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Today's special guest Frank Taeger calls himself a "crazy guy", and this is exactly what we like about him :-) He is the most evidence-based german athletic trainer we know, book author on resistance and athletic training
and nutrition, co-founder of the German Strength and Conditioning Academy and Martial Arts silver medallist.
We talk with Frank about :
- where gear and collecting data makes sense and where not
- surviving 4 training sessions per day among the Shaolin
- having clients sing the national anthem while taking an ice bath at night
- how conservative structures in german elite team sports inhibit modern performance monitoring
- how to (better not) replicate the original Tabata protocol with 170% VO2Max and monitor it on your tracker, if you are still alive. www.taegerfitness.de

If you like what we are doing and want to support us please feel free to buy us a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/trackerbros Marcus Filly Coaching Programm: www.revival-strength.com. With some code at the end of our Podcast :) Hey there Whoop and Crossfit community, this one is for you. In this episode, Marcus Filly, 6 times Crossfit Games participant, represents the view of an elite athlete and coach. He talks about his former training life, his new life as the owner and coach of his online fitness program „Revival Strength“, and „Functional Bodybuilding“ as a key concept of his program. While many tracker nerds tend towards collecting data they can hardly evaluate, we like Marcus‘ pragmatic views towards tracker data such as HRV and recovery.
We also had Darth Vader in the call...well... apologies for the intense background sounds, Daniel not only caught a cold but also every single breath with his brand new microphone😀

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Today's guest is the "Techy Agent" aka Eric Russell, who we consider a popstar among the fitness tech reviewers on Youtube, with more than 54.000 followers (including us two). Higher dark forces tried to prevent this recording: In the middle of the session, Daniel had a complete power outage in his house, while in parallel Markus' cat puked on the carpet and Eric's network dropped. We believe this is the combined wrath of upset Polar Ignite users as a reaction on Eric's negative Ignite review :-) With Eric we talked about how life is as a reviewer, how the crowd responds to negative reviews of their favorite gadget, optical sensors, questionable reviews and studies on tracker accuracy. Further, we discuss why "Mr. Agent" loves the Apple Watch 4, and how he applies his sophisticated "Pizza carb load" technique to get energy for long recording sessions in the gym.

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In episode 2, we had Chuck Hazzard over, VP Sales of Oura. We chattet about the Oura ring, health, how to improve sleep, HRV, and why you should not get crazy about sleep phases. We further learned about circadian rhythm, checking tracker morning stats IN the sauna, and how to spend a night in a hypoxico tent... on your bed :-) Chuck also responds to questions from the Oura user community. As two goodies for our listeners we have a discount code for a new Oura Ring - this code works for 10 days from now and gives you 50$/€ off a new Ring.  Just follow this link here : https://ouraring.com/partners/trackerbros Second goodie : Want to be part of our TrackerBros Oura-Team on the web Plattform? Shoot us a mail at trackerbros@gmx.de with your full name and start comparing your stats against ours.

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Our first guest is Dr. Ali Cigari, founder and lead engineer of Wattson Blue - an amazing app to monitor athlete load and recovery.

We talk about sports, HRV, recovery and the app he develops with his team. We further discuss how Wattson Blue started and evolved over time, the metrics it provides,

recovery in general and the future of the app. And how it predicts Marcus' life expectation :-)

It was a pleasure to have Ali in the podcast, with all his passion he puts into his app and providing true value for athletes. Big thanks, Ali!

We hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as us three enjoyed recording, and you leave the conversation with some new insights and ideas for your own training and recovery.