Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

After you're doing the rowing and then you have to go right into the squat or the cleaning and then doing a front squat.

You have this great quote, train for life, don't live to train, which, I mean, you kind of touched on it a little bit and we're talking about both ends of the spectrum here.

I mean, obviously there are athletes that are training for something, but there's a lot of people listening to this podcast that are not athletes.

They're just interested in being healthy.

Yeah.

Okay, what is the right word?

Yeah, I think there's a lot of people that perhaps don't even play sports.

And I mean, adults here, I'm mostly talking about adults, that are thinking about these statistics in their head, like, oh, I'm 50 years old, I'm 60 years old, my muscle mass is declining, my strength is declining, you know, my cardiorespiratory fitness is declining.

And they're

scared about that aging process and they're trying to battle it and slow it.

And so they're like, well, I need to, you know, put stress on any muscles to get the adaptations.

I need to, you know, make sure I'm growing at the least, maintaining muscle mass, you know, building strength.

I need to make sure I'm, you know, keeping my blood flow going and, you know, challenging my lungs and my heart, right, my cardiorespiratory system.

And so...

For them, like you're saying, the gym is kind of like... Checklist.

A checklist.

Exactly.

It's a checklist.

And so, yeah.

So how should those people think about training?