[Longevity] How to Train for Health and Performance for the Rest of Your Life w/ Dan Garner, Andy Galpin, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Travis Mash, and Dan Garner #743
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash dive into periodization models and a framework for longevity through the lens of health and performance.
Longevity is a common goal. Unfortunately, it is impossible to define.
How do you know if you are doing it right?
Do you have to wait 40 years to find out all the at effort gave you 10 extra days?
Longevity is great what you really want is a long life filled with performance goals that amounts to a life full of high quality experiences.
In today’s episode we will tackle this exact question so you can stay at the top of your game, while living a long, healthy life.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrud family this week on Barbell Shrugged. |
| 0:03.0 | The home team is back. |
| 0:05.0 | Myself, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Smash, |
| 0:07.0 | today on Barbell Shrugg, we're going to be kind of digging into the idea of longevity. |
| 0:11.0 | And a lot of this dig into at the beginning of the show, but I talked to a lot of people about kind of what their fitness goals are. |
| 0:17.0 | And one of the things that comes up so much, and I think a lot of it's just because it's kind of a big buzz work right now is the idea of longevity. |
| 0:23.4 | People want to live a really long time and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, |
| 0:27.5 | but we have no real way of measuring it. |
| 0:29.8 | We have no way of kind of like putting a plan together that what works for living another 50 years? |
| 0:36.2 | Because what happens if we make all these decisions and then, you know, you live from 100 to |
| 0:40.8 | a hundred and one, but that last 1% of your life, that last, like what are we really getting out of the difference |
| 0:48.0 | between 100 to 101? |
| 0:49.3 | So is longevity really the goal or is it a framework to trying to say like I'd like to |
| 0:54.4 | embrace the challenges of life and be really healthy and be really fit for as long |
| 0:58.6 | as I possibly can which I'm a hundred percent in on and then how do we break that down into smaller components? |
| 1:05.0 | Like, how do we periodize out a year? |
| 1:07.3 | How do we manage the intensities that we're either focused on our nutrition, |
| 1:11.4 | focused on our training, focused on cardiovascular health, focused on our nutrition, our training, focused on cardiovascular health, |
| 1:14.3 | focused on some sort of big event |
| 1:16.0 | that adds a lot of value to your life. |
| 1:17.9 | And I feel like this is a much better conversation |
| 1:20.6 | in the idea or inside the framework of thinking about longevity and that is why we |
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