Do you care about your longevity?
If you care to live longer or improve your exercise routine, cardio should be on your mind…READ ON
We need to clarify what we mean by cardio. Most people think cardio is lung busting effort on a bike or running. I’m referring to zone 2 training or low HR training. For most people, that’s a fast walk. For aerobically “fit” individuals, it’s an “easy run”.
What’s zone 2 training?
Zone 2 or aerobic training is exercise performed in the presence of oxygen, burning fat for energy, and considered an easy effort, a 3/10 on the RPE scale
At this effort, blood lactate (more on this another time) remains steady. This is why most healthy people can exercise at this level for hours.
Why should we care?
Zone 2 training not only improved your performance, it also is prevention of some of the most common diseases. Poor metabolic health is linked to Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, dementia, cancer and more. Metabolism refers to how our cells make energy. If the energy pathways are derailed by poor health, it will lead to disease. Insulin resistance is the mechanism of many of these diseases (more on this another time). Essentially we care about 3 things:
1) number of mitochondria
2) the metabolic flexibility: ability to process fat and carb
3) Mitochondrial efficiency: how well fat and carb are processed
Zone 2 training improved all these.
It also decreases your risk of injury due to decreased physical stress on your musculoskeletal system.
Let’s have a chat and take a look at you to see what kind of “longevity” physical therapy program you need to be on.
Just send a response to this email and we will get you on the books.
Stay tuned on how to estimate your zone 2.
Best In Health!
Your OrthoWell family
P.S. Any pain? Come on in for some some TLC. Our manual therapy only session is just $50. We can Graston, Cup, and Stretch out the tight and get you feelin’ right! ha