Brady Holmer

You can still get stronger, improve your exercise performance while not improving your VO2 max.

So it's for that reason, I think that athletes sometimes don't

Just think about explicitly training their VO2 max.

Many elite athletes might not even know what their VO2 max is because they don't care.

They just really care about how fast they're running.

But then, of course, athletes should be concerned about increasing their VO2 max, not only for the health reasons that you just mentioned, you know, it's associated with longevity, which is great.

You want to avoid that decline with age and maintain it as long as possible.

But again, you know, you can see significant improvements when you do improve your VO2 max, which can be thought of as your ceiling.

You know, if you move your ceiling up, everything below that is going to improve.

So short answer to that would be, yeah, athletes look to improve their VO2 max.

Among the highest people, the highest VO2 maxes, it might not be as much of a concern, but people are all still interested.

You know, athletes and non-athletes alike are interested in improving their VO2 max.

I'm like, yeah.

You can certainly do that by using high intensity interval training.

I mean, you're producing a lot of lactate during high intensity interval training, so you're inherently going to help improve your lactate clearance capacity.

Doing what would be called kind of steady state or threshold workouts is kind of one way to do that, where you're exercising at that point where

lactate levels are just above kind of the steady state so you're working on you know where lactate production equals lactate clearance doing those type of what would be called lactate threshold workouts that seems to obviously be a good way to improve your lactate clearance capacity and then there are others who would argue or say you know i think there's decent evidence to support that something like zone 2 training also improves your lactate clearance capacity so

You can do all different types of training.

And we're going to talk about low, moderate and high intensity training and why all of those integrating all of those is important.

But primarily the main way to do that is going to be doing like steady state type and high intensity interval training workouts.