Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

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Episode 353: Andrew Koutnik, PhD - Low Carb Health & Performance Jun 07, 2023

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Andrew Koutnik, PhD joins the show to discuss two topics in detail. The emerging evidence around and against low carbohydrate approaches for exercise performance, most specifically endurance exercise, and weighing the health implications of both high and low carbohydrate diets in the context of exercise, most specifically around glucose and lipid control.

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Episode 352: Proper Aid Station Navigation Jun 01, 2023

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This episode dives into endurance event aid stations. It looks at the planning process, and actual execution of properly using and efficiently moving through aid stations.

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Episode 351: Exogenous Ketones & Performance - Brian McMahon May 23, 2023

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Brian McMahon works alongside Professor Kieran Clarke, who has been a critical part of exogenous ketone research and formulation. Together with their team at deltaG they have produced 50+ published studies and are part of 20+ ongoing studies. This includes two very recent studies that explored exogenous ketone relationship with increasing natural levels of EPO, as well as increasing circulating dopamine concentration, improving mental alertness, and improving post exercise inflammation in endurance athletes.

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Episode 350: Historic Comeback At The Cocodona 250 Mile - Mike McKnight May 18, 2023

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Mike McKnight is an ultramarathon athlete and coach. He returns for the fourth time to discuss his historic win at the Cocodona 250 Mile. After finding himself in 73rd place, Mike rallied through the field to take the win, fueling mostly on raw milk.

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Exogenous ketosis increases circulating dopamine concentration and maintains mental alertness in ultra-endurance exercise

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Episode 349: Keto Without The Crazy - Amy Berger May 05, 2023

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Amy Berger returns to share her approach to helping people manage keto and low carbohydrate diets. Amy has a Master's Degree in Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), and certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner.

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Episode 348: Long Intervals Simplified Apr 28, 2023

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For this episode, I describe a simple way to implement long intervals into your training without overcomplicating things. This may help better understand perceived effort, and create an understanding that will allow for building in more variables to future long interval sessions.

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Episode 347: Low Carb Endurance - Dr. Dan Plews Apr 12, 2023

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Dr. Dan Plews is an Applied Sports Scientist (PhD Exercise Physiology), researcher, and endurance coach. He has competed at a high level in triathlon, including an age group record at Kona. He has worked with numerous world and Olympic class athletes in the sports of rowing, kayak, and triathlon. He employs a low carbohydrate approach to his own training and racing, and with some of his coaching clients.

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Episode 346: Short Intervals Simplified Apr 06, 2023

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For this episode, I describe a simple way to implement short intervals into your training without overcomplicating things. This may help better understand perceived effort, and create an understanding that will allow for building in more variables to future short interval sessions.

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Episode 345: 2x Barkley Marathons Finisher - John Kelly Mar 28, 2023

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John Kelly is an ultramarathon athlete, Chief Technology Officer of Envelop Risk, holds a PhD in electrical engineering and machine learning from Carnegie Mellon, and is a father of four. Barkley Marathons is considered by many one of the hardest endurance events to complete, with only 17 total finishers and 21 total finishes in it's history.

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Episode 344: Endurance Training Simplified Mar 24, 2023

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There are a lot of ways to prepare for endurance events, and countless ways to structure workouts. For this episode, I scaled it all way down to five core intensities to work on to prepare for your next event if you are looking to get back to the basics and simplify your training, and better understand targeting different intensities in training. From here, you can add as you see fit!

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