The Colosseum | Health & Performance

This week on The Colosseum, we cover the biggest stories in health, fitness, wellness, and human performance. Records are falling across running all at once — and that's almost never an accident. At the Western States 100, France's Vincent Bouillard smashed a course record that had stood since 2019, running 13:46:15 as the entire men's podium ducked under the old mark; on the women's side, Jenn Li...

This week on The Colosseum, we cover the biggest stories in health, fitness, wellness, and human performance. Your wearable is becoming a medical device. WHOOP just partnered with HealthEx to pull your actual electronic health records into the app — so diagnoses, medications, and procedures sit alongside your recovery, strain, and sleep, powered by WHOOP AI and "My Memory." Oura is heading the sam...

This week on The Colosseum, we cover the biggest stories in health, fitness, wellness, and human performance. UFC Freedom 250 takes over the South Lawn of the White House — and on a card where all seven fights ended inside the distance, Justin Gaethje stopped previously-unbeaten Ilia Topuria to claim the undisputed lightweight title. Dr. Sarah Ruggins pulls off one of the most staggering rides in...

This week on The Colosseum, we cover the biggest stories in health, fitness, wellness, and human performance. 20-year-old Auburn hurdler Ja'Kobe Tharp ran a 12.75 to break the 110-meter hurdles world record at the NCAA Championships — the first world record set at that meet in 50 years, and he says he had more in the tank. We dig into the Surgeon General's new advisory reframing kids' screen time...

This week on The Colosseum, we cover the biggest stories in health, fitness, wellness, and human performance. Seven weeks in, and the theme is human limits — on the mountain, on the treadmill, on the gravel, and inside your own head. American ultrarunner Tyler Andrews summits Everest in nine hours, fifty-five minutes, an oxygen-assisted base-camp-to-summit speed record that erases Lhakpa Gelu Sher...

This week on The Colosseum, we cover the biggest stories in health, fitness, wellness, and human performance. Six weeks in, and the wearable arms race is the story. We break down Oura's Ring 5 — 40% smaller, with AI health guidance, GLP-1 tracking, and a new health radar watching nighttime blood pressure and breathing trends — landing alongside a confidential IPO filing at a roughly $11 billion va...

The "150 minutes a week" rule might be a floor, not a finish line. This week is all about how much, when, and where you should actually be training. The Headlines: 560–610 minutes a week for your heart — A British Journal of Sports Medicine study (17,000+ adults, ~8 years) found the standard 150 min/week cut cardiovascular risk just 8–9%, while real protection (30%+) took 3–4x that. Is the old gui...

This week in The Colosseum... Arda Saatçi's 604-kilometer Red Bull Cyborg Season Ultra 600 from Death Valley to Santa Monica Pier — 372 miles, 123 hours, over a million live viewers, and a message that your limits are further away than you think. He didn't hit the 96-hour target, but the story of why that didn't matter is the headline. A 47-year Karolinska Institute longitudinal study tracking the...

Welcome The Colosseum the hub of health wellness, and performance. In Episode 3, we cover Fergus Crawley’s Project TENacity, where he is taking on 10 Ironman-distance triathlons in 10 days across 10 cities to raise money for mental health through CALM. We also break down the latest from Cocodona 250, including Rachel Entrekin’s overall win, Courtney Dauwalter’s rebound, Killian Jornet’s men’s cour...

This week on The Colosseum... The main deep dive is David Sinclair and Life Biosciences' partial epigenetic reprogramming therapy, which the FDA cleared for the first in human trials in January 2026 starting with the eyes. We explain what partial reprogramming actually is, why the Yamanaka factors matter, why the eye is the place to start for this kind of work, and what the real risks and limitati...

This week on The Colosseum , we cover the biggest stories in health, fitness, wellness, and endurance performance. The main deep dive is the FDA’s upcoming review of several popular peptides and what that could mean for compounding pharmacies, wellness clinics, and the future of regulated access. We explain what peptides are, why compounds like BPC-157, TB-500, MOTS-C, Semax, KPV, and Epitalon hav...

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