The thing is I had done everything “right” to that point in my career. I had completed two of the top internships in the world at Cressey Performance and IFAST, I’d devoured every book I could find on training, programming, movement, biomechanics, and behavior change, and I was delivering incredible results for all of my athletes and clients.

So what gives? Why did I have this annoying little voice in the back of my head that I just couldn’t get rid of? Why was I doubting myself, lacking confidence, and feeling like a fraud?

What I realized was that I wanted to join a different tier of coaches. I saw the top coaches and practitioners in the industry and realized they were having a very different conversation than I was able to partake in. They understood the WHY behind things, while I was busy copying and using more of a plug and chug method.

To join that conversation and truly understand the WHY behind things, I needed to get into more advanced science material like physics, chemistry, and physiology (the stuff most people avoid because it’s hard).

But I quickly ran into a ceiling because I had no background in the sciences.

I’d try reading the physiology textbook I’d bought, but it felt like I was going backward in the educational process because I had missed the important foundations that would allow me to understand what I was trying to read.

CUE BANGING HEAD AGAINST WALL…

I can tell you from first-hand experience how difficult and frustrating it can be to try and lift back the hood on human physiology and truly understand the why behind what’s going on.

Especially when you don’t have a strong science background…

Or maybe you have a science background but had a hard time getting the material to stick the first time through because 1) it was taught poorly or 2) you had no application for it.

Trust me…I’ve been there.

I was so hungry to dive into the weeds and better understand advanced human physiology but struggled to do so on my own. Despite following all the typical advice:

LAME ADVICE #1 – JUST READ MORE BOOKS AND YOU’LL GET IT

DO I WISH this was true. If so, I’d easily be the smartest human on the planet because I’m stubborn enough to read just about anything cover to cover. Even textbooks. And that’s the first strategy I attempted. I ordered dozens of textbooks, devoted countless hours to reading them, and progressed at a snail’s pace for 6 months. Sure, if I had nothing to do for the next 20 years this strategy could work, but not realistic.

LAME ADVICE #2 – YOU CAN TOTALLY TEACH YOURSELF THIS WITH FREE LECTURES ON THE INTERWEBS

The common advice here is “Dude, you can find everything you need to learn with free lectures on the internet.” What they don’t mention is that 1) these free lectures aren’t crafted specifically to help you learn and 2) the lectures are scattered and don’t build off each other to tell a clear story. 

So you get talked at for hours on end, absorb a little of it, have the vast majority go in one and ear out the other, and waste time scouring the internet attempting to fill in the gaps.

LAME ADVICE #3 – DIDN’T YOU LEARN THIS IN SCHOOL?

Maybe you actually have a formal education in chemistry, physics, and/or human physiology, and had an amazing professor that got the information to stick for you. If so, I’m happy for you but you are in the minority. 

Most people I know feel like they were force-fed information simply to memorize it, regurgitate it on a test, and then immediately forget 95% of it.

LAME ADVICE #4 – JUST WORK HARDER!

Sometimes this is absolutely the case and the person in question needs to put in more time and effort. But I’ve found the truth is often the opposite. The person needs to start working smarter and not harder. They don’t have a system/framework in place to optimize their ability to absorb and learn new information, so they waste hours spinning their wheels.

Following this advice led to nothing but frustration, and constantly doubting myself, my knowledge, and my abilities.

SO I QUIT MY JOB, TOOK OUT A $20,000 LOAN, AND MOVED ACROSS THE COUNTRY

After letting this mental virus fester for several months I made the incredibly difficult decision to leave a job I loved to go back to school, but not graduate school…I’m talking full-blown undergraduate classes because I didn’t have the prerequisites required to get into graduate school for a Ph.D. in integrative physiology (which was my goal at the time).

So, I moved out to Salt Lake City, Utah, where I didn’t know a single person within several hundred miles, took out a $20,000 student loan, and enrolled in 4 semesters worth of undergraduate science courses…everything from general chemistry to organic chemistry to biochemistry to cell biology.

To say it was a little embarrassing being 25/26 years old sitting in a room full of 17/18-year-old kids who couldn’t legally consume alcohol for another 3 years would be an understatement.

But frankly, I was obsessed. I had to get rid of this voice. I needed to better understand the WHY so I could stop doubting myself and truly be confident as a coach and practitioner.

The only way I knew how to do that was to push all my chips in that direction, so I did.

