Ep. #12: Coach Zoe Nance

In this episode Chris Thomas sits down with athlete, exercise physiologist, and veteran coach, Zoe Nance from Uphill Athlete. Zoe has spent 3 decades in the exercise physiology field guiding a very diverse group of athletes from endurance mountain and road bikers, swimmers, triathletes, mountaineers, and paddlers for efforts like 1000 mile biking and paddling races to Mount Everest summits. We cover so much in this episode from the importance of having a coach, aerobic deficiency, glucose versus fat utilization for fuel, maximizing capillary and mitochondria density, lactate as fuel, improving lactate shuttling, using exercise physiology lab tests to personalize training, heart rate variability, recovery, and using carbohydrates as a muscle-sparing tool during exercise. There's so much more to this chat, but I'll let you hear it from Zoe Nance herself in this 12th episode of the Dabbling In Paddleism podcast... Zoe's book recommendation: "Good for a Girl" by Lauren Fleshman https://a.co/d/iySurCx How to find more from Zoe: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-nance-98316185/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@zoefitness Website: https://zoefitness.com/ And she can also be found at: https://uphillathlete.com/ Zoe's Mission: To combine scientific research, education, and practical applications of sports medicine and exercise science to enhance performance, personal fitness, health and increase the overall quality of life to individuals.