Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Dr. Johnathan Edwards received his PhD from the University of Paris studied physiology at the University of California Davis. He has coached professional athletes and Olympians, including: Miesha Tat…

Dr. Mike T. Nelson has spent 18 years of his life learning how the human body works, specifically focusing on how to properly condition it to burn fat and become stronger, more flexible, and healthie…

Michelle is a registered dietitian who follows a low carbohydrate high fat diet. As a highly competitive high school track and field athlete, she battled anorexia and stress fractures, before finding…

Alan spent over two decades working with a wide range of endurance athletes as both an exercise physiologist and a coach. During that time, he worked with (& accumulated data from athletes at all end…

Cynthia is a World Champion Track Athlete who specializes in the 400 meters. She competes for Team USA in Masters Athletics. She is also a 2018 National Champion in the 200 meters, 400 meters, 4x 200…

Zach answers a few listener questions. Questions included; determining aerobic threshold, how and when I recommend a LCHF approach to endurance, and how does training and nutrition differ from 100 mi…

Mike returns to HPO (episode 186) to chat about a variety of things he has been up to since he came on earlier this year. Mike has run a 100 mile with ZERO calories, completed a 300 mile run just for…

JT is the owner of Body Weight Strength where he leads by example on how to properly get in incredible shape using body weight calisthenics. He also hosts a YouTube channel outlining many of his trai…

Drew Manning gained popularity nearly ten years ago, by forgoing his life long fitness to gain significant weight on purpose and try to do lose it. His goal was to better appreciate the social and em…

Addie and Nicole join to discuss training for sport at an early age, sports psychology, and healthy relationship with sport. Addie was a D1 athlete at UNC Chapel Hill. She has qualified for the Olymp…

Brad is a former professional triathlete. He has dabbled in all sorts of sports, including; speed golf, high jump, and sprinting. Brad has embraced primal training and nutrition practices. 

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Zach is joined by Lewis Ryan. Lewis is a professional XTERRA athlete. At the young age of 22, Ryan is a 4x World Champion Podium Finisher, World Champion, 7x National Champion (New Zealand), and on t…

Zach is joined by Steve Tashjian. Steve is the Head Performance Specialist for United States Soccer. Steve is an advocate for the use of a high fat low carbohydrate diet with periodized carbohydrate …

Zach is joined by Dave Scott. Dave is a 6x Ironman World Champion. Dave's battles with Mark Allen at Kona have gone down in history as some of the top duals in the sport. Currently, Dave remains a bi…

Zach discusses the future of HPO, some upcoming guests, and answers listener questions including: what type of strength training do you do, what does speed work look like in an endurance training pla…

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, Dr. Fred Provenza joined the show. Fred is a professor at Utah State University in the …

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, former Navy SEALS, Adam LaReau and Paul McCallough joined the show. Adam and Paul share…

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, Dr. Dan Plews joined the show. Dan is an Applied Sports Scientist (PhD Exercise Physiol…