How To Age Like an Elite Athlete
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
When he's not working on How To! or coaching his daughter's basketball team, our producer Derek John loves to play in pickup games with friends. But a serious on-court injury has kept him on the sidelines for months. Now, as he prepares to return to the sport he loves, Derek is seeking tips on how to prolong his playing days while avoiding another injury. In this episode, author Jeff Bercovici joins Carvell Wallace and Derek to share insights from his book, Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age.
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| 0:30.0 | I mean, I had a moment where I was sitting there on the couch watching, I think it was an Olympic |
| 0:35.2 | soccer and I had an ice pack strapped onto each hip, and I'm sitting |
| 0:40.1 | there watching the British men's team play, and they announced that the captain was 36. |
| 0:46.1 | And I was like, wait a minute, I'm 33. |
| 0:48.1 | How is that guy playing soccer at this level? |
| 0:50.2 | And like, I can't play a 45-minute once-a a week co-ed game without getting hurt. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to how to. I'm Carvo Wallace. You know, it's been rumored that many, many highly paid, |
| 1:07.3 | highly conditioned elite professional athletes listen to our show. And if that's you, |
| 1:12.8 | let me say straight away, we appreciate your listenership and we would love to receive some tickets. |
| 1:18.4 | But right now, I want to put you aside for a second and talk to the recreational athletes. |
| 1:24.3 | You know who you are, the Park League softballers, the pickleball posse, the 5K runners who are |
| 1:30.3 | pretty sure you can do it 10K. If that's you, I want you to listen to me when I say, |
| 1:35.8 | no matter how old you are right now, you're going to keep getting older. And as an athlete's |
| 1:41.6 | body ages, it increasingly does not like surprises. |
| 1:49.0 | Protection breaks down and time runs out. Down goes Rogers in the sack for Leonard Floyd. |
| 1:54.8 | A loss of 10 on the play, and hopefully the Jets are thinking that's the only loss on that play. |
| 2:00.7 | That's the sound of NFL quarterback Aaron Rogers tearing his Achilles tendon in the first game of the 2023 season. |
| 2:09.5 | At 39 years old, Rogers was the league's oldest active player and his season was already over. |
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