I ended up spending 4 semesters knocking out undergraduate prerequisites before transitioning to graduate school where I was fortunate to spend 2.5 years as part of the Utah Vascular Research Lab getting a world-class education in advanced human physiology with a special emphasis on the oxygen cascade.

After finishing all of my graduate-level coursework, and having my name on numerous publications, I decided to walk away from the Ph.D. because I love teaching and coaching more than writing grants (i.e. why I made this course).

Despite leaving with zero letters next to my name, I walked away overflowing with confidence because I had put the voice the rest. There was no more frustration and self-doubt because I had done the work, acquired the knowledge, and finally understood the why.

My ability to progress and move forward as both a coach and practitioner was no longer capped, and I was finally able to move from the kid’s table to the adult table.

Plus, I know I can learn anything moving forward because I’ve built myself a mountain of a foundation.

HOW DO YOU LEARN ADVANCED HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY?

After spending well over 5 years of my life with this material, I genuinely, 100% believe that anyone can learn this stuff. 

Is it easy? Absolutely not.

It’s going to take time and effort on your end, but it is doable. Also, I think it’s far easier to learn this stuff now than when you were in school the first time around.

Because the first time around you didn’t have an application for what you were trying to learn besides “memorize this because it’s going to be on the test.”

When it comes to learning this material I think you have 3 options:

Here’s an okay approach:  Study the classics and take copious amounts of notes. Books like…

I’ve read all of these books and dozens more, but I will warn you – the trial and error method of learning this material will take you forever.

Here’s a BETTER approach (if you want to work in academia): go back to school, join a lab, and learn from all the really smart people around you. This is what I did, and it was an amazing experience but it did come at a major cost. School is not cheap (to the tune of $10,000/semester on the low end), and you have minimal flexibility to manage your time as you see fit (classes meet at a specific day and time).

👉 Here’s the BEST approach: If you’re a busy coach and practitioner that wants to level up your knowledge without having to spend thousands of dollars and go sit in a classroom several times a week, then your best bet is to:

1. Find someone who has been through the ropes and learned what you want to learn. This person will know all the most common pitfalls, can you steer you in the right direction, and help you learn more in 3 months than you will on your own in 12.
2. Convince them to teach you.

This approach I am excited to share with you today.

Introducing…

A proven step-by-step system to learn how oxygen gets from the atmosphere to the muscle mitochondria and how to manipulate it (even if you have no science background)

The Oxygen Course is my secret playbook for helping busy coaches and practitioners get the advanced physiology education they need to level up without having to spend thousands of dollars and go sit in a classroom several times a week.

But this is more than just a course. It’s a masterclass and coaching system designed to take you by hand and teach you the equivalent of 3 graduate-level classes in 13 weeks.

WHAT WILL I LEARN IN THIS COURSE?

The course is all about unpacking the oxygen cascade – how does oxygen get from the atmosphere to the muscle mitochondria, and how can you manipulate it.

Module 1 ($997 value)

The Foundations

This module lasts 3 weeks and consists of 5 lectures. The objective of this module is to build a rock-solid foundation in essential chemistry, physics, cell physiology, biological communication systems, and biological control systems, so you can handle the more advanced information coming in module 2 and 3.

+ Make sense of energy and work, entropy and spontaneity, endergonic and exergonic reactions, and energy coupling (these relationships form the foundation of complex life)

+ Learn what gradients are and how they function as life’s battery

+ Learn Le Chaelier’s Principle and how a system at equilibrium responds to disturbances

+ Learn about the electron, REDOX chemistry, and how electrons move through a system

+ Learn what  ATP is and how it actually works

+ Learn the organization, structure, function, and energy requirements of the cell.

+ Learn what enzymes are, how they work, and how they are regulated.

+ Learn the ins and outs of metabolism (how do creatine-phosphate, glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport chain work together to make ATP)

+ Learn about the central nervous system and the endocrine system, and how they function as the two primary biological communication systems.

+ Learn how the body maintains homeostasis.

+ Learn the difference between negative and positive feedback mechanisms.

+ Learn the difference between controlled and regulated variables (this is big for understanding how the body reacts to stress)

+ Learn the ins and outs of the cellular stress response and how that leads to adaptation.

