Ages 40-49
🟦 Blue standards: Above average
🟩 Green standards: 90th percentile
⬛️ Black standards: 98-99th percentile
Green standards of 🫀 🛡️ 🏹 💪 are the long-term goals of a Longevity Athlete.
Achieving the green standards gives you a longevity fortress that is stronger than 90% of the population.
Until you hit green, don’t just maintain your fortress. Make your fortress higher. Train.
🫀Cardio Standards
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🟦
Blue
OR Resting Heart Rate 65 beats per minute or under
60th Percentile for VO2 Max
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Green
90th Percentile for VO2 Max
OR
Resting Heart Rate 50 beats per minute or under
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⬛
Black
99th Percentile for VO2 Max
AND
RHR 45 beats per minute or under
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To get the percentile of your VO2 Max score:
calculator.thelongevitydude.com
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🛡️Strength Standards
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🟦
Blue
Essential Strength
- 60 second hang on bar
- 2 Pull-ups
- 25 pushups
- 3 Back Squats with bar only, perfect form
- 3 Front Squats with bar only, perfect form
- Dead-lift with bar only. Perfect form. Trap-bar recommended. Or Romanian Deadlift with bar. Or 20 lb. dumbbells
Balanced Strength
- Jefferson Curl Perfect Form, bar only
- Pullover Perfect form, 15 pounds
- Powell Raise 5% BW perfect form
- External rotator cuff 5% of BW, 8 reps
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✅
Green
- 120 second hang on bar
- 10 Pull-ups
- Seated Good Morning barbell, stomach to bench
- External rotator cuff 10% of BW, 8 reps
- One of back squat, front squat for zercher squat at 100% BW 5 reps.
- Bench press 85% of BW for 5 reps
- Tib Bar 15% BW or
- Tib raise 30 reps, heels 2 feet from wall
- Seated Calf Machine 50% BW
- Cable Reverse Squat 50% BW
- Powell Raise 10% BW
- Neck Press 8 reps, 50% BW
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