Dr. Peter Attia reveals the essential exercise that everyone over 65 should be doing to stay strong, independent, and live longer. This isn’t just about fitness—it’s about extending your healthspan. In this eye-opening conversation from The Diary of a CEO, Attia explains how aging doesn’t mean slowing down—it means training smarter.
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Once you reach the age of 65
Which that ain't that far. I mean, you know 65 year olds all day long. That's not a that's not a very old person
Yeah, once you reach the age of 65
your
Mortality from a fall that results in a broken hip or femur is
15 to 30 percent
Think just think it's such a staggering number
So you're over 65 you fall and that fall results in the break of a femur or hip
There's a 15 to 30 percent chance you'll be dead within a year
It could be something very acute like you bet, you know
The fall that's significant enough to do that also bangs your head
It could be that you get a fat embolism. You get a blood clot
It could be that you know during the recovery process of this you just never really get better. You never thrive again
I think a more disturbing statistic is that of all the people who survive
50% will never again regain the level of function they had before the end
There are lots of things that account for that Andy Galpin who you mentioned a moment ago
Talks a lot about this, but it's a lot of it comes down to foot explosiveness power
So the reason you're not really afraid of falling like when was the last time you were walking and you your your foot caught something?
And you you slipped
Why don't you fall when that happens?
You have the power in your foot to readjust when you lose your step you step off a curb not realizing it
It doesn't matter a very very specific muscle fiber that is responsible for that. It's called the type to be muscle fiber
That is the first fiber that atrophies when you age power is a fraction of what it was 20 years ago now
I fight like hell based on the exercises I do to try to make to try to keep it as high as possible
So the reason that these you know people who were in their 70s are falling all the time is
People think it's a balance thing. It's not just a balance thing, right?
It's that they're undergoing the same insult you and I undergo on a daily basis
But the difference is their probability of being able to catch it either through the explosiveness of their foot or their lower leg
Coupled with maybe not being able to grab on to something as quickly and adjust
It's a power deficit problem
Jumping is a really important way to generate power. So if you're just doing a vertical jump, that's a that's power
There are lots of exercises that are great for balance
Anything that produces instability is great because it's you know for lack of a better term
I've heard it described as problem-solving for your foot
So so if you think about being on any unstable surface, even if you're just walking on an unstable surface
So if you if you were to look at a person's foot their lower leg actually as they're walking on a surface
That's constantly changing. So like a gravel path or something like that
You're going to see like if this were my lower leg
You would see the musculature of the lower leg constantly adjusting to it
And so yeah, I'm I really enjoy things that force that type of training
