Thanks for all your clearly laid out advice and experience Gordo...Exercise when approached from the correct stance is so easy though that stance can often be on shifting sands 💪
It's great that discussion of this is becoming popular - with Peter Attia, Andy Galpin, almost any physiologist doing a podcast, and now even GCN (with their 'look at this ex-cyclist in his 40s who let himself go now try to do the right thing' series with Dan) - more 'regular' people need to take the idea of preserving (or even improving) VO2 and LBM to heart.
Interesting perspective and congrats on such a great test result! But I’m wondering, are we talking about muscle mass in general or specifically like heart muscle? Because I don’t believe bodybuilders necessarily have a super high vo2max just because they have that much muscle… so I’m wondering about the details of what actually drives the increase in this number..
Firstly maintain the muscle you have..Just activate it for periods. The recovery needed is very small . If you need to build more then take it slow and just activate more(brain muscle connection)... my advice . don't do so much that it interferes with sleep ...I like body assisted pullups using my legs if needed and also my arms I use so can do single leg squat and accelerate on the push up part of that squat...Setting up a pair of Olympic rings with a stool under neath makes this cheap and easy also allowing for leg raises for the abs....also great for dead hangs which keep the shoulders and lower back super healthy
Functional muscle mass - the furthest I swung towards strength was a 50:50 split between cardio and strength Most my life, I roll along with 10-20% of my training time allocated to strength In a high cardio focus period, strength drops to 5-10% of total time. G
Thanks for all your clearly laid out advice and experience Gordo...Exercise when approached from the correct stance is so easy though that stance can often be on shifting sands 💪
It's great that discussion of this is becoming popular - with Peter Attia, Andy Galpin, almost any physiologist doing a podcast, and now even GCN (with their 'look at this ex-cyclist in his 40s who let himself go now try to do the right thing' series with Dan) - more 'regular' people need to take the idea of preserving (or even improving) VO2 and LBM to heart.
Interesting perspective and congrats on such a great test result! But I’m wondering, are we talking about muscle mass in general or specifically like heart muscle? Because I don’t believe bodybuilders necessarily have a super high vo2max just because they have that much muscle… so I’m wondering about the details of what actually drives the increase in this number..
Firstly maintain the muscle you have..Just activate it for periods. The recovery needed is very small . If you need to build more then take it slow and just activate more(brain muscle connection)... my advice . don't do so much that it interferes with sleep ...I like body assisted pullups using my legs if needed and also my arms I use so can do single leg squat and accelerate on the push up part of that squat...Setting up a pair of Olympic rings with a stool under neath makes this cheap and easy also allowing for leg raises for the abs....also great for dead hangs which keep the shoulders and lower back super healthy
Functional muscle mass - the furthest I swung towards strength was a 50:50 split between cardio and strength
Most my life, I roll along with 10-20% of my training time allocated to strength
In a high cardio focus period, strength drops to 5-10% of total time.
G