Module 2 ($997 Value)

Advanced Respiratory Physiology

This module lasts 4 weeks and consists of 8 lectures. The objective of this module is for you to understand how oxygen gets from the atmosphere into the blood, how carbon dioxide gets from the blood to the atmosphere, and how the respiratory system responds to exercise.

+ Learn the anatomy, structure, and function of the human lung

+ Learn the ins and outs of ventilation (how inspired gas gets to the alveoli) and diffusion (how gases cross the blood-gas interface)

+ Learn Fick’s law of diffusion, the difference between a perfusion and diffusion-limited gas, and why diffusion capacity is so important.

+ Learn about the three-headed monster of pressure, resistance, and flow in the pulmonary circulation (this is crucial to understand how blood flow is distributed in the lung)

+ Learn the 4 causes of hypoxemia (number 2 is key)

+ Learn about differences in regional gas exchange in the upright human lung (spoiler – the top and bottom are different)

+ Learn how oxygen and carbon dioxide are carried in the blood (is it dissolved, is it bound, how much can it carry, where does hemoglobin fit into this)

+ Learn the ins and outs of the oxygen dissociation curve (what impacts hemoglobins affinity for oxygen and why does this matter for oxygen delivery)

+ Learn how the body regulates acid-base balance using respiratory and metabolic strategies.

+ Learn the mechanics of breathing and why the work of breathing is so important for performance.

+ Learn how ventilation is controlled by the brain (spoiler – it’s not about oxygen)

+ Learn what happens when you go to altitude and how that can impact performance

+ Learn how the respiratory system responds to graded and constant workload exercise

+ Learn how the respiratory system can limit exercise performance and what you can do about it.

Module 3 ($997 value)

Advanced Cardiovascular Physiology

This module lasts 5 weeks and consists of 10 lectures. The objective of this module is for you to understand how the cardiovascular system manages the distribution of blood flow to get oxygen to the muscle mitochondria to ensure supply equals demand.

+ Learn the anatomy, structure, and function of the human cardiovascular system

+ Learn what muscle VO2 is and how to calculate it (this is crucial if you hope to understand how supply = demand)

+ Learn the difference between a high-pressure distribution system and a low-pressure collection system (and why it matters for blood distribution)

+ Learn the 6 crucial variables that determine cardiac output (and how you can manipulate them with exercise) 

+ Learn how heart rate and stroke volume are regulated (why do they increase when you exercise?)

+ Learn how mean arterial pressure is calculated and why you are constantly balancing defending pressure vs. supplying blood to active skeletal muscle.

+ Learn how the redistribution of cardiac output is controlled when you exercise (how are you preferentially getting blood to active skeletal muscle?)

+ Learn the components of total peripheral resistance and the 6 primary ways you manipulate blood vessel diameter.

+ Learn how the brain controls circulation with both feedforward and feedback mechanisms (how does the brain know supply doesn’t equal demand?)

+ Learn how the cardiovascular system responds to heat stress and why skin blood flow may be hindering your performance.

+ Learn why upright posture poses a major challenge and how the cardiovascular system responds to make sure you don’t pass out.

+ Learn in-depth vasodilator and vasoconstrictor pathways (what actually causes a blood vessel to constrict?)

+ Learn how the cardiovascular system uses reflexes and neurohumoral adjustments to balance the competing demands of blood pressure, resistance, and increasing blood flow to active skeletal muscle.

+ Learn the ins and outs of the adjustments made by the cardiovascular system to dynamic exercise (and why whole-body exercise is almost always centrally limited).

+ Learn the difference between functional criteria and performance criteria (and why VO2 max isn’t a performance criterion…people screw this up all the time)

+ Learn why you need to know both supply and extraction to calculate the volume of oxygen consumed by a muscle (critically important for anyone using a MOXY monitor).

+ Learn how the cardiovascular system can limit exercise performance and what you can do about it.

Module 4 ($997 value)

Practical Applications [The Programming Call]

This module lasts 1 week and consists of one 2.5 hours mega lecture. The objective of this module is to connect all the dots, put your newfound knowledge to practice, and clearly draw out your plan to maximize the aerobic energetic capacity of a human.

+ Identify and review the 3 major players that can limit oxygen transfer

+ What are the 6 ways the respiratory system can limit exercise performance and where can you actually intervene?

+ How can the relationship between cardiac output, resistance, and pressure limit exercise performance, and where can you actually intervene?

