody who is literally knows pretty much everybody. So it means a lot.

Yeah, no, so my name is Alex Viyada. Let's see, I've been in fitness and in the industry for got close to 20 years now off and on. I went to school background is a biochemistry I worked in clinical research for about 10 years.

Quit that because it was sucking my soul away and you know kind of got it a fitness and started online coaching and all of that.

And so I was politically I started you know one of these guys who played every sport there was in high school and enjoyed everything was constantly active went to college kind of lost it all you know because I was really athletic and really enjoyed playing a lot of different sports.

But when I got to college I was going to a D1 school I went to Duke and I couldn't play any of them at the level that anybody else did.

And that would happen to a lot of people I think you know when they go from active youth and suddenly dropping it all I still had the appetite of somebody who you know exercise for four or five hours a day.

But not the activity so I gained a heck of a lot of weight.

You know, because when you're when you're a kid and when you know you you've got football practice and then you go home and you've got swimming in the morning you got like kind of you're just you're just a garbage disposal you're eating everything inside.

And I still kind of did that you know is eating dominoes deep dish pizzas every night and it was it was a bad scene.

So you know I I dieted I lost it all I went a little too far but then I got back into lifting I said okay I'm going to do this athletic thing.

So for a couple years I was just lifting and really enjoying the process really enjoyed getting strong having something to vote myself to and realized a couple years into it had a health scare actually in my family.

My grandfather had multiple multiple bypass surgeries and yeah and it was actually around that time that you know my dad started taking care of his health a little bit looking a lot of his blood work and we were really.

It was kind of a reminder that you know heart disease and all of that really kind of ran in my family on both sides and you know here I was feeling healthy and doing a lot of lifting but realizing you know what I should probably be doing a little more heart health type of stuff.

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