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Their wordsBut there is a downside to being very precise about a prescription: the prescription can start to sound more important than the objective it was designed to serve.
Their wordsVO2 max, the peak of our triangle, is one of the strongest predictors of all cause mortality at any age, reliably predicts the physical activities we can take part in in our daily lives, and slowly decreases as we age.
Their wordsThis is what tells us how to train: as the practical constraint on volume changes, so too does the appropriate tool.
Their wordsZone 2 isn’t a secret physiological lever, nor does it provide some sort of mitochondrial magic that only exists at this intensity.