How To!: Age Like an Elite Athlete
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, I had a moment where I was sitting there on the couch watching, I think it was an Olympic soccer. |
| 0:06.2 | And I had an ice pack strapped onto each hip. |
| 0:09.5 | And I'm sitting there watching the British men's team play. |
| 0:13.3 | And they announced that the captain was 36. |
| 0:15.6 | And I was like, wait a minute. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm 33. |
| 0:18.0 | How is that guy playing soccer at this level? |
| 0:20.0 | And like, I can't play a 45 |
| 0:21.7 | minute once a week co-ed game without getting hurt. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to how to. I'm Carvo Wallace. You know, it's been rumored that many, many highly |
| 0:36.7 | paid, highly conditioned elite professional athletes listen to our show. |
| 0:41.6 | And if that's you, let me say straight away, we appreciate your listenership and we would love to receive some tickets. |
| 0:48.4 | But right now, I want to put you aside for a second and talk to the recreational athletes. |
| 0:54.3 | You know who you are, the Park League softballers, the pickleball posse, the 5K runners who are |
| 1:00.3 | really sure you can do a 10K. |
| 1:02.7 | If that's you, I want you to listen to me when I say, no matter how old you are right now, |
| 1:08.3 | you're going to keep getting older. |
| 1:10.5 | And as an athlete's body ages, |
| 1:12.6 | it increasingly does not like surprises. |
| 1:19.1 | Protection breaks down and time runs out. Down goes Rogers in the sack for Leonard Floyd. |
| 1:24.8 | A loss of 10 on the play, and hopefully the Jets are thinking that's the only loss on |
| 1:30.0 | that play. That's the sound of NFL quarterback Aaron Rogers tearing his Achilles tendon in the first |
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