How To Get Fitter, Stronger, and Run Your Best Past Age 40
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What if you could actually run your best past age 40? And get fitter and stronger?
We've put together some of the best interviews we've conducted over the past 10 years from masters coaches, researchers and record holders to help you better understand how to adapt your training as you age.
We'll go over the mental obstacles we face as masters runners, from perhaps not being able to reach our previous best times to wondering what's our potential and overcoming the fear of injury.
You'll also get specific workouts, training schedules, and strength schedules from some of the fastest and most accomplished masters runners in the world.
So, if you're ready to learn how to make the most of your running as you age, today's interview round-up is just what you need!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello fellow runners. I'm your host Finn Melanson, and this is the Run to the Top Podcast, |
| 0:15.0 | the podcast dedicated to making you a better runner |
| 0:18.0 | with each and every episode. |
| 0:20.0 | We are created and produced by the expert team of coaches at runnersconnect.net |
| 0:24.7 | where you can find the best running information on the internet, |
| 0:28.0 | as well as training plans to fit every runner and every budget. What if you could actually run your best past age 40 and get fitter and stronger? |
| 0:47.0 | Now we are not here selling the latest product promising the fountain of youth. |
| 0:53.0 | If you started running in your teens or in your 20s, |
| 0:56.1 | you are not going to be able to race or train at the same intensity |
| 0:59.7 | or pace as you did back then. |
| 1:01.9 | Just because your times aren't going to be the same |
| 1:04.0 | doesn't mean that you can't run your very best and have the same sense of |
| 1:07.7 | pride and accomplishment as you did when you were younger. In fact, you might even find more satisfaction in your running as a master and some |
| 1:16.3 | runners can run their best past age 40 and that's what we're here to learn |
| 1:20.2 | today we've put together some of the best interviews we've conducted over the past |
| 1:24.1 | ten years from Masters coaches, researchers, and record holders to help you better understand |
| 1:29.8 | how to adapt your training as you age. We'll go over the mental obstacles we face as |
| 1:34.6 | Masters runners from perhaps not being able to reach our previous best times to |
| 1:39.0 | wondering what's our potential in overcoming the fear of injury? |
| 1:42.6 | Of course, we're also going to get specific workouts, training schedules, strength schedules, |
| 1:47.7 | and more from some of the fastest and most accomplished masters runners in the world. |
| 1:52.3 | And the best part is, in this podcast, |
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