Run Training Plans For Over 50 Year Olds

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What are the main considerations for someone who is over 50 when starting a run training plan? On this week's podcast, Taren and Jamie discuss everything there is to know about running over 50, including:

How does a run training plan for someone who is over 50 differ from a training plan for a younger person?
Should injury prevention be a bigger consideration if you are over 50?
What happens to the body as it gets older as it relates to the gains in aerobic capacity and speed? Is there a limit or is capacity reduced?
Is it possible to achieve fitness levels that you may have seen in your younger years, achieve the same times and maybe even beat them?
Will it take longer for someone who is over 50 to build to running certain distances than a younger person?
How much should strength training be a part of a run training plan for someone who is over 50?
What else can over 50s to do prevent injuries in their training eg taking supplements?
Should run training plans integrate more cross training/non weight baring/non impact aerobic training eg swimming or cycling to reduce risk of injury?

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0:00.0	What's up Motivators, Taryn here. Today's podcast guest is again me with the host and question
0:07.6	asker, Jamie Delamore, who is a new team member with us here at Motiv. Today we're getting into
0:14.2	how to run when you are over the age of 50. We've had a number of questions about this recently, where people
0:22.4	who are approaching 50 or older than 50 or even 60 say, well, does the motive training app
0:29.4	and the training plans that we have in the motive training app reflect the fact that we are older
0:34.6	athletes? And I had to think about it for a little while because as I was going
0:40.0	back and creating the training plans in the Motive app, I was thinking about it in terms of how do we
0:46.2	allow people to continue to get faster as they age? And I think the aging process where we start
0:52.4	losing muscle mass and starting to get a little bit
0:54.9	slower and the effects of sitting at a desk, they really start to creep in when we're as
1:00.2	young as our late 20s and early 30s.
1:02.7	And I created the methods that we use in the motive app, be it in our triathlon plans, our
1:08.6	run training plans, our