Peter Attia

At the other end of the spectrum, if you’re someone like me who has been exercising since kindergarten, I promise you these chapters will offer you insights about how to better structure your program—not to achieve a faster marathon time or bragging rights at your gym, but to live a longer and better life, and most important, a life in which you can continue enjoying physical activity well into your later years.

Study after study has found that regular exercisers live as much as a decade longer than sedentary people.

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Just as with VO2 max, it is important to maintain muscle mass at all costs.

Exercise in all its forms is our most powerful tool for fighting this misery and reducing our risk of death across the board.

As Centenarian Decathletes, we are no longer training for a specific event, but to become a different sort of athlete altogether: an athlete of life.

particular regions of this continuum: long, steady endurance work, such as jogging or cycling or swimming, where we are training in what physiologists call zone 2, and maximal aerobic efforts, where VO2 max comes into play.

This is why it’s so essential to train VO2 max in addition to zone 2. I

Our goal is to become elite athletes of aging.

by supplementing our zone 2 work with one or two VO2 max workouts per week.