Is Zone 2 Training Overrated? What the Science Says

First, let's let's do like a very, very quick like we're talking like 60 second kind of what is mitochondria?

They're the part of the cell that is like the powerhouse where the energy is produced.

So they kind of think of them as the little powerhouses of our cell.

They're mitochondria.

They're what's helping us when we eat food, create that energy and into ATP, which we use or convert that into energy that we use

to actually be able to

move the simplistic food.

term, I guess.

I don't want to get too scientific, but I think it's thinking of it like the more mitochondria we have and the more efficient those mitochondria are, the better able to utilize fuel and also fat, you know, fat oxidation and kind of being able to convert that into ATP that we can kind of Makes us go, makes us be able to run further and run faster.

And so this is a really important adaptation and a very helpful thing.

And it's one thing that many people when they're untrained, like especially if you're just starting out, this is a really good adaptation thing.

to work on.

This is an important thing because the more mitochondria that you have and yes, the more they're efficient at what they do, the better you're going to get and the more benefits you're going to see.

So it's a really important thing for athletes and just in general for health.

Thinking from a longevity perspective, this

is very helpful.

Very important.

So it is something that we want to maximize.

There's probably a certain point at which you get to with this adaptation before.

I don't know if you can just continuously create more and more and more mitochondria.

Like it's one of those things where you adapt and you have more mitochondria and they're maybe working more efficiently.

But I don't think you can just continuously maximize this forever forever.

I think it's something you sort of build that adaptation and then you maintain it.

So but for a new athlete, this is important because you're you have a lot of capacity here to improve this, this particular adaptation.

So it shouldn't be worth mentioning versus like if we're taking like we're talking about new athletes versus somebody like myself or you, Justin, or somebody who's been training for quite a while.