Dr. Andy Galpin

Again, there had been talks of people in the 92s, 93s, and stuff like that, but nothing had really been independently verified.

Whether you think that's important or not, hard to know, right?

Until a few years later, and this is one of the most miraculous and cool stories I ever remember being a part of.

In fact, I remember when this happened live and it was fun for me getting prepared for the show to go back and read the updates on this individual because it was such a stark and massive change.

It was one of those LeBron James or Tiger Woods moments for the endurance and exercise physiology worlds.

The guy came on the scene was an absolute phenom.

What I'm talking about, of course, is a story of the legendary Norwegian cyclist, Oskar Svensson.

And Oscar came on as an 18-year-old, and I remember hearing these murmurs coming, and people were saying, some kid, some 18-year-old just hit 100 on a VO2 max score.

And everyone was like, no way.

Again, we've heard all these stories before.

It may or may not be true.

And everyone was basically like, okay, prove it.

Prove it.

You've got to do it in a verified way.

We've got to send some independent scientists out there.

In fact, they sent the manufacturers for the metabolic heart company out to the facility that says, you need to be here.

You need to verify this thing is accurate.

Nobody really believed it.

Not the first time we had heard stories like that.

And so, of course, actually the team out there that was coaching him connected with a guy named Mike Joyner.