Dr. Andy Galpin

There is no way to fully metabolize carbohydrate without oxidation.

You just can't, right?

Like you can run through and we can do it.

It's probably not the most interesting thing, but you can't get very far anaerobically with even carbohydrate.

You have to finish that story aerobically.

Does that mean your fuel in the exercise itself is the same as the total net expenditure?

No.

So in the case of Marty's work and higher intensity stuff, yeah, in the actual exercise bout itself, you're going to be well above anaerobic threshold.

You're going to be well above an RER of 1.0, right?

You're going to get really, really high.

In fact, we have seen many times 1.3s, 1.4s, right, for RERs or RQs.

That's mathematically impossible.

1.0 means 100%.

So what you mean is like the carbon dioxide expenditure is so exceeding aerobic or oxidative intake that your numbers get like astronomically high.

So yes, but that said, anything you just burn there that's sitting either in lactate or in pyruvate or some other intermediate form there, it's going to be finished in the mitochondria with oxidation.

You wanna recover faster?

and I'm talking about within the minutes to hours post-exercise, as well as couple of days, now this is an aerobic capacity issue.

That's how you handle these things.

For our athletes that fight in five, five-minute rounds, like in the UFC, or we do 12 rounds in boxing, whatever the case is, there is a huge aerobic component to that.

Huge, despite the fact that they are going as hard as possible.