If you’re looking for inspiration to stick to your 2024 fitness goals, you might want to turn to Peter Attia. He’s the Canadian-born doctor and health guru du jour who claims to have identified the secrets to longevity in his wildly popular book Outlive.
Back in September, Katie Underwood, Maclean’s managing editor, spoke to Attia for the magazine’s monthly long-form interview. Katie is a brilliant interviewer. She’s sharp but disarming, curious about all the things that you might wonder about too. She asked Attia about his exercise regime and discovered that he’s a bit, well, unusual.
Attia told Katie: “I probably spend 14 hours a week riding my bike, doing strength training, stability training and rucking—that’s walking while carrying heavy weights on my back.” I had never heard of rucking and won’t be taking it up anytime soon. But I enjoyed learning about it, as I enjoy reading so many of the revelations that emerge from Katie’s interviews.
Here, we’ve compiled the best interviews we published at Maclean’s in 2023, along with a few other top 10 lists of stories you might have missed.
—Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief
