There is no reversing the aging process.
If I HIIT it, will I live forever?
Interesting article. My genes say I’m likely to live for a while but I’m intrigued with having better quality of life.
Just thinking about cycling for three days straight makes me tired.
All exercise and low cal whole food diet is good.
Next month I am getting a bicycle to ride to go swimming in the lake.
Get one of these. It can be used for high and low intensity.
I use mine an hour every day. It’s 20 years old and built like a tank.
http://www.concept2.com/indoor-rowers
I’m gonna run her in reverse for about 40 years. I’ll pay attention this time cause I’ve always been amazed I survived my twenties.
Treadmill and weights for me, along with a low-carb diet, shoveling snow in winter and gardening in spring, summer and fall.
The HITT exercise routine basically follows how we, as a society before industrialization, would live. Most rural people would have short periods of hard chores, followed by longer periods of easier chores.
The only person who is not aging is Trump, and he’s not on an exercise program or special diet, as far as I know.
A few sprints per week cause powerful changes in the body - including the cellular mitochondria, which are a key biomarker of aging. The sprints don’t have to be running (if you have a bad joint), but any effort that will leave you exhausted and gasping for air (cycling, rowing). They are hard to recover from, so you can’t do many sprints - but they have powerful effects.
Even a few 30 second “all out” efforts per week are enough to do a lot of good. One way, is to end your aerobic sessions with an all out sprint to the finish. The common way is to cycle intense and recovery intervals in a workout, like 30 seconds hard and one or two minutes easy, 3-12 times (depending on fitness).
If you are competitive in some sport, 3-5 long minute hard intervals (at VO2 Max pace) produce some additional changes that further improves VO2 Max - but for health, general fitness and longevity, short intervals alone are plenty.
It is a common athletic training approach to do short intervals one day per week, and longer intervals another.
“Acting one’s age” and never sprinting allows/causes mitochondria to atrophy - even more than one visibly loses muscles, and even more than one loses bone density, as you age. Lots of the degeneration and diseases associated with aging are from the slowing and thinning out of mitochondria, which are the powerhouses of the cells - including dementia.
So stoke your fires by revving the engines periodically - it gives benefits that no amount of long, slow distance can.
You are and will be who born ya'.
I was a marathoner my whole life. I did strength training and yoga regularly. Until I had to have both knees replaced and a quadruple open-heart bypass and valve repair surgery, where I almost died, 8 years ago. My docs said it was in my genes for my knees and heart to fail at 62 and 63, not the exercise. Both happened to my dad at the same ages and he never exercised a day in his life.
Now I walked briskly for 40 minutes everyday and do weight training 3 times a week. I watch my weight and don't eat any processed carbs, starches or sugars. Sugars are the bane of the human body.
I am 70 years old now but I am mistaken for 54-56 quite regularly. The biggest factors, why I "look" younger? My wife says it's my oily skin (prevents so many wrinkles) and I have a full head of long, thick hair. No balding, thinning spots or receding hairline. My dad died at 80 with a full head of thick hair. He looked 65 or so, when he passed away.
So look to your parents for how you will turn out in old age. Their ailments will be yours as well.
I love my 12 minute HIIT routine. Replaced my gym workout with it. Can do it in my jammies...and really gets my heart rate going...don’t have to get dressed for the gym like I do for Pilates 2x a week.
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