Peter Attia

Whereas if I had just sat on a bike and pedaled around, that doesn't actually replicate any of the movements I'm going to do when I start loading myself.

Yeah.

No, I mean, that's one way to increase your risk of injury for sure.

But yes, there are other ways that it can happen.

And I think about it a lot.

I mean, one of the injuries I think a lot about are calf injuries, Achilles injuries, sort of tendon injuries.

This is, I think, one of the things that becomes a real problem for people as they age.

You know, you often hear about people my age

tearing an Achilles.

It's a devastating injury.

Now, again, it's not devastating in that you won't recover from it, but boy, it's going to take you out of commission for six months.

So a lot of these injuries happen because the individual still has strength, but they've kind of lost some of the pliability in the tendon because they've kind of lost some of the jumping.

That's why I always start these workouts with low level of jumping because

And I'll progress to higher levels of jumping.

But jumping is actually a very important part of training.

And it's one of the things that we take for granted.

But boy, when your ability to jump is gone.

And jumping, by the way, can mean like just initiating a jump.

But it can also mean jumping off something and stopping yourself.

Those are really important skills.