Longevity type

TheAthlete

Movement is your medicine. Muscle is your plan.

You feel best after you have moved. Strength training, running, cycling, mountains: your body is your tool and you look after it. Your weakness: recovery and sleep fall short, and whoever always goes full throttle misses the quiet signals.

• Trains four times a week
• Knows their VO2 max
• Sleeps too little
• Eats what the plan says

Your plan

Two strength and two endurance sessions are enough, plus a rest day with a walk, eight hours of sleep and protein at every meal. Blood tests once a year.

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