{"id":27362,"date":"2025-05-07T22:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27362"},"modified":"2025-05-07T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:25:07","slug":"how-to-train-for-the-last-decade-of-your-life-according-to-peter-attia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27362","title":{"rendered":"How to Train for the Last Decade of Your Life, According to Peter Attia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The physician, writer and longevity influencer offered his tips to prepare for old age now.<\/p>\n

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By the last decade of our lives, many of us are already in ill health. But Dr. Peter Attia, a physician and longevity influencer, doesn\u2019t believe it has to be that way.<\/p>\n

Our later years, he argues, are something we can start training for now.<\/p>\n

At the New York Times Well Festival on Wednesday, Dr. Attia said that the way to increase your odds of enjoying that decade as much as possible was \u201cto be very deliberate about how you would prepare for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Attia said he talked with his patients about training for \u201ca centenarian decathlon.\u201d The idea is to make a list of the 10 most important \u2014 and most difficult \u2014 physical activities or movements you want to be able to do in the last decade of life.<\/p>\n

For him, these include being able to walk easily, drive a racecar (Dr. Attia is an avid Formula 1 fan) and sit on the floor to play with children without needing help getting back up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For many of his patients, he said, sex, dancing, and living independently are often high on the list. \u201cTo be able to dance is actually a very complicated physical and cognitive task as you age,\u201d Dr. Attia said.<\/p>\n

Depending on where they are starting out, he said, people in their 40s might need to do certain types of training now \u2014 jumping exercises, for example, or balance-building activities \u2014 to be able to still dance in their 80s.<\/p>\n

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The physician, writer and longevity influencer offered his tips to prepare for old age now.By the last decade of our lives, many of us are already in ill health. But Dr. Peter Attia, a physician and longevity influencer, doesn\u2019t believe it has to be that way.Our later years, he argues, are something we can start training for now.At the New York Times Well Festival on Wednesday, Dr. Attia said that the way to increase your odds of enjoying that decade as much as possible was \u201cto be very deliberate about how you would prepare for it.\u201dDr. Attia said he talked with his patients about training for \u201ca centenarian decathlon.\u201d The idea is to make a list of the 10 most important \u2014 and most difficult \u2014 physical activities or movements you want to be able to do in the last decade of life.For him, these include being able to walk easily, drive a racecar (Dr. Attia is an avid Formula 1 fan) and sit on the floor to play with children without needing help getting back up.For many of his patients, he said, sex, dancing, and living independently are often high on the list. \u201cTo be able to dance is actually a very complicated physical and cognitive task as you age,\u201d Dr. Attia said.Depending on where they are starting out, he said, people in their 40s might need to do certain types of training now \u2014 jumping exercises, for example, or balance-building activities \u2014 to be able to still dance in their 80s.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27364,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27365,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362\/revisions\/27365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}