After age 25 or so, the body starts to go downhill unless corrective action is taken. It's as if the body is on auto-pilot the first 25 years, cranking out hormones and keeping everything vital. Then, the slow cascade downward begins.
So what's a person to do? In a nutshell,
- Some type of weight-training to maintain/build muscle mass
- Some type of aerobic training to maintain aerobic capacity (VO2max)
- Some type of sprinting/explosive movements to keep hormone levels up
- Something resembling a Paleo diet to provide the right amounts of calories and nutrients
- A bit of intermittent fasting to facilitate cell/body repair
Of these, I think that sprinting is one of the most important components to be overlooked. In Phil Campbell's excellent book, Ready, Set, Go!, he writes that even though he did weight training and aerobic training, he remained overweight. It wasn't until he added sprint workouts that he achieved his fitness goals.
I do think sprints are a big key in keeping up good hormones, especially in men. Children naturally do a lot of sprints, and so this play-training probably implies that sprints were a part of our hunter-gatherer past. For example, when I was out earlier tonight for a run, I saw a couple of boys down the street passing football and sprinting after each other. It all seemed very playful and natural, and also very healthy. Of course after this, I did a couple of sprints on my way back to the house.
After age 25 or so, the body starts to go downhill unless corrective action is taken. It's as if the body is on auto-pilot the first 25 years, cranking out hormones and keeping everything vital. Then, the slow cascade downward begins.
So what's a person to do? In a nutshell,
Of these, I think that sprinting is one of the most important components to be overlooked. In Phil Campbell's excellent book, Ready, Set, Go!, he writes that even though he did weight training and aerobic training, he remained overweight. It wasn't until he added sprint workouts that he achieved his fitness goals.
I do think sprints are a big key in keeping up good hormones, especially in men. Children naturally do a lot of sprints, and so this play-training probably implies that sprints were a part of our hunter-gatherer past. For example, when I was out earlier tonight for a run, I saw a couple of boys down the street passing football and sprinting after each other. It all seemed very playful and natural, and also very healthy. Of course after this, I did a couple of sprints on my way back to the house.