Ten years ago Dan Plews and I did ten-minute geek-outs on Bevan McKinnon’s Fitter Radio as Plews and Prof. Back then we were the two guys drinking ketone ester out of a bottle marked “not for human consumption.” This week we got the band back together.

Dan is the Kona age-group record holder, now chasing a HYROX Worlds podium, Science Lead at Pillar Performance, lead author on the Sports Medicine paper Fuelled or Fooled, and co-author of the new HRV book with Marco Altini, Sylvain Laborde and Emma Mosley. He still thinks he has to educate me sometimes. On ketone chemistry, fair enough.

We cover:

• Why 90 g/h is still the evidence-based starting point and 120 is not, where the carbohydrate you don’t oxidise actually goes, and why racing hot in Kona is a reason to eat less, not more
• The ageing endurance athlete’s strength problem: plyometrics, the sub-50 HYROX strength benchmarks, and why Dan now caps his long run at 90 minutes
• Training HYROX like a triathlete, and why the CrossFit crowd didn’t love that
• The vagal tank: resting, reactivity and recovery, and why a falling HRV in your taper can be good news
• What we got right and wrong ten years on, and who has mellowed more

Plus a guitar, a four-kilo medicine ball, Napoleon Dynamite, and an alpaca named Tina.

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Today’s Speakers

Prof Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/
Dr Dan Plews https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-plews

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