Welcome to the Critical Oxygen Podcast! In this episode Jonah Rosner, MS, CSCS, and I talk about durability/resilience in endurance sports. We explore how to test resilience, metrics to monitor resilience, like using heart rate decoupling during marathons, and much more!

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Interested in reading more, check out the durability paper we discuss in the episode - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37606604/

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction to Resilience
1:00 - Scaling a Physiology Assessment Business
3:00 - Remote Physiology Testing Models
6:00 - Remote Testing Implementation
9:00 - Limitations of Traditional Metrics
12:00 - Dynamic Nature of Critical Power
15:00 - Factors Influencing Durability
18:00 - Testing Durability in Athletes
21:00 - Resilience Testing Methodologies
24:02 – What can we learn from Durability
24:25 – Decoupling Metrics
26:49 – Training Specificity and Environmental Factors
31:16 – Training for Durability
41:42 – Economy and Training Variety
47:53 – Periodization and Specificity in Training