Training and Racing with Moxy - Kona

Dr. Phil Batterson is the head physiologist, coach, and founder of Critical Oxygen. Critical Oxygen is a personal coaching business that provides education, coaching, and physiological testing to help time-crunched high-achievers maximize their health, wellness, and performance through practical science.

He has a Ph.D. in molecular exercise physiology, where his research largely focused on how skeletal muscle mitochondria adapt to various exercise and dietary interventions. His master’s degree is in biology, where he focused on the physiological factors that predict endurance performance. His current research is on practical applications of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for endurance performance.

Phil has over a decade of coaching, physiological assessment, and NIRS, experience. He has worked with athletes of all skill levels from nationally successful high school and junior college cross-country teams, to Olympic hopefuls and medalists.

He has competed in endurance sports from cross-country and track, to rowing, triathlons and most currently trail running.

His current base of operation is Bend, Oregon, where he spends his free time exploring the outdoors with his fiancé, and three dogs.