Hacking Exercise For Health. The surprising new science of fitness.

I found this on coursera inspiring about such things.

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https://www.coursera.org/learn/hacking-exercise-health?

Most people are not training for climbing mountains. And it seems there have been newer research since the other research referred to by that book. Some of it shows (approximately) that maxing out your cardio for short periods is not only better for practicing the maxing out, but also for overall cardio endurance.

Dr. Stu and Marty teach it well in the course : https://www.coursera.org/learn/hacking-exercise-health

Have you read the muscle and strength pyramids? Or are you interested in textbook formats? This course could be of interest https://www.coursera.org/learn/hacking-exercise-health it’s by two experts in the field.

Alternatively, you could learn how to read primary research if interested? That would be hard but then you’d no longer need to rely on others.

Greetings u/seceerden

I can offer a few suggestions that may serve as useful introductory resources.

Firstly, there is this online course - through Coursera (which is free) - led by Prof Stuart Phillips and Prof Martin Gibala; https://www.coursera.org/learn/hacking-exercise-health .

Secondly, another Coursera resource - led by Dr Robert Mazzeo; https://www.coursera.org/learn/science-exercise.

Finally, there is this YouTube channel that has been started recently by exercise physiologist Mark Burnley; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnALqirLBF4CU-5U7eeCqjQ. Whilst a new channel, he has already uploaded a number of videos covering some of the interesting exercise physiology topics (i.e. oxygen kinetics, lactate threshold, critical power/intensity). I highly recommend Mark's videos.

Hope that helps!