Peter Attia· MD
so if so my zone two is you know just under three watts per kilo I really want to talk with you about getting over three watts per kilo I'm still Furious because in July remember I was at 2.95 I was just kissing on the door of three and I've actually come back a little bit I've come back you know I'm now at about 2.75 to 2 85 so I've lost a bit no I I think it we're going to talk about training in a moment so but what I notice so and for me I'm at that upper end of maximum heart rate so so I'm going to be doing that at about 80 81% of maximum heart rate but when if I took Propranolol you know 60 milligrams of a Time relase Propranolol I will be able to get over three watts per kilo and I'll do it at a heart rate of 68% of Maximum yeah but it feels horrible yeah I feel like I'm going to die yeah it is the worst feeling in the world it is like somebody has and it's not pain it's it's not like I don't know how to explain it other than it feels like what it feels like when you're overtrained it feels like you just can't you can't get moving it's like an engine that's being taken from 9,000 RPM to 6,000 RPM yeah but yet somehow is able to generate the horsepower but it just doesn't feel right so you know that that's sort of my um uh that's that's my drug cheating way to ramp to get over three watts per kilo but more to illustrate the point right which is when you put the governor on heart rate you can you can get there um at a lower heart rate but it but but there there's just subjectively it's a miserable feeling yeah