Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

Like, you know, I've definitely gotten some pushback on social media for being the person that likes to talk about going hard or going home.

But I don't necessarily say that.

But I think it's important to just, again, point it out.

It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be vigorous, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's not, you know, it's not meaningless, but...

Boy, it's close when it comes to like reducing disease.

You have to do a lot of it.

You really do.

You have to do a lot of it.

Right, right.

And I also think that, like...

this vigorous activity isn't necessarily like going all out either.

Right.

So like some of these people, if they like going for their leisure walk, very light walk, they can pick up the pace and do some interval walking.

And that is, that is something I think a lot of people, like even people with,

diseases you know and stuff can do right like that's a very like because you if you pick up the pace for like 10 seconds even 20 seconds right um you're doing a little bit of interval walking you're just you're you're just getting you're just cranking it up a little bit and then you can continue your light walking i think that's something that people can experiment with um at home especially the ones that really just love doing their light walking 10 hours a week um you know

So, but that kind of gets, transitions us into this special populations, you know, does, is there any population that we have to be concerned about for doing, you know, vigorous intensity?

And I do get this question a lot from people, older adults, I'm old, can I do a vigorous type of workout?

Again,