The longevity expert reveals how to form -for old age with a “centenary decathlon”

Forget about gold medals: This Decathlon treats your golden years.

Speaking at the New York Times Festival, Stanford’s Longevity expert and student Peter Attia, made the case of an innovative approach to preparing for old age.

Instead of focusing solely on life life, the number of years you are alive, the frame framework of Attia focuses on Healthspan – the living period that is dedicated to good health.

He thinks everyone has a “marginal decade”, that is, the last ten years of your life.

“You really don’t know the day you enter the marginal decade, but most people know it when there are really,” he said.

“The way to increase the likelihood of enjoying this decade is as much as possible to be very deliberate on how it would be prepared for it.”

As such, he advises “training” for old age in the same way as an athlete training for a sport, with the knowledge that a footballer and a basketball player have very different training regimes.

He calls this approach a “centenary decathlon”, joking that it is “neither a decathlon nor something exclusively for centenaries.”

What it means is to make a list of 10 physical activities that you want to do the most, enjoy, during your marginal decade and start training now.

For example, if you want to be able to play on the floor with your grandchildren, who pointed out “really easy”, but “it is really really difficult to sit on the floor when you enter the 80’s,” you have to practice downloading the ground with a single arm to gain support.

You also need to make a period of 30 pounds so that you can pick up a child, especially since muscle strength tends to decrease as we grow old.

If you want to be able to take your dog for a good walk, it aims to reach 10,000 steps a day.

If you want to travel internationally, try to lift a suitcase of 20 pounds and climb 30 stairs without taking a breath.

Big when cooking or swimming? Bring two heavy bags of groceries to several stairs flights and practice out of a pool without a staircase.

The list of everyone is different: the key is to focus on what you value and train the most.

Attia, on the other hand, revealed that some of the articles on his personal list includes: Driving a race car, shooting a bow and arrow, playing with children, being on their own, and being able to walk easily, included in unequal surfaces.

He emphasized that some of these articles are easy to take for granted now, but without training, it can come up with a time when they are incredibly difficult, if not impossible.

And if you believe that dance and sex do not count, you would be wrong.

“Being able to dance is actually a very complicated physical and cognitive task as you grow old,” said Attia.

While everyone’s training will differ based on their personal goals, he believes that, for most people, he will include a combination of aerobics, strength training, equilibrium exercises and cardio.

Outside of physical fitness, some of the other areas it recommends focus on maintaining a healthy diet, sleeping enough, using medicines and recipe supplements as needed and taking good care of your emotional health.