Episode 64: Professor Andy Jones: The World's Greatest Physiologist, The Power of Doing the Right Things, and Beetroot.

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We're back once again, the renegade masters ...

Southern One: You've done that one.

Here we are, the world's greatest rowing podcast, returning once again ...

Southern One: You've done that one too.

Northern One: You do realise that I write all the blurbs?

Southern One: I do. And a fine job you make of it too.

Northern One: And you do realise that we're over one hundred episodes deep now.

Southern One: I do. And that's why we're the world's greatest rowing podcast. Including Martin Cross.

Northern One: And you do know that people tune into us because they expect a certain level of insight, wit, humour ... dare I say diablerie.

Southern One: You can say it, but I bet you can't spell it.

Northern One: I can say it and spell it. Which is why I do the blurbs. Big words and schtick. And amazing guests. The very best guests in the world. Bar none.

Southern One: Like this one.

Northern One: Yeah. Another world-class guest. On Broken Oars. How do we get them?

Southern One: Because we're a place of insight, intelligence, keen lines of questioning, wit, humour and a certain lightness of touch ...

Northern One: Or they don't listen to us first, don't look us up and by the time the red light's on it's too late for them to get out of it?

Southern One: Well, there is that.

Northern One: And you do know that repetition is the hallmark of good prose; key to a marketing strategy; and also good comedy ...

Southern One: I find you hilarious ...

Northern One: Why, thank you ...

And so we're back, once again, the world's greatest rowing podcast, and we're back for 2024 with a world-class guest. There've been so many of them that you kind of take it for granted now, don't you? Well, you shouldn't. We might have outdone ourselves this time.

Because we're talking to Professor Andy Jones.

For those who don't know, well, you should.

Andrew M Jones is Professor of Applied Physiology in the Department of Sport and Health Sciences. Andy is internationally recognized for his research in the following areas: 1) control of, and limitations to, skeletal muscle oxidative metabolism; 2) causes of exercise intolerance in health and disease; 3) respiratory physiology, particularly the kinetics of pulmonary gas exchange and ventilation during and following exercise; and 4) sports performance physiology and nutrition, particularly in relation to endurance athletics.

And if that sounds like we've pulled it of Exeter's website, well, we have - but you should know this stuff because if you're into sport, and you're into training properly, and you're still alive and you've been and done any of those things in the last two decades ... the way you train, the way you race and what you do?

That's down to Andy's work.

Southern One: Just tell them that we've got the beetroot guy ...

Northern One: I'm getting to that ...

In other words, we've got the beetroot guy. Andy's work on how dietary nitrate reduces resting blood pressure (eating beetroot), and therefore impacting positively on cardiovascular health and performance is not just robust, but world-leading. He's the man, basically, who actually found a superfood that worked.

And boy does it work - but tied to what is world-leading (the REF results say so, as do the performance metrics and outcomes in the real world) research is also Andy's long history working in muscle energetics, fatigue and respiratory physiology with some of the world's leading athletes and high performance programmes.

And we've got him.

So join us for the only conversation you'll ever need about training and nutrition and recovery with the only person you'll ever need to hear talking about it!

Get some!

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