Welcome to episode 3 of the Stronger by Science Podcast.

We've gotten a lot of great feedback on the first two episodes, so we are going to start releasing

episodes every single week from now on.

Every other episode is now going to be a question and answer episode in which

we answer questions from listeners and this is the first such Q&A episode.

If you'd like to have your questions answered on a future show, check out the links in the

episode description to submit your questions to us. Thank you for listening and be on the

lookout for new episodes dropping every single Thursday.

What we're going to do is go through some questions that we have collected on social

media.

Please continue to give us questions that you'd like answered on the show.

Anything to add or should we jump right into it?

In the show notes of this episode, I'll link the social media posts where we originally solicited questions.

Because there is absolutely no way we're going to be able to make it through all of the questions that came in this time so

we're gonna kind of keep like a rolling list of questions and try to get to everything

but yeah so we don't want to overlook the to to get to it but we're going to try to keep everything kind of in one spot to make

sure we don't miss anything. All right question number one. What advice do we have for 40 plus year olds working out? You know, people who are

not newbies, but haven't made the progress they would like. Should they simplify and reduce workouts or just continue doing whatever they can recover from?

How do you address aging when it comes to training?

And that's from Doug.

Yeah, so that's a good question. And I would say that the age of the person

we're talking about matters quite a bit here. So when someone says 40 plus, there's a big difference between like 42 and 72. And typically I'm not going to worry too much about aging for men until someone's like

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