Saint Paul College Class and Seminar Content
Class Content
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Week 1: Visualize the Aerobic System
Metabolism is a Slow Form of Combustion
Week 2: Oxygen Powered Metabolism
Aerobic vs Anaerobic Metabolism: VO2 Max in Context of Speed & Power
Week 3: Heart and Blood Physics
Cardiac Output, Stroke Volume, Direct Measurement of Oxygen Consumption, and More.
Week 4: Glycolysis Visualized
Running faster than 10mph is powered by very high rates of fermentation of glucose.
Week 5: Glycogen Storage
Glycogen storage, depletion and repletion is a relative matter.
Week 6: Lactate Testing
Fitness Lab. Non-traditional lactate testing. Weight lifting is powered by extremely high rates of fermentation.
Week 7: 'Plant Based' Sports Nutrition
The Science of Adjusting Amount of Carbohydrates for the Couch Potato, the Endurance Athlete, and Everyone Inbetween
Week 8: Relative VO2 and Metabolism
Metabolism of Mice and Men, Birds and Elephants. Relative VO2, Thermodynamics, and Lifespan.
Week 9: Protein and Coconut Oil for Healing and Regeneration
The Role of Protein and Fat in Anabolism and Catabolism of the Tissues and Structure of the Body
Week 10: Dietary Structure
The Mentality of Excessiveness: Fueling the Modern Man and the Modern Athlete
Week 11: The Science of Power
Power is a function of strength and speed. Maximizing neural recruitment maximizes strength.
Week 12: Gut and Brain Health, Part 1
Students draw a schematic by hand, the chronological transformation and assimilation of nutrients from the mouth to anus.
Week 13: Gut & Brain Health Part 2
The metabolic model of preventing and reversing cognitive decline.
Week 14: Your Brain on Collision Sports
Brain Contusions vs Concussions: Flow and The Metabolic Model Revisited
Week 15: Visualize Inflammation
Inflamed cells are energy depleted, overused, swollen, fatigued cells.
Selected Readings for Seminars
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Nutrition is an Active Event
Hardly anyone thinks of nutrition as an event in concrete terms.
Life in the Cell Begins at the Edge of Death
Learn the History and Science of Nutrition, Calorimetry, and Fuel Substrate Utilization
“We are billion year-old carbon” Joni Mitchell, line from Woodstock
