How Many Hours a Week of Exercise Adds Up To?

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"I want to have sex in my 90s okay so let's just throw a number other and say six hours a week total exercise," he says. "Once I saw your VO2 max saw your zone 2 output I'm gonna assume you'd fail our strength test miserably" He adds that most people do even people who come at it with a strength training background, which is why virtually everybody fails at 40. We would focus on some movement preparation so we would first do a movement assessment and then spend 20% of that three hours on exercises to correct the movement patterns for runners.

Peter Attia had a problem. It was 2006. He'd recently graduated from Stanford's medical school and was completing a prestigious surgical residency at Johns Hopkins, but instead of celebrating his success, he was tormented by frustrations.

The medical establishment, it seemed to him, was stubbornly resistant to change and innovation; doctors could easily diagnose the maladies that kill most of us — heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, and type 2 diabetes — but they struggled to help their patients avoid those diagnoses in the first place. Peter believed there had to be another approach. He was convinced it was possible to practice a cutting-edge form of medicine that didn't just manage diseases but tried to prevent them. So he embarked on a journey to figure out how to do it.

Now, nearly two decades later, he's compiled everything he learned on that journey in a book, the #1 New York Times bestseller "Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity." It's a comprehensive guide to exercise, nutrition, sleep, and mental health that'll help you live better for longer.

Peter Attia is the founder of Early Medicine and host of "The Drive."

(This is part one of a two-part episode. Check back next Thursday for the second installment.)

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