Alex Hutchinson

I would say, so in terms of the Zone 2 stuff, I think it's true that it's a very effective way of both getting fit for performance and also for metabolic health, maybe more importantly. Yeah. My main quibble with it would be I think it's been sometimes prescribed in an overly specific way. It's not like zone 2 is magic and zone 2.1 is nothing and zone 1.9 is you might as well not get out of bed.

In fact, there's a new paper that just came out from a panel of experts in the last week or two. that among other things makes this point that they're saying that their consensus is like zone 2.5, zone 3.5, it's a continuum. And so you don't need to stress about it. I actually, I wrote about zone two for the New York times.

In fact, there's a new paper that just came out from a panel of experts in the last week or two. that among other things makes this point that they're saying that their consensus is like zone 2.5, zone 3.5, it's a continuum. And so you don't need to stress about it. I actually, I wrote about zone two for the New York times.

In fact, there's a new paper that just came out from a panel of experts in the last week or two. that among other things makes this point that they're saying that their consensus is like zone 2.5, zone 3.5, it's a continuum. And so you don't need to stress about it. I actually, I wrote about zone two for the New York times.

I don't know, last month, maybe I'm trying to make this point that it's like, yeah, it's good, but don't, don't, you know, you don't have to like be pricking your fingers to test lactate every two minutes to make sure you don't accidentally get out of zone two. Now I was thinking like, I was a little worried that I'd created a straw man.

I don't know, last month, maybe I'm trying to make this point that it's like, yeah, it's good, but don't, don't, you know, you don't have to like be pricking your fingers to test lactate every two minutes to make sure you don't accidentally get out of zone two. Now I was thinking like, I was a little worried that I'd created a straw man.

I don't know, last month, maybe I'm trying to make this point that it's like, yeah, it's good, but don't, don't, you know, you don't have to like be pricking your fingers to test lactate every two minutes to make sure you don't accidentally get out of zone two. Now I was thinking like, I was a little worried that I'd created a straw man.

I was like, do people really believe that you have to be this precise? And I got an email afterwards from someone who was saying, thank God you wrote this. This morning I was out for my run and I was sprinting down a hill because I wanted to keep my heart rate high enough to stay at the magical zone too. And I tripped. And I fell.

I was like, do people really believe that you have to be this precise? And I got an email afterwards from someone who was saying, thank God you wrote this. This morning I was out for my run and I was sprinting down a hill because I wanted to keep my heart rate high enough to stay at the magical zone too. And I tripped. And I fell.

I was like, do people really believe that you have to be this precise? And I got an email afterwards from someone who was saying, thank God you wrote this. This morning I was out for my run and I was sprinting down a hill because I wanted to keep my heart rate high enough to stay at the magical zone too. And I tripped. And I fell.

And as I was walking home bleeding, my watch kept beeping at me, telling me that I was outside of zone two. And I was thinking to myself, there has to be a better way. And I was like, okay, it wasn't this drawn in. There are people who have taken this very literally that you have to be exactly at the magical zone two. And I don't think that's correct.

And as I was walking home bleeding, my watch kept beeping at me, telling me that I was outside of zone two. And I was thinking to myself, there has to be a better way. And I was like, okay, it wasn't this drawn in. There are people who have taken this very literally that you have to be exactly at the magical zone two. And I don't think that's correct.

And as I was walking home bleeding, my watch kept beeping at me, telling me that I was outside of zone two. And I was thinking to myself, there has to be a better way. And I was like, okay, it wasn't this drawn in. There are people who have taken this very literally that you have to be exactly at the magical zone two. And I don't think that's correct.

But the idea of, I think this is like a great misunderstanding is that

But the idea of, I think this is like a great misunderstanding is that

But the idea of, I think this is like a great misunderstanding is that

endurance athletes train hard all the time and in fact it's like 80 of the time out there conversational pace having a having a laugh and and uh maybe not enjoy enjoying it in the way that the effort paradox allows us to enjoy it which is that we're doing a challenge we're doing something somewhat difficult but not killing ourselves then 20 of the time you go out and you try and find god by pushing yourself really hard but uh but not all the time zone two is still king

endurance athletes train hard all the time and in fact it's like 80 of the time out there conversational pace having a having a laugh and and uh maybe not enjoy enjoying it in the way that the effort paradox allows us to enjoy it which is that we're doing a challenge we're doing something somewhat difficult but not killing ourselves then 20 of the time you go out and you try and find god by pushing yourself really hard but uh but not all the time zone two is still king

endurance athletes train hard all the time and in fact it's like 80 of the time out there conversational pace having a having a laugh and and uh maybe not enjoy enjoying it in the way that the effort paradox allows us to enjoy it which is that we're doing a challenge we're doing something somewhat difficult but not killing ourselves then 20 of the time you go out and you try and find god by pushing yourself really hard but uh but not all the time zone two is still king

Zone 2, yeah, but it's the largest component, or somewhere near it, is the largest component of the trading.