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Training Insights Peter Attia on Zone 2 and Zone 5 Training By Dr. Rick Cohen • Updated September 8, 2025 The overall take away from this article is that you don't need to kill yourself everyday on the bike, treadmill, or weight machines. The correct balance of exercise and physical activity should be slow and easy most of the time and then hard and fast for less of the time. This is how to achieve optimal health, fitness, and longevity benefits. You may also find topics such as the fitness pyramid, the better food pyramid. Zone 1 is 50-60% HRM...

I Tried a Continuous Glucose Monitor for a Month. Here’s What I Learned. Dr. Cohen's Note: I found this article, written by a health & fitness blogger who is also an endurance athlete, interesting because it sheds light on how wearable technology is revolutionizing the future of optimal performance, diet and health. Please give it a read and I think you'll be much better for it afterwards. Enjoy!  *thank you Manya Ronay for providing us this story to share. After learning about the harms of ultra-processed food, I switched my diet to real, whole foods. I thought that if I shopped on...

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How do you fuel for a marathon? EDITOR'S NOTE: Just a quick thanks to SuperSapeins for providing all the content and info needed to make this article happen! For Freddy Ovett, pro cyclist, the Berlin Marathon was about more than a place on a results sheet. For world-record-breaking Eliud Kipchoge, well, it's kind of hard to ignore his place on the results sheet. For SuperSapiens content manager David Lipman, a new bar was set on his personal results sheet. But why do we mention these athletes and what do each of these athletes have in common? A keen awareness of their fueling, how to...