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The Mistake People Make With Fitness

 This is a profound change in quality of life, and a lot of it has to do with a loss of this type of strength. I don't have a fraction of the explosive power I had at 25. Once you lose explosive strength, you start to lose overall strength. And once you lose that, you're going to start to lose muscle size is the very last thing. Like, what's the single most important exercise you could do if you could only do one? What did you clue as a consequence of going through the literature with regards to, say, uh, weightlifting rather than cardiovascular exercise? No metric is more highly associated with living a long life.  Just this is purely based on length of life. There's no metric anywhere in the medical literature that's more highly correlated with this than having a high v o two max. Vo two max is a measure of your peak cardiorespiratory fitness. However, the second most highly correlated metric of length of life is a composite metric of strength and muscle mass. So,...