Tony Hchaime

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[Tony Hchaime @TonyHchaime]

@Alan_Couzens My 5 year old son calls anyone on an electric scooter or e-bicycle “lazy”, loudly… did I go too far??

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@Alan_Couzens I’m going to call it “unfat” from now on

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🇩🇰 Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading.

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@Alan_Couzens Yes. But it’s also linked to their pay structures. They’re incentivized for the short term so they throw eggs at the wall (a la Sutto).
Many “old school” ones don’t / can’t read a blood test or health metrics whatsoever

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@Alan_Couzens *olympic

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@Alan_Couzens I don’t disagree but that’s how coaches look at it. I’ve spoken to over 20 coaches working with Illinois federations over the years and it’s a unanimous view: “we get paid for performance and nothing else”. They don’t even care about the longevity of that performance

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@BenjiNaesen Legend

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@Alan_Couzens Yep. And cracking this is a big contributor to the massive jump in cycling performance we’ve seen in the last few years (not completely discounting other possibilities)

[Tony Hchaime @TonyHchaime]

@Alan_Couzens Or electric scooters, or let them use the elevators to go up 2 floors and and and

[Tony Hchaime @TonyHchaime]

@Alan_Couzens Data doesn’t lie. n=1 but for me but it’s consistent: dinner within 2 hours of bed ==> significant drop in Deep Sleep (Oura & Garmin consistently agree on this).

Conversely eating too far from bed (4h) ==> not enough REM (more times spent Awake in the second half of the night)

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@drcateshanahan No universal solution. I’m 46, Ironman & ultramarathoner. Also lift weights (heavy). Lean. 55VO2max. 42 RHR. Trig 50, LDL 60, HDL 100. All blood markers good. Sleep well. Eat clean. BUT hypertensive. The ONLY thing that keeps it in check is cutting salt. people react differently.

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@nntaleb What I’m failing to understand from the comments on this thread is why people feel compelled to stand up for Michael Lewis??

[Tony Hchaime @TonyHchaime]

@ellulie_ @nntaleb In my experience (own training & coaching athletes) yes. For the same type of workout, you have to produce more force indoors, causing more muscle fatigue. Also most people drop their cadence indoors vs outdoors making this worse

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@nntaleb I’ll try again: fatigue can be caused by either cardiovascular fatigue or muscles becoming too acidic. If a muscle is untrained, it becomes acidic at lower level of stimulus causing fatigue BEFORE it works hard enough to ⬆️ CO2 which ⬆️ heart rate.

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@nntaleb Because you’d be limited by the ability of the muscle to exert force. It doesn’t produce enough force to tax the cardiovascular system. This is why (for example) cyclists trying indoor cycling for the first time cannot get their heart rate up: they are limited by muscular fatigue

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@ameliaboone I got heartburn reading this 😆

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@ashort__c @Alan_Couzens @ouraring Also, I’ve been dealing with some health issues (bronchitis) past 2 weeks, and as I felt worse, my RHR was rising even though my HRV was also rising. I could push through a workout with low HRV & low RHR but not the opposite (felt worse with high RHR despite better, higher, HRV)

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@ashort__c @Alan_Couzens @ouraring I tracked watts/HR (avg) and plotted against HRV & RHR & RPE. Correlation was highest with RHR and RPE and RPE tracked RHR much more closely than HRV