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Longevity Practice

What knowledge workers get wrong about training

The cardio-versus-strength false dichotomy and the minimum effective dose

For people whose job involves sitting and thinking, exercise tends to be approached as an aesthetic project or a discharge of accumulated stress. Neither lens captures what the evidence suggests should actually be on the calendar.

#exercise #zone-2 #deep-work #vo2-max #hormesis

By Mick

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Longevity Practice

VO2 max and the all-cause mortality curve

One of the strongest signals in longevity science, and what to do about it

Across multiple large cohorts, cardiorespiratory fitness emerges as one of the most powerful predictors of all-cause mortality — comparable in effect size to smoking. The data is unusually clean. The training implications are unusually concrete.

#vo2-max #mortality #zone-2 #exercise #biomarkers #healthspan

By Mick

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