Endurance Unlimited Season 3, Ep. 15 Maintaining Fitness After 50 (And Beyond!) with Joe Friel
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Aug 2, 2021 AI Snips
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Three Core Drivers Of Age Decline
- Three physiological shifts drive age-related decline: slower recovery, reduced VO2max, and muscle loss with increased body fat.
- These interacting changes often compound because injuries and reduced training accelerate decline.
Keep High-Intensity Work In Your Plan
- Preserve VO2max by keeping high-intensity interval sessions in your program, even as you age.
- Athletes still racing and doing intervals lost VO2max at about 0.5% per year versus much more if they quit high intensity.
Apply 80/20 By Sessions, Not Minutes
- Use an 80/20 workout split by counting whole sessions: 80% easy sessions, 20% hard sessions.
- Treat any workout with intervals as a single high-intensity session regardless of warm-up or cool-down length.