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Lesson 19 — Training for Eighty

The last decade decides

Attia's centenarian decathlon asks what you want to be able to do at eighty — lift a grandchild, carry luggage, get off the floor — then reverse-engineers today's training.

Four pillars

Strength, aerobic base, stability and metabolic health. Sleep, per Walker, is the substrate all four sit on; skip it and the rest degrades.

Guard the joints

Longevity training rewards consistency over intensity. The injury you avoid at forty is the decade you keep at seventy.

The Test

All questions must be correct for the lesson to log.

1. The centenarian decathlon works by:

2. Which is described as the substrate under all training pillars?