Live High, Train Low- Lessons from 25 years of Practice with Olivier Girard, PhD | KoopCast Episode #191

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Episode overview:

Dr. Olivier Girard is an Associate Professor in Human Performance and Research Director of the Sports Science, Exercise, and Health Department at the University of Western Australia.

He spent 20 years in the field of exercise physiology and biomechanics developing and facilitating performance outcome-based solutions for elite athletes (mainly team/racket sports), coaches, and their support teams. In Perth, Dr. Girard leads an environmental physiology special interest group.

Olivier completed his Doctoral Degree (2006) in Human Movement Sciences at the University of Montpellier in France. For eight years, he worked as Research Scientist at Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, a FIFA and IOC-accredited medical center. He was employed at Lausanne University, Switzerland, and Murdoch University in Perth, Australia.

Olivier has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 25 book chapters and has presented his work at more than 180 national/international conferences.

Episode highlights:

(47:32) Timing altitude interventions: pre-race acclimation is high risk-high reward, using altitude to enable harder training requires a second step, Koop’s low risk to high reward process

(56:35) Lesson 5: managing fatigue is key, altitude exposes your weaknesses exponentially, you need to nail the basics

(1:18:29) Intermittent hypoxic training: intervals and resistance training in hypoxia, potential benefits to muscle strength, combining hematological and non-hematological training, live high-train low and high

Additional resources:

https://www.oliviergirard.com/

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