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Peter Attia
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June 2 - July 6, 2024
The beauty of this is that VO2 max can always be improved by training, no matter how old you are. Don’t believe me? Then let me introduce you to an amazing Frenchman named Robert Marchand,15 who set an age-group world record in 2012 by cycling 24.25 kilometers in an hour, at the age of 101. Apparently, he wasn’t satisfied with that performance, so he decided he needed to train harder. Following a strict program designed by top coaches and physiologists, he managed to boost his VO2 max from an already-impressive 31 ml/kg/min up to 35 ml/kg/min, which would put him in the elite 2.5 percent of
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