Dr. Peter Attia

In fact, would you agree that sometimes some of the most gifted athletes actually have horrible patterns of movement, but because they're so gifted, it doesn't seem to matter? Yeah.

In fact, would you agree that sometimes some of the most gifted athletes actually have horrible patterns of movement, but because they're so gifted, it doesn't seem to matter? Yeah.

Yeah, the jumping is a great example because if I go back to when I was in my sort of training peak, so basically age 13 to 20, call it those years when I was training a lot, jumping was an enormous part of what I did. There wasn't a day that I wasn't jumping. So for example, I was skipping rope 25 minutes every single day. You know, lots of those are doubles. So you're really up there.

Yeah, the jumping is a great example because if I go back to when I was in my sort of training peak, so basically age 13 to 20, call it those years when I was training a lot, jumping was an enormous part of what I did. There wasn't a day that I wasn't jumping. So for example, I was skipping rope 25 minutes every single day. You know, lots of those are doubles. So you're really up there.

Absurd amounts of plyometrics. And then from basically 20 to my mid 40s, didn't jump at all. Not a single jump. That became one of the realizations was, oh, you've lost a lot of tissue pliability. As one example, now something that I do a lot of is low level jumping. You're right. Sometimes I get really worried. I'm like, oh man, I don't want to have an Achilles rupture.

Absurd amounts of plyometrics. And then from basically 20 to my mid 40s, didn't jump at all. Not a single jump. That became one of the realizations was, oh, you've lost a lot of tissue pliability. As one example, now something that I do a lot of is low level jumping. You're right. Sometimes I get really worried. I'm like, oh man, I don't want to have an Achilles rupture.

Like that's the middle-aged man injury. Oh yeah. Playing soccer with my kid and I'm just waiting for it.

Like that's the middle-aged man injury. Oh yeah. Playing soccer with my kid and I'm just waiting for it.

That's right. Because all I'd been doing in the intervening 25 years was swimming, cycling- Non-impact, non-impact. Hiking, which is fine, but it's still not jumping. It's not reactive.

That's right. Because all I'd been doing in the intervening 25 years was swimming, cycling- Non-impact, non-impact. Hiking, which is fine, but it's still not jumping. It's not reactive.

And so part of what made me start to realize this was as my kids got old enough and I was now playing sports with them, when you play basketball, soccer, and baseball with kids, you realize exactly what you just said. It's not a predictable movement. It's never the same movement exactly twice.

And so part of what made me start to realize this was as my kids got old enough and I was now playing sports with them, when you play basketball, soccer, and baseball with kids, you realize exactly what you just said. It's not a predictable movement. It's never the same movement exactly twice.

Which actually gets to this idea that people listening to us are probably very familiar with, which is the centenary in decathlon. Give me some of the things on your centenary in decathlon.

Which actually gets to this idea that people listening to us are probably very familiar with, which is the centenary in decathlon. Give me some of the things on your centenary in decathlon.

Wrestling?

Wrestling?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not a pile driver.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not a pile driver.

When you're in your marginal decade, how many pounds would be your expectation? Give me some numbers. How many miles, how many pounds?

When you're in your marginal decade, how many pounds would be your expectation? Give me some numbers. How many miles, how many pounds?