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 .
And I think a lot of people sometimes spend too little or too much time in this zone . And we want to kind of help you understand what that sweet spot might look like , assuming that you're not training specifically for athletic events that require unusual levels of fitness around that energy system . But again , if you're really just talking about being the fittest healthiest person you need to be to be kind of a kick ass 90 year old .
Question , not two . What is Peter's approach to Zone five training ? What about other aerobic training protocols ?
Life is zone one , zone two and zone five . And so by training , zone two and zone five , obviously much more in zone two than zone five , we're really teeing ourselves up metabolically and also structurally to do these things based on what you know , today , what do you wish you would have implemented when it comes to physical conditioning slash training when you were at the age of 25 ? To make the question more general ?
What is Peter's approach to Zone five training ? What about other aerobic training protocols ? I love this .
