Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Cummings

and as always I am here with Ben Bergeron every week on the show. We dedicate some time

to exploring how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We answer

your questions about the five actors of health that I have deep on living a life of excellence

and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so much

for joining us again. How are you Ben? I'm doing great Patrick. Thank you. We've got a good

episode ahead. We're going to start as we always do with our warm-up which is when we answer your

questions about the five factors of health, those few fundamental behaviors that most positively

affect our performance, vitality and longevity those five factors in case you are new is how we eat,

how we move, how we think, how we connect with each other and how we recover. We've got one

question for each one of those factors. Let's jump right into it with a question about the move

factor. I am a 25 year old female looking to optimize for longevity while I'm otherwise fit and

healthy. I've tend to neglect strength training but want to finally set aside excuses and commit.

Where would you start with an absolute beginner when it comes to strength training for longevity?

For starters, the fact that a 25 year old is looking to optimize for longevity is a pretty mature

25 year old. I don't think that's the majority of the 20-somethings out there. I think they're

looking to optimize for other things. So kudos to the listener. Okay, so for an absolute beginner.

So I'm assuming that somebody that's never been to the gym, never worked with moving external loads.

She just says she's otherwise fit and healthy. So I'm guessing like done some yoga, maybe done some

5k, just a beginner. But never used a barbell, never done any sort of strength training. So

that's where I would start is I would buy or go to a gym and start

using an empty barbell. That's really what it is. In terms of like what do I mean by that?

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