Dr. Andy Galpin

So I hope that suffices as a small apology for all of you heart experts and aficionados out there.

Okay, so let me wind the story back just a little bit so I can set the stage appropriately and you'll understand why I felt the way I did.

Coming out of high school, I knew I was interested in sport performance.

And so I actually wanted to go to college to learn more about the physiology and science of performance.

But those programs really didn't exist.

And so I remember being taken on recruiting visits and they would ask kind of about your academic interests.

And I would say that and they'd say, well, we have an athletic training program, which is really injury prevention and treatment and management and stuff like that.

Or we've got pre-med and I didn't want to do that.

And really the only kind of exercise physiology programs involved exercise, but it was really more public health, disease prevention, treatment management and stuff like that.

And so I never really found a home academically.

At least initially.

So I remember going through school.

And again, while the exercise was a part of that, it was really from the perspective of, oh, yeah, you know, athletes do that.

And then there's kind of exercise, you should park your car in the end of the parking lot, you should get more steps in and you can go upstairs.

And it was kind of that public health message, which is awesome stuff and incredibly important.

It just wasn't my passion.

So I kind of remember almost feeling like I didn't really have much of a home academically, and I would learn stuff, and I was excited about learning the human body, and that stuff fascinated me and still does.

So from the cardiovascular perspective, I just really didn't care that much about that stuff until we got into doing things like testing the VO2 max.

I'll tell you what that is a little bit later, and we'll walk through it.

But that got my attention, right?