Kristina Skroce: How to approach learning with Supersapiens, differences between users, glucose performance zones and professional basketball

The Supersapiens Podcast

Kristina Skroce is a Sport Physiologist at Supersapiens and PhD student at University of Rihecka (Faculty of Medicine). Kristina has coached elite triathletes for the Italian and Croatian national teams and is a former coach at Team Novo Nordisk. She holds a Master’s of Science in Sports & Exercise from the university of Verona. Kristina has 12 publications and over 50 citations, no mean feat before you gain your PhD! She is a soon to be dog mother, lover of hiking and speaks an innumerable number of languages.

02:35 – Community Shoutouts
03:50 – Xylon and Dave’s training and racing. Dave has a huge hypo post 5k TT
13:21 – Interview starts
14:12 – What Kristina is researching in her PhD
15:09 – The benefits of being involved in a mixture of elite athletes and unwell patient populations
16:13 – The parallels between extreme disease physiology and extreme exercise
17:21 – How Kristina got involved with Supersapiens and what her role at the company involves.
18:46 – Why Kristina joined Supersapiens.
19:55 – What parameters are required to bring an athlete to elite levels of performance?
21:06 – Kristina’s sporting background and involvement in professional basketball
22:14 – What is better, basketball or endurance sports?
23:10 – What level Kristina played basketball at before having to stop
23:55 – Can the average athlete beat the naturally gifted athlete?
26:55 – Could Xylon beat Dave in a marathon?
28:04 – Could Dave beat Freddie Ovett in a marathon?
30:35 – The evolution from amateurism to professionalism to sport and who wins during different phases of that process.
31:44 – What Kristina really loves about working at Supersapiens.
34:20 – What are some of the learnings Kristina has taken from the elite athletes she helps as part of her role at Supersapiens?
36:50 – Our learnings around what is ‘normal’ in the context of CGM values in people without diabetics
39:29 – Differences in in glucose between the biological sexes.
42:03 – Differences between users in a cycling team on a training camp.
43:43 – Inter and intra individual differences in users
46:28 – Learnings from lab studies Kristina has done using Supersapiens
50:51 – Studies currently being done using Supersapiens
52:26 – Advice for new users to Supersapiens
54:23 – Why is stable glucose important?
58:17 – How Supersapiens approaches its work with professional teams and the need to limit variables
59:40 – Kristina’s favorite part of the Supersapiens app and the Dashboard
61:34 – What Kristina has learned from using Supersapiens personally
63:16 – Kristina’s realization of the impact of stress on her glucose
65:04 – Why context matters for glucose levels
67:07 – Low baseline glucose in Kristina and other users
69:30 – The difference between the level of glucose based on how you got there
70:20 – What glucose looks like during strength training
71:35 – How to use GPZ as a feature In the Supersapiens app
72:54 – How does a user know what to set their GPZ to?
75:22 – Rush round
78:22 – What are the medals behind Kristina?
81:00 – Outro