PACE

I've started to integrate exercise into FAST-5. This morning I did intervals. Three of them. First interval took my heart rate to 130. Second interval to heart rate 140. Third interval to heart rate 150. This workout is based on Al Sear's PACE workout and / or Irving Dardik's Lifewaves workout. The idea is that at the peak of exercise (e.g., at higher heart rates), you build reserve lung and cardiovascular capacity, and create "waves of health." Dardik postulates that the common variable across all chronic diseases is diminished maximum heart rate and decreased difference between resting heart rate and maximum heart rate. Thus, a way to attenuate or stave off chronic dis-ease is to continually work at boosting max heart rate and boosting the difference between max heart rate and resting heart rate. What I like about these workouts is that: 1) I feel good at the end of the workout, and 2) that the workouts are short. More tomorrow.