Andrew Huberman· PhD
but striding sounds like something that people could work up to how do you know after doing the uh skip workout that you described that you're quote unquote ready to stride and start doing a stride workout and I should mention that the these workouts because we did one yesterday um you finish them feeling great this is an aspect of exercise that I think most people don't talk about unfortunately that this leave it all on the mat you know you take every set to failure in the gym or your you know these long runs where you're just shredded they they're not great for teaching people how to be healthy because people are exhausted afterwards they're tired they overtrain quickly and then people say there's no such thing as overtraining it's like yeah if you can sleep all day eat all day and your profession is to do this but there is such a thing as having a stressful life and wanting to be healthy and exercising and trying to incorporate that in a way that feeds the rest of your life yeah and I think these workouts that we did the workout we did yesterday excuse me um left me feeling you know posturally energetically mood Wise It's feeling great I slept great last night felt great this morning had a great workout in the gym as I mentioned earlier so I want to encourage people to give this a try and in doing that I want to give them a road map so a warmup of 10 to 15 minutes 50 meter or so skip um could they do it on lawn dirt or concrete does it matter no it doesn't great yeah if you've a really flat grass perfect okay but if if you don't and do it on concrete no problem okay so basically no cost to this except a little bit of time and attention um 10 to 15 of those you know 50 m out walk back repeat after a warm up and if you need a little bit longer recovery than the probably 90 seconds it takes to walk back take it not a big deal the quality here is a determining Factor as you said you're not trying to get really fatigued from plyometric work this is