#379 - AMA #79: A guide to cardiorespiratory training at any fitness level to improve healthspan, lifespan, and long-term independence

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So without further delay, here's today's sneak peek of the Ask Me Anything episode. Welcome to Ask Me Anything AMA episode 79. In today's AMA we take a comprehensive look at cardiorespiratory fitness, one of the most common topics we get questions about. And of course an area that is central to not only lifespan but also health span. Now look, we've done a lot of content on this topic, but we wanted to put together an episode that brought it all together in one place and as always to include any of my updated thoughts, something which, of course, I'm constantly updating my thinking on topics and hopefully sharpening it.

So The goal of this episode is to provide a practical guide that allows you to structure your training in a way that meaningfully impacts your health, your functional capacity, and maintains independence as you age. We'll discuss why cardiorespiratory fitness is one of the strongest modophile predictors of health span and lifespan, what zone 2 training actually represents, and why it's different from higher intensity work, and there seems to be Still some confusion about this, how to think about exercise volume, intensity, and the practicality of training in different zones and using different approaches, how to measure and track improvements in zone two specifically, VO2 max targets, age adjusted goals, and planning for the marginal decade, structuring an effective workout routine around your zone two goals and your VO2 max goals, how to balance zone two with higher intensity work across varying weekly training volumes.

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