So without further delay , I hope you enjoy this special episode of the Drive . Mhm Everything we're talking about Bob right now is based on longevity and that's very different than if you were asking this question through the lens of performance . Does that point kind of make sense or should I expand on that a bit ?
Does that point kind of make sense or should I expand on that a bit ? Yeah , I think you should expand a little bit maybe on the performance , health and longevity , particularly performance and longevity and the possible tradeoff between the two . If someone said to me , Peter , my goal is to break two hours and 40 minutes on the Chicago Marathon next year , I would be talking about this in a totally different manner .
If someone said to me , Peter , my goal is to break two hours and 40 minutes on the Chicago Marathon next year , I would be talking about this in a totally different manner . That is a very difficult performance goal and that requires training at an energy system that I'm not even really gonna talk about in the context of longevity . If someone says I want to break 10 hours on the Iron Man , if someone says I want a dead lift 3.5 times my body weight , if you start to really look into the far recesses of amazing physical performance , everything I'm saying needs to be modified and I'm not going to talk about what those things look like .
It is pretty much maximum cardiac output just beneath vo two max above functional threshold . It puts an amazing strain on the body and frankly , while doing that is better than sitting on a couch all day , that is generally past the point of optimizing longevity returns and it actually comes at some longevity cost relative to something more at a slightly lower energy system . So , everything I'm talking about is geared towards this Centenarian Olympics , which we've talked about in the past , this idea of being the most kick ass 90 year old possible .
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