+ What are 6 ways the peripheral cardiovascular system can limit exercise performance, and where can you intervene? (hint – surface area and diffusion distance are the keys)

+ How can muscle metabolism limit exercise performance and where can you intervene? (hint – enzymes and their ability to manipulate flux are the show)

+ We draw out your new performance equation so you can maximize the aerobic energetic capacity of an organism (this makes it super simple to know where you are attacking and why)

+ We draw out your new performance model (this combines kinetics, critical power, and Wagner diagrams to make sure you have a framework to use moving forward)

+ We unpack the sites of central and peripheral fatigue

+ We break down why the cell signaling approach is a terrible way to think about programming (and what you should use instead)

+ How to use the power-capacity spectrum to program deadly effective conditioning sessions in no time at all.

+ How to organize your long term training plan for maximal results (I make this really simple)

+ How to design a training week that hits all the buckets (you may never using anything else).

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All The Tools You Need To Succeed

+ The course is 100% online and includes 13 weeks of material – including over 23 hours of prerecorded lectures. You can take it at your own pace, pause, rewind, take notes and go back over the material as much as you want.

+ You get immediate access to the entire course – as soon as you register you get access to all of the course content.

+In each lecture, I lay out exactly what you’re going to learn, walk you through the material drawing it out step by step, and leave you with an assignment so you have to go and apply what you’ve learned right away (this is one secret to making new material stick).

+ Lifetime access- You are no longer a full-time student and you have a life to live. You have a job, you have bills to pay, or maybe you want to go on a vacation…that’s all to be expected. This is why I give you lifetime access to work through the course at your own pace.

+ 3 graduate levels courses rolled into one – if you do the work, you will walk away from this course with total confidence in the foundations, advanced respiratory physiology, advanced cardiovascular physiology, and how to actually apply that knowledge.

+ Pre-recorded weekly office hours – access 6 hours of pre-recorded office hours where I answer questions from other top coaches who have already worked through the course.

+ Ample references, papers, and further reading – are you the type of person who likes to read through material and go deeper? If so, I’ve included ample papers, references, and further reading throughout the course so you can dive deeper wherever you see fit.

+ (Secret Bonus) Learning how to learn – at the beginning of the course, I will teach you the exact process I use to learn anything. This will not only help you get the most out of this course but arm you with the ability to learn anything else moving forward.

THE OXYGEN COURSE IS NOT FOR YOU IF…

• You’re looking for a plug and chug education – this course is designed to teach you how to THINK so you truly UNDERSTAND the material. If you’re looking for a plug and chug, or memorize and brain dump approach, then please don’t sign up.
• You think passively absorbing information is the best way to learn – this material is hard and I am going to challenge you. If you aren’t ready to take ACTION with the material and work on it outside the lectures, then I don’t want you in my course. This is a course for people willing to put in 1.5x the work “average” people do to achieve 10x the results.

If you’re good on all 2 criteria above and are ready to get a world-class education on how oxygen gets from the atmosphere to the muscle mitochondria, then I’m ready to teach you.

WHAT REAL HUMANS THINK OF THE OXYGEN COURSE

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💰 100% Satisfaction Guarantee – Money-Back Promise

I want the investment in this course to be an absolute no-brainer for you. So, if you watch all the video lessons, do the assignments, and still don’t find the course useful, drop me an email and I’ll happily refund your full payment within 30 days of purchase. Please note that the money-back guarantee only applies if you actually do the work and complete the assignments.

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MORE REAL HUMANS AND WHAT THEY THINK OF THE OXYGEN COURSE

Are you ready to put the voice to rest, take a peek under the hood, and finally understand the physiology behind why you’re doing something?

Investing time, effort, and money into a new course can be a daunting task.

And I’m not going to sugarcoat this for you. This material is hard and you’re going to have to work at it.

But if you’re sick and tired of feeling like an imposter because you don’t understand the why behind things, and you’re ready to follow a proven system to fix that, then you’ll love this course.

If you’ve always wanted a step-by-step system to learn advanced human physiology, then you’ll love The Oxygen Course.

One of my students Keiran says it best:

“If you’re even on the cusp of, “should I do this, should I not?” You’re probably a pretty good coach where you’re getting results and you’re fine, but it’s just to your point, do you want to go to the next level and be able to have those serious conversations?”

This course is exactly what I wish I had when I started out.

If you’re ready to learn, I’m ready to teach you. Hope to see you on the inside.

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