AMA: August Edition

You’ll learn: The ideal number of high-intensity workouts to do for your goal; a surprising way to approach exercise while traveling.

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Today’s questions came from two 2% Founding Members.

The first question is: How many intense workouts should I do each week? This answer explores:

• How to tailor intense exercise to your goal.

• The upsides and downsides of hard exercise.

• What constitutes an intense workout? (Definition).

• Research on the effects of high-intensity training.

• How the effects of high-intensity training change as we age.

• How to fit high-intensity exercise into your life depending on how many days a week you exercise.

The second question is: What’s a good exercise protocol for traveling? (Especially air travel, where you can’t bring equipment.) We look at:

• How I approach exercise while traveling.

• How to use hotel gyms better.

• The psychological upsides of re-framing travel workouts.

• The fundamental workout framework you can do in your hotel room or even the worst hotel gym.

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• Show notes featuring deeper descriptions of the information and links.

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