Dr. Andy Galpin

Again, iconic is maybe even not enough to describe how successful and talented Paula was.

She reportedly ran somewhere in the distance of 140 to 160 miles per week.

And this is actually really cool because this is a document that you can go look up.

She had a very well-respected and known exercise physiologist, Andy Jones.

He was actually one of the gentlemen probably most responsible for bringing beetroot juice and arginine and things like that onto the scene from a supplementation and nutrition perspective.

But Andy worked with her for, I believe, almost 20 years and was able to document her training.

and her performance and metrics and things like that.

So I was able to take her through a bunch of world records and so has this stuff as something you can go download and take a look at.

Before we move into our final category of intervention, I think it's important to give you some context.

I realize many of you are probably familiar with a vertical jump test, a 40-yard dash, maybe your 100 max bench press.

Those numbers kind of make sense.

Perhaps these ones, they have less context for you.

It's hard to grasp how impressive they are.

Outside of seeing how much bigger or higher these numbers are for world champions relative to the rest of us, the numbers don't make a lot of sense.

So what I've done is I've made a couple of quick calculations here to give you a little bit of context of what it means physiologically to have a VO2 max this high.

what that means in terms of how much blood you're pumping throughout your system, how efficient your muscles are at getting that in.

And so just as a couple of examples, I want to hit you with some fun numbers here.

As we talked about earlier, a standard cardiac output at rest is something like 5 liters per minute.

And remember, cardiac output is heart rate multiplied by stroke volume.

So if we assume a resting heart rate of, say, 60 beats per minute, and we wanted to get to that number of, call it 5 liters per minute,