Chapter 11 · Nexus Performance Australia
Longevity and VO2 Max for General Population
February 02, 2023
So for gen pop, I always say gen pop can't get aerobic enough. If they're not competing and they're not in a strength sport and they don't care about that, they need to be strong enough for what they want to do. They need to be mobile enough and they need to be pain-free enough and they can probably never get aerobic enough because out of every piece of literature, high VO2 max has been shown to be the number one thing that lower all cause mortality and give you a long life where you're probably not going to be crippled if you don't get in a really bad accident. And that's all going to be based on maximal heart rate and average heart rate and resting heart rate. Yeah. But the heart rate will is pretty transient too. So if you have HIV and heart rate, which they're both associated with each other, you can get a pretty good picture where somebody is. And if you can combine that blood pressure that's even better yeah love that yeah they're all like you said pretty easy to measure and they're all well researched yeah it's not like people are just pulling numbers out of their ass there's a lot of data on heart rate and i think some of the if you if you ask me to pinpoint the best resting heart rate for people i think you would be real surprised at what the literature says um based on longevity and and mortality i you'd be able you'd know but i remember in your, your hypertension course. Like it's like, I think most people would go like, oh yeah, I'll do a hypertension course, get through that easy in a few hours or whatever But you want to remember the amount of data and the amount of advice like the length of the course was huge i forget what it was but it was massive and then it um there's a lot more into it than what uh what people would expect yeah because you've got to talk about i mean you got to talk about the data you got to talk about why it's important how to measure it and all that stuff didn't okay how do we modify it because you have to have practical applicable things to do so um