Seven Seconds - The Truth About Sprinting

Your body can only sustain a true maximum-power effort for about seven seconds. After that, your maximum power output starts to decline as you exhaust the phosphocreatine system, the fastest energy system in your body. So why do most high-intensity workouts have you doing longer intervals, more re…

The Training You’re Missing That Prevents Age-Related Decline

Quick: What’s the leading cause of injury and death among Americans over age 65? Heart attack? Stroke? It’s actually falling—and specifically, the adverse health consequences that can follow a fall. There are 14 million falls a year among Americans over age 65, including 3 million hospitalization…

Could The Quarter (400-Meter Run) Be The Best Fitness Metric For Longevity?

What if running one lap around the track could reveal more about your longevity potential than any other fitness test? The 400-meter run is known in track and field as the “race of truth,” challenging your fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers, aerobic and anaerobic energy systems, and your a…

Forget Wearables! Follow These Simple, Low-Tech Sleep Secrets

It’s time for some more Bradsplaining! These are short episodes inspired by longer, full-length episodes that I have on the B.rad Podcast, so if you want a little quick hit, maybe it will interest and intrigue you to listen to a longer show on the same subject—that’s the idea.  In this episode, I…

Are You Neglecting The Most Important Workout For Longevity?

Welcome to a new series on the B.rad Podcast called “Bradsplaining,” where I provide tips, insights, and commentary on distinct subjects, giving you shorter episodes with actionable insights and takeaways. The first episode explains why I quit jogging after 40 years—and why you might want to, too…

Why Testosterone Is The Best Blood Marker To Track Overall Health and Longevity Potential

Today, I'm taking you through my latest blood testing with Vitals Vault and sharing the biomarkers I pay the most attention to for health and performance. I explain why I track triglycerides-to-HDL ratio, fasting insulin, vitamin D, and especially testosterone, free testosterone, and SHBG—and why …

Why I Stopped Jogging (And Maybe You Should Too): A Morning Walk With Brad

I made a post the other day stating that people over 50 should be banned from running marathons, and was greatly amused to see all the savage, critical comments coming back at me. Fair points made by those of you who are thriving in the endurance community, but what I am really talking about is th…

5 Shocking Misconceptions About Doping In Olympic and Professional Sports

Almost everything the average sports fan believes about doping is wrong. The “dirty cheaters stealing medals from clean athletes” story almost never describes what actually happened. Instead, we’ve had dirty sports, Cold War dynamics, and athletes faced with the “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” d…

Is Circadian Rhythm The Ultimate Biohack? (Yes: Especially For Post-Menopausal Females!)

Could optimizing your circadian rhythm be the most important health intervention of all? In this show, I take a trip around the 24-hour clock, exploring fascinating ideas about light, leptin, metabolism, sleep, and circadian biology. We’ll look at why direct outdoor light in the morning matters, w…

Surprising Strategies to Help You Fall and Stay Asleep. Hint: They're Not The Usual Stuff | Chu Zhu

I’m so excited to bring you this wonderful interview with Mr. Chu Zhu. He is the founder of a company called Somnus Lab, and they make an amazing mattress cooling sleep system to help you regulate your body temperature during sleep. Chu is a scientifically sophisticated guest who explains some fas…