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Aaron Easker

Exercise physiologist and distance runner, Performance Physiologist at Human Powered Health in Edina, MN.

Oct 9, 2026

28:01
This way.
28:02
So we are human-powered health.
28:03
I'm going to kind of brag about my job a little bit.
28:06
Doc made a nice kind of leeway into our realm of what we do at our performance lab.
28:12
So one thing about our lab is kind of the reason why we started was a place that people could go to that was a little more proactive with your health.
28:20
For example, when you see your doctor, a DEXA scan, for example.
28:24
Have you ever heard of a DEXA scan before? I see some hands.

43 MINS LATER

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a
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It's not
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knocking that, but I think most people now agree, Hey, we got to run a little more than we walk.
34:37
Mechanical demands.
34:38
You're probably not getting from, from the walking.
34:40
Exactly.
34:41
Exactly.
34:41
But it's kind of funny looking at how we've, you know, in only a hundred years time, which is a long time, but, um, you know, but it's kind of funny to look how far we've come since even like the 1960s, you know, the running boom really happened around the sixties and seventies when, um, you know, the world, this is running really took off, you know, the four minute mile of course was before that, but you know, the marathon running, the half marathon running, you know, really took off, um, with the times and just the popularity after that with kind of modern day periodization and training and progressive overload is kind of that dominating principle that kind of started around then.

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So what are the tests that they go through to determine zones? And what's the difference between like a lactate threshold, which you mentioned earlier, and a VO2 max test?

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