How To Age Like an Elite Athlete

How To!

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Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 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. If you liked this episode, check out: How To Trick Your Brain Into Running Longer. Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To’s executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer and our producer is Rosemary Belson. This episode was produced by Kevin Bendis. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.6	slash enhance. I mean I had a moment where I was sitting there on the couch watching I think it was an Olympic soccer and I had an ice pack strapped onto each hip and I'm sitting there watching the British men's team play and they announced that the captain was 36 and I was like
0:46.5	wait a minute I'm 33 how is that guy playing soccer at this level and like I can't play a
0:51.2	45 minute once a week co-ed game without getting hurt.
0:57.0	Welcome to how to I'm Carvo Wallace. You know it's been rumored that many many
1:06.2	highly paid highly conditioned elite professional athletes listen to our show and if
1:12.1	that's you let me say straight away we appreciate your
1:15.4	listenership and we would love to receive some tickets but right now I want to
1:20.3	put you aside for a second and talk to the recreational athletes. You know who you are, the
1:25.7	Park League softballers, the pickleballed posse, the 5K runners who are pretty sure you can do
1:31.7	it 10k.
1:33.0	If that's you, I want you to listen to me when I say,
1:36.0	no matter how old you are right now,
1:39.0	you're going to keep getting older.
1:40.0	And as an athlete's body ages, it increasingly does not like surprises.
1:49.0	Protection breaks down and time runs out.
1:52.0	Down goes Rogers and the sack for Leonard Floyd.
1:55.0	A loss of 10 on the play and hopefully
1:58.0	the jets are thinking that's the only loss on that play.
2:00.9	That's the sound of NFL quarterback Aaron Rogers tearing his Achilles
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