Rhonda Patrick

Being sedentary is a disease.

And I do think that low cardiorespiratory fitness should be considered kind of like a disease marker as well.

A lot more can be said about VO2 max and cardiorespiratory fitness.

You kind of mentioned a little bit about athletes being interested in VO2 max and improving their VO2 max.

Can you talk a little bit about why maybe athletes think about training explicitly for VO2 max or maybe why they don't?

Well, you alluded a little bit to, you know, you said high-intensity interval training, and that's, you know, one way that you can improve VO2 max.

And I think we're going to get into that in a minute, talking about Dr. Martin Kabbalah's research.

But I'm interested.

So let's say, you know, you want to improve your lactate clearance, one that you mentioned.

Like, what kind of training, how do you train differently than doing, like, high-intensity interval training?

How would you improve your lactate clearance more?

Well, so high intensity interval training workouts, like Dr. Martin Gabalo is on the podcast and he's really an expert in high intensity interval training.

And there's there are a lot of people that are interested in the time efficiency of it.

So high intensity interval training workouts.

I guess there's a lot of ways to define it.

Marty likes to talk about it being like when you're doing it, doing the interval, that you're doing vigorous exercise.

And that could be different for a lot of people depending on your fitness level.

But essentially, you're working harder than you can't really have a conversation when you're doing that interval.

So you're going really hard.

Most people are about 80 to 85 percent, at least maximum heart rate for the interval.