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Testing & Physiological Profiling For Crossfit Athletes - Sean Seale

Updated: Apr 3



Hello and welcome to The Progress Theory where we discuss how to implement scientific principles to optimise human performance. In this episode, we have S&C coach Sean Seale.


Sean is the host of Upside Strength, an amazing resource which includes a podcast, educational seminars and an awesome youtube channel. Through his podcast, he has investigated different physiological concepts and their application to endurance training and CrossFit, and it has been awesome to hear his journey of learning new ideas, putting them into practice and formulating his own approach to training, testing and monitoring. In this episode, we discuss his physiological approach to testing CrossFit athletes and determining training intensity zones and the importance of low-intensity training for aerobic adaptations.


In this episode, we discuss:

  • 1:09 - Introduction

  • 02:45 - Upside Strength & introduction to Sean Seale

  • 12:08 - The change to a physiological focus

  • 15:04 - Physiological testing protocols

  • 22:36 - Physiological changes from training

  • 25:07 - Determining intensity zones using critical power and lactate threshold

  • 31:03 - Testing with minimal equipment

  • 37:28 - Maintaining power output during tests

  • 40:10 - How best to find critical power

  • 46:14 - The importance of low-intensity training for Crossfit

  • 50:45 - Any differences between hybrid athletes and Crossfit athletes?

  • 55:26 - Lactate and fat oxidation in Crossfitters

  • 58:29 - Recommendations


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