Are You Overdoing Cardio and HIIT (And Missing Out On the Single Best Fitness Stimulation For Longevity and Fat Loss?)
About this episode
This episode discusses the overemphasis on cardio in fitness programs and highlights the importance of anaerobic exercise for longevity and fat loss.
Are you overemphasizing cardio in your exercise program? The answer for almost everyone out there is yes. We are doing too much cardio at the expense of the most beneficial fitness stimulations by far (as known to exercise physiology, not just my opinion): anaerobic system development, true sprinting competency, and true muscular strength and explosive power. The biggest drivers of accelerated aging are sarcopenia (age-related loss of muscle mass) and dinopenia (age-related loss of muscle power and explosiveness). Falling is essentially the first step in accelerated aging, because the body naturally loses anaerobic muscle power faster than aerobic fitness. This means you can maintain good cardio capacity for decades while becoming increasingly deficient in the qualities that prevent decline and falling—the number one cause of injury and death in Americans over age 65. In this episode, I explain why brief, explosive exercise is the most important and most neglected fitness stimulation, and why so many popular workouts are still overwhelmingly aerobic. I clarify the difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise and share exercise physiology data showing that activities…
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