Dr. Alyssa Olenick
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Everyone cares about the mitochondria, right?
Yes, and inside the muscle.
But you can think of the mitochondria as the little engines in the muscle.
Like my whole
You know, to put a pause on it, my whole approach to hybrid training is like build the car with the lifting and then build the engine with the cardio.
Like that's the way I think about it.
So the more you have of these mitochondria, the better you are at being a fat burner or fat oxidizer.
And that is positive adaptation for metabolic health.
Totally.
And
Aerobic cardiovascular output, right?
So, like I know you guys talked about on that last podcast metabolic flexibility.
That was my whole dissertation topic, actually, was metabolic flexibility.
And it's essentially like, can you switch between carbs and fats when it's necessary, right?
Burning carbs isn't inherently a bad thing.
It's just about are you burning them when you could be using fat or at the wrong time at rest, right?
Like that's not a positive adaptation.
But the more you train, the more you're able to increase your fat oxidation at higher intensities.
So you can sustain a faster pace, a faster power output, a spa faster speed, and still be using fat oxidation, which is good because then you're not depleting relying on carbohydrate.
Those elite runners, and we keep coming back to them, the point of which they can metabolize fat still or their lactate threshold is so close to their VOT max, right?
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