Welcome to the world of the Chronologically Enriched. Here’s but one article Peter Attia has sent me (with true generosity of spirit) on this very topic.
There’s an adage in the exercise world…“You grow up until your 20s…and then you grow old!” The reason why Master Athlete designation begins at 35, I guess. Thing is with even healthy aging, it’s a relatively slow pace early on, gets progressively faster and then speeds up exponentially beginning in about the mid 60s, according to my pal Peter. Although, I understood this as a reality, I didn’t notice it with myself because of the extensive long term training I’d done and continued with. I was totally blindsided by how just a few weeks of being hors de combat after my lapiplasty at the end of October 2020 seemed to have robbed me of every fast twitch muscle fiber I had.
Had a discussion along these lines with my cardiologist on Monday. My 6 months follow up after beginning Repatha. That’s another thing that blindsided me…the degree of coronary artery blockage I discovered just before my 70th birthday. Discussing my exercise regimen and tolerance, it’s apparent that all the teaching, test driving my classes and my own training that I did throughout my 50s and most of my 60s, is what’s kept me stent free…and with the ability to continue doing it.
Peter Attia’s thing is longevity. Specifically what he calls the Centenarian Decathlon. Not literally but rather a list of the things that one would like to still be able to do in the “marginal years”…say the last 5. Analogy being akin to a financial planning regimen I guess. You have to adopt meaningful habits early …or you’ll need to have a financial plan that makes Dave Ramsey look like a spendthrift.