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>> My name is Carl Reiken [assumed spelling].

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I am the Coordinator of Performance
Testing at the national training center.

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Here I test and train all levels of
athletes, everybody from you know,

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sort of beginning weekend warrior up
through elite sprinters and triathletes,

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swimmers, golfers, soccer athletes.

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We can do a lot of the physiological testing.

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If you're into sports science or things like
that, you'll know of like a VO2-max test

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or a lactate threshold test
or something like that.

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Basically, we're figuring out
what somebody's capacity is

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and how they compare to other athletes.

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And then we're figuring out what type
of training they've done and what type

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of training they need to do to achieve whatever
it is they want to do, whatever their goals are.

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And that program would include
nutrition, strength and conditioning.

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It would include the sport-specific training.

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And it might -- and it often does -- include my
coordination with doctors, physical therapists,

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massage therapists, chiropractors,
who also are a part of the team

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that creates the athlete in the end.

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We'll start out with a consult
first thing in the morning.

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And then I would go back to back
for a few hours with some training.

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Then during the middle of the day
we have a sort of training lull.

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There aren't as many people around.

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They're usually at work.

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So those are the times that I usually have
meetings trying to bring new service lines here

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or expand our existing service lines.

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Starting about 3 o'clock, maybe 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, our teams start coming in.

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And so then I start working with larger groups
of young people or professionals at that point.

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And then on my longest days, that would
finish with an evening talk for the community.

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It'd be a free talk that I would give on various
and assorted topics related to exercise science

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or to mental training or to
nutrition or whatever that might be.

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So that would get me there from 7 o'clock in
the morning, usually, till 7 or 8 at night.

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And that's a fun, exhausting but fulfilling day.