You aren’t ever getting your cardio back to the level where you can attain 85% of you maximal HR for 4 minutes, so don’t worry about it.

Your max HR goes down year by year, so actually you can. It’s just a lower number, but the benefit is the same.

Still, it needs to be worked up to. I’m old, too, so I know whereof I speak.

I need to lose 15 lbs or so, but that would require me to stop drinking, which would require me to stop rooting for the Knicks. Not happening!

I hear you loud and clear.

My V02 max is basically telling me I’m a dead man walking.

Nonsense…. only if you want to be. Only 3 things need to be done to be “healthy” under generl circumstances:

1) Walk briskly for 40 minutes Every. Fucking.Day without exception.

2) Do some resistance training as you age you need to maintasin functional strength and muscle mass . Something as simple as getting up and down out of a chair without using your arms 20 times a day for your quads, toe raises for your calves, some planks for your core, etc. Nothing fancy and no need for fancy equipment.

3) Most importantly… Eat only whole foods and no self medicating. Nothing processed in any way. No restaurant food. I don’t care if your diet is carnivore, keto or vegan, if it is processed, flush it. If it grows from the ground or walks or flies, have at it. If it has an ingredient list six miles long, toss it.

Don’t worry about Norwegian 4x4s which 70 year old guys can’t do without literally years of training. You aren’t ever getting your cardio back to the level where you can attain 85% of you maximal HR for 4 minutes, so don’t worry about it. Walking briskly for 40 minutes will get you back into Zone 2 which is fine for general health.

aren’t we in the golden age of parity? The last 7 champions have all been different teams.

The golden age peaked two years ago and is obviously over: there is probably going to be one champ for the next six years, maybe the Spurs can grab one too if Wemby can stay healthy.

After the season ends, the bottom eight teams should play a March Madness style bracket/tournament: “For the Draft.”

The entire spirit of a draft, though, is that older players legitimately age out and need to he replaced by younger ones. Aging teams shouldn’t be punished for being in decline and less competitive. They need the draft.

It’s the gap year teams, and the teams resting otherwise healthy players, and the teams trying to keep their protected picks, and the teams pulling their starters when they get a lead that need to be weeded out and precluded from participating in a lottery.

The “front office culture“ has simply figured out what knickerbloggers have been saying for years. The treadmill of mediocrity is bad to be on: it’s better to be very bad than not very good; better to be terrible than not fantastic. It’s one thing when one person figures it out and does it, but when everybody figures it out and does it, the walla come tumbling down.

My V02 max is basically telling me I’m a dead man walking.

Strat, I’m far from an expert (KfaninCelticLand, weigh in), but consistent exercise can reverse that decline to a good degree. I understand how hard it is to do consistent exercise when you injure yourself doing it, but find something you can do without damage and after some weeks you’ll be able to handle more. Studies on the “Norwegian 4×4” (which I don’t recommend unless you get to a certain baseline of health) show enormous gains in reverting to a “young heart.”

Just seems like everything is sore and stiff all the time until I get moving, and then I feel fine. I’ve been worked up 9 ways till Sunday for this alpha-gal thing, so the good news is that some sneaky stuff that I wouldn’t have info on, e.g. blood cancers, have been ruled out. But at our age, we’ve seen enough people go from perfectly healthy to, well, you know…that it’s important to keep that “every day is a gift” mantra going.

I actually thought that you meant Daniel Jones.

They’ll certainly take away some of the OG cuts. Then we’ll see if Brunson can adjust or whether he goes back to hero ball.

It was Brunson’s picks that got OG open