Objective Metrics for Cardiovascular Health

yeah. And I, and I think everything, everything has a time and a place, right? So if you are overweight and you're resting heart rates really high and your sleep's really shit and your HRV is low and you're inflamed and you know, you're not feeling good and you have no capacity to actually no work capacity. You actually, you do a lift and it takes you 10 minutes to recover and you can't actually get more than three things done in a workout. It's probably a good time to do some cardio, but I always use, you can use objective and subjective metrics for this, like objective being, I have quantifiable data. I can attribute either a range or a number or a value and the subject of being more about touchy feely shit. Right. So like if you say I don feel good I feel out of shape I feel fatigued Okay that all subjective But and that really important But let put some objective markers too Oh you have stage two hypertension Your resting heart rate is like 95. Your sleep score is really shit. Your HRV is in the dump. Oh, look at your labs. Your blood fats, trigs are all crap. It's probably time to do some cardio. But I think everybody should do a minimal amount of cardio, just like I think everybody should do a minimal amount of not resistance, training. That's the thing that I like to do, but that all you need to do is apply tension to the muscle. So if you like to do calisthenics, if you like to do movement stuff, crawl around an animal flow, do it. If you like to do like pull-ups at the park, do it. The, the, the only thing the brain knows about this is something is applying tension to the muscles. The joints are opening and closing and the muscle is lengthening and shortening. Your brain doesn't know a barbell curl or your brain doesn't understand a pull-up versus a pull-down. Like, yes, the motor sequencing is different, but your brain, your brain's not going, hey, are we doing this or that today? All it knows is, hey, my lats, my biceps, all this stuff has some type of external load being applied to this. Okay, now I need to get stronger to overcome this because this has kind of been a regular thing week to week. So I think people should find the activities that they're going to be able to be consistent with and enjoy long-term. So it's not like, oh, I'm doing a 12-week program. No, this is what you're doing for the rest of your life. So cardio, yeah, should be part of that. So it's like steps, that's kind of the gateway drug there. But I think steps are being way too overblown now. I think everybody should do probably at least, even the government guidelines for this is pretty good, actually. Like, you know, if I would say if you're getting 150 minutes, some type of mixed cardio between aerobic and maybe some little moderate intensity stuff, you're pretty good. And that's not that big of a deal. You could do 20 minutes of cardio a day and then every other day, switch it up one day, kind of take your heart rate up around 75, 80 for 20 minutes. The next day, do 20 minutes at like 120, 130, mixing some walking there. You got a pretty solid program and it's easy and no muss, no fuss. And it only takes you 20 minutes a day. Right. Yeah. That, that was one thing that you mentioned too. Like, you know, the steps are great and like, you want to stay active, but, but that's like you said, kind of getting a little bit overblown. I feel like at this point in terms of where now people are just doing like crazy amounts of steps and then maybe missing out on saying, doing some of that stuff that kind of gets that heart rate up a little bit more.