Ageless Athlete — How to Stay Strong, Curious & Capable for Life

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  Most Older Athletes Push Too Hard — What 2,448 Miles Taught Him | Joe Barr, 66 29.07.2026 1ชม. 32นาที

  At 66, Joe Barr set out to ride the full length of Route 66 and attempt something no one had officially documented before. The ride demanded far more than fitness. It tested sleep, judgment, preparation, teamwork, and Joe’s ability to keep moving when every part of him wanted to stop. Joe has spent a lifetime in cycling. He represented Ireland at two Commonwealth Games, raced professionally, completed Race Across America, and later built a second career in ultra-distance racing after being to...
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  Fitness Isn’t Enough — What an Everest Guide Knows About Staying Ready | Luis Benitez 22.07.2026 1ชม. 14นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 The fittest people do not always reach the summit. Luis Benitez has climbed Everest six times and spent years guiding on the world’s highest mountains. What he learned is that success depends on more than strength. Patience, judgment, adaptability, and the ability to stay steady when the plan falls apart often matter more. But this conversation goes well beyond Everest. Luis speaks with rare clarity abo...
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  Stop Living in the Gray Zone — The 80/20 Rule for Training and Life | Matt Fitzgerald 15.07.2026 1ชม. 16นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Most athletes know how to train hard. Far fewer know how to go truly easy. Matt Fitzgerald is one of the most influential writers and coaches in endurance sports. After developing severe long COVID, Matt lost the ability to run for nearly three years. Then, despite the risks, he committed to running a 100-kilometer ultramarathon through the Arizona desert. For Matt, it was about much more than rea...
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  Melatonin, Naps, and Tracking: What You're Getting Wrong About Sleep | Dr. Martin Kawalski, Stanford Sleep Expert 08.07.2026 1ชม. 19นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Sleep is not just about feeling tired tomorrow. In this episode, Stanford sleep researcher Dr. Martin Kawalski explains why sleep often gets harder after 50, why older adults do not simply “need less sleep,” and why getting the basics wrong for long enough may affect how well we age. One of the biggest ideas from this conversation: sleep regularity may matter more than total hours. Martin explains why c...
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  Stay Strong Into Your 80s — What This Athlete Does Differently | Bob Becker, 82 01.07.2026 1ชม. 16นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Most people don't notice they're declining until it's too late. Bob Becker offers a very different model. He didn't discover running until he was 57. Twenty-five years later, at age 80, he returned to Badwater 135 — a brutal 135-mile ultramarathon across Death Valley in temperatures above 120°F — and became the oldest official finisher in the race's history. This is Bob's second appearance on Ageless At...
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  The Truth About Strength No One Tells You | Ethan Pringle 24.06.2026 1ชม. 27นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Ethan Pringle has climbed some of the hardest routes in the world. But this episode is about the kind of strength climbing does not train you for. After his father suffered a devastating stroke, Ethan found himself living two lives: pro climber on the road, and son/caregiver back home. We talk about grief, fear, failure, aging parents, turning 40, becoming a father, and what strength means when life bre...
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  The Scientist Trying to Stop Aging — What Most People Still Don’t Understand | Dr. Bill Andrews, 74 17.06.2026 1ชม. 13นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Most of us think aging happens slowly in the background. Dr. Bill Andrews thinks we may be aging faster than we need to. Bill is a molecular biologist, founder of Sierra Sciences, and a longtime researcher in telomere and telomerase biology. He has spent most of his life asking whether aging itself can be slowed, reversed, or even cured. He is also an ultra runner. At 74, Bill still runs every day, has ...
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  The Uncomfortable Skill You May Be Avoiding - It May Set You Free | Beth Rodden 10.06.2026 1ชม. 14นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Beth Rodden is one of the most influential climbers of her generation—known for major Yosemite free climbing, multiple free ascents on El Capitan, and routes that helped push standards forward. I came into this conversation expecting more about training, aging, and climbing goals. Instead, Beth took us somewhere rarer: the inner work behind the highlight reel. She speaks with a kind of directness ...
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  Anti Decline Mindset — Playbook to Stay Capable | Mike Wardian, 52 03.06.2026 1ชม. 9นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Some guests make you want to train harder. Mike Wardian makes you want to live wider — and stop postponing the things that matter. Mike is 52, a runner, adventurer, and lifelong “yes” person. What stood out here wasn’t a race résumé. It was how he builds a life where training fits inside the day, curiosity stays lit, and progress keeps happening even when time is tight. Mike’s story has that...
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  Seven Things 70-Year-Old Athletes Understand That Most of Us Learn Too Late 27.05.2026 35นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Two weeks ago, I attended Vitalist Bay in Berkeley, surrounded by scientists, doctors, founders, and researchers exploring the future of longevity. A few days later, I was in the Eastern Sierra, recovering from ankle surgery, mountain biking instead of climbing, soaking in hot springs, and thinking about a different side of healthspan: the lived side. In this solo episode, I share 7 lessons from 70+ ath...
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  You Start Losing Muscle After 50 — Stop Making These Mistakes | Joe Friel, 82 20.05.2026 1ชม. 24นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Joe Friel is 82, still training, and still paying attention. In the last five years, he felt the shift—power fading on climbs, muscle disappearing even with a lifetime of lifting—and he’s not sugarcoating what that feels like. This episode is about the mistakes that quietly accelerate decline after 50: training like your recovery is unchanged, letting ego run the plan, and waiting too long to adju...
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  Fear Is Stealing Your Life | Caroline Paul, 62 13.05.2026 1ชม. 9นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Caroline Paul has spent decades doing things most people stop doing after 50 — flying experimental planes, surfing, skateboarding into Yosemite at 57. Her new book, Why Fly, is built around a question that follows her everywhere: what changes in us when the world suddenly feels bigger than our problems? Astronauts call it the overview effect — that strange shift that happens when you're suddenly confron...
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  The Discipline of Not Dying — This Survival Code Kept Him Alive for 18 Years | Ed Viesturs, 66 06.05.2026 1ชม. 26นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Ed Viesturs was a childhood hero of mine. When I was younger—dreaming about mountains—his story helped shape what I thought “greatness” actually was: more than bravado, but also patience, judgment, and the discipline to come home. In this episode, Ed takes us inside an 18-year mission: climbing all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen—with Annapurna as the final, most dangerou...
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  Still Getting Faster in his 60s — The Marginal Gains System | Greg Benning, 64 29.04.2026 1ชม. 20นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Greg Benning is a masters single sculler outside Boston — and at 64, he’s still finding ways to get faster. I came into this conversation not knowing much about rowing, but that’s exactly what made it powerful: once Greg translates the sport, what emerges is a universal framework for longevity performance. For the last 15 years, Greg’s question has been simple: can marginal gains in efficiency offset ag...
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  She Won the World’s Toughest Races — Then She Rebuilt | Amelia Boone 22.04.2026 1ชม. 22นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 Amelia Boone rose to prominence in the early 2010s as one of obstacle racing’s most dominant competitors — known for thriving in long-format, high-suffering events and earning the “queen of pain” reputation. But this conversation is less about grit-as-identity… and more about what it takes to stay capable for decades. We talk about the hidden cost of over-optimizing, why Amelia stepped away from trackin...
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  Stop Waiting for the "Perfect" Season | Cedar Wright, 51 15.04.2026 1ชม. 29นาที

  Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 What happens when the moment that changes your life doesn’t come from the “dangerous” thing… but from an ordinary day at home? Cedar Wright has spent decades in the vertical world—professional climber, storyteller, and filmmaker whose adventures helped bring climbing culture to a wider audience. But in this conversation, the sharpest lesson isn’t about climbing at all. It’s about how quickly capability ...
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  How to Achieve Hard Goals — Doing What Nobody Had Done Before | Amy Gubser, 56 08.04.2026 1ชม. 30นาที

  Amy Appelhans Gubsers (56) is a nurse at UCSF, a mom and grandma, and the first person to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands—nearly 30 miles and roughly 17 hours in cold Pacific water, in what many consider shark territory. This is more than an epic swim. It’s a practical conversation about how big goals actually get done: patience over years, calm under pressure, and the ability to keep moving when conditions stop cooperating. In this episode: The long-game ...
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  Don’t Try to “Fix” Your Shoulder Pain — Do This Instead | Dr Tyler Nelson 01.04.2026 1ชม. 4นาที

  Overhead motion is everywhere — in sport and in life. This episode is a practical deep dive on shoulder pain with Dr. Tyler Nelson, who works primarily with climbers but applies the same principles across overhead athletes and active adults: build tolerance with smart progressions, manage volume, and avoid getting trapped chasing “perfect fixes.” What to expect This is more technical than a typical Ageless Athlete episode — but it stays grounded. You’ll get: a clearer way to think about...
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  Your Training Has to Adapt as You Age — Or You’ll Stall | Susan Hunt, 68 25.03.2026 1ชม. 8นาที

  What if staying athletic for life isn’t about doing one thing really well — but learning how to start over, again and again? Susan Hunt has spent the last four decades doing exactly that. She describes herself as “very average” — yet she’s completed Ironman triathlons, raced the Eco-Challenge in Borneo, run the Marathon des Sables across the Sahara, and summited Mount Everest at 53. Now at 68, she’s still competing — recently winning her age group at a Half Ironman and qualifying for the Worl...
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  3 Things You Must Do Differently After 40 to Stay Strong and Agile | Jason Hardrath 18.03.2026 1ชม. 26นาที

  What does it take to stay capable through the years? Jason Hardrath is one of the most creative endurance athletes in the mountains today. An ultrarunner, climber, and mountain linkup specialist, Jason is known for massive single-push adventures that combine running, climbing, swimming, biking, and even paragliding. He has completed the Bulger List — the 100 highest peaks in Washington — in record time, along with numerous Fastest Known Times (FKTs) and ambitious multi-sport mountain projects...