Exercise does indeed improve mitochondrial efficiency, but it has to be the right kind of exercise. Zone two training is aerobic steady state activity that is right at the threshold of lactate production at the mitochondria. If you don't want to do what I like to do, which is actually measure lactate production while exercising, a very simple heuristic for doing this is assessing your perceived exertion during exercise and making sure you're at the following threshold. You are able to speak, but you don’t want to. Well, let's get the vocabulary. So you all could go do this next week.

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