Dr. Andy Galpin

It's like that should never be a reality that you have to deal with.

If you want to be strong and get all the health benefits of that, we can do that in a way that doesn't make you look how you don't want.

If you care or even better yet, hopefully you don't even care.

Hopefully you just look how you ever want to look.

That makes you happy and healthy.

And we can, hopefully by the time my daughter is at that age, that these things don't matter as much.

Going at the longest end of the spectrum,

Everyone wants to live a long, healthy life, of course.

People are aware generally of lifespan and wellness span at this point, right?

But then there's a new awesome term that we call strength span.

And so what this effectively says is your wellness span is going to be dictated in large part by your strength span.

Because as soon as you start losing strength at age, then nothing else will function.

Really easy example here.

Most people are familiar by now with the importance of things like VO2 max, cardiovascular fitness as you age.

This is the entire crux of the wellness span versus lifespan argument.

That said, if we were to go outside right now and walk from the bottom of the stairs all the way up here, right?

And I cut your leg strength down by 80%.

You wouldn't make it up here.

Your cardiovascular system would be going nuts.

You would be at max heart rate and it would have nothing to do with your VO2 max.