Train Smarter, Not Harder: Heart Rate Zones, VO2 Max, and Better Fitness: Session 329 with Nick Green

So just hoping for old men like myself who are in their 50s.

It's never too late to train hard.

Good to know.

I might ask you for the reference for that to put in the show notes.

So if folks want to look at that and want to learn how to I guess, run the clock backwards, I suppose, in terms of heart health, and we can point you in the right direction.

Was it a group's design study? I recall talking to you about this either in a previous episode or maybe at a conference or something like that.

It's a bit of an aside here, but it would seem that the field of exercise science would almost screen for some, you know, kind of single subject design, single case design.

I know a lot of these studies are, you know, comparing groups who undergo different training protocols and things like that.

And, you know, I don't want to dismiss that research tradition out of hand, but, you know, if you're looking at, you know, and I know there's pre and post measures within those groups too, but, you know, it just seems, talk about the case study for repeated measures of a small number of participants over time with baseline, etc., it just seems like there's an opportunity there to expand some of the research designs that we as behavior analysts have found helpful in understanding behavioral phenomenon.

That reminds me of another recent study that I read about coming from Exercise Science.

The main research question was, at what age do we start losing strength and power and those types of measures.

So it was like a longitudinal study over like 40 years.

So for those group design purposes, very strong, right? And so what they did was over certain periods of time, they would measure explosive measures of fitness, like a vertical jump.

So standing on the ground, reaching up.

We just had the NFL combine here in Indianapolis this past weekend.

So- standing on the floor, jumping as high as you can, performing a broad jump, and there's another measure in there.

And so they

ran all the numbers

and said,

oh, yeah,

everybody peaked

at,

you know, age 30.

And so there's no, you know, so the message, so the kind of the message between the lines that they're saying indirectly was like, well, now you can't be as explosive and powerful into older age.

Now we know that's not exactly right because, you know,