Andrew Huberman· PhD
this study involved having individ ual who were 60 to 79 years old divided into one of two groups one group did cardiovascular exercise the other group did more calisthenics SL stretching type exercise both groups did one hour of exercise three times per week the group that did cardiovascular training initially started off by doing and by the way they just simply called it aerobic training but this could be rowing on the rower this could be running this could be cycling I think for sake of understanding application of tools and protocols you would want to pick any kind of activity that you could do consistently without injuring yourself that's what's really important and that gets your heart rate elevated they started off these individuals with relatively low intensity cardiovascular exercise for that hour getting their heart rate up to about 50% of their maximum heart rate but very quickly had those individuals increase the intensity of those cardiovascular training sessions so they were doing again three 1 hour sessions per week getting their heart rate up to about 75% of their maximum heart rate sometimes a little less 60% sometimes a little bit more but in that General range