Olympic Special: What’s So Great About Cross Country Skiing?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One measure of aerobic fitness is VO</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2max</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, which reflects your body’s ability to take oxygen from air and put it in a form that helps you go. We noticed that one ranking of the best-ever VO</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">2max</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">scores featured five cross-country skiers in the top 10 results. So for our Winter Olympic special, host Shaun Francis and his team investigated what’s so great about cross-country skiing. Including two Canadian Winter Olympians, Katherine Stewart-Jones and Emily Nishikawa, as well as McMaster exercise scientist Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, an enthusiastic cross-country skier himself.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>For links and insights with time codes, visit the Episode 103</em> <em><a href= "https://www.eatmovethinkpodcast.com/podcast/ep103-cross-country-skiing"> web page</a>.</em></span></p>