Get Fit, Not Fried — The Benefits of Zone 2 Cardio

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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When most people work out, they jump right from a resting state called Zone 1 cardio to Zone 3 cardio. But in skipping over Zone 2 cardio altogether, they miss out on a significant range of benefits to their health, fitness, and overall well-being. Here to unpack why you need to make the relatively easy yet hugely beneficial form of exercise that is Zone 2 cardio a big part of your life is Alex Viada, a hybrid athlete and coach. We spend the first twenty minutes of this conversation discussing the physiological science of what cardio zones are and what happens in the body as you move from one zone to the next. From there, we turn to the more accessible and practical elements of getting into Zone 2 cardio. Alex shares the easiest way to know if you're in Zone 2, and we discuss how it can improve heart health, metabolism, sleep, and weight loss, as well as enhance athletic performance, whether you're into endurance sports or powerlifting. We then get into the amount of Zone 2 cardio you should be getting each week and how to get it, including Alex's take on the ever-controversial elliptical machine.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Brett. We had a technical issue with today's episode. We uploaded the episode only half of it appeared
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0:17.1	Brett McKay here in the Walk of the Tunnel Edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:21.2	When most people work out, they jump right from a resting state called Zone 1 cardio to Zone 3 cardio.
0:27.0	But in skipping over Zone 2 cardio altogether, they miss out on a significant range of benefits
0:32.1	to their health, fitness, and overall well-being. Here to unpack, why do you need to make the
0:36.8	relatively easy, yet hugely beneficial form of exercise that is Zone 2 cardio, a big part of your life
0:42.6	is Alex Biotta, a hybrid athlete and coach. We spend the first 20 minutes of this conversation
0:47.8	discussing the physiological science of what cardio zones are and what happens in the body as you move
0:52.4	from one zone to the next. From there, we turn to the more accessible and practical elements of
0:57.0	getting into Zone 2 cardio. Alex shares the easiest way to know if you're in Zone 2, and we discuss
1:02.0	how you can improve your heart health, metabolism, sleep, and weight loss, as well as enhance athletic
1:07.2	performance, whether you're into endurance sports or powerlifting. We then get into the amount of
1:11.6	Zone 2 cardio she's beginning each week and how to get it, including Alex's take on the ever
1:16.0	controversial elliptical machine. After the show's over, check out our show notes at aewim.is-zone2.
1:35.4	All right, Alex Biotta, welcome to the show. Hey, thank you so much, but pleasure to be here.
1:39.6	So you are the founder of Complete Human Performance. This is an educational website where you provide
1:44.7	education and courses on physical fitness, nutrition, but you also provide coaching for triathletes,
1:50.8	powerlifters. You've done some coaching for special operations, guys. Let's talk about your
1:56.9	background. How did you end up doing this where you're coaching not only triathletes, but powerlifters,
2:02.8	but also there's powerlifting triathletes as well. What's the story there?
2:07.1	So, yeah, so I guess the story there, I'd have to have to back up quite a bit, and I'll try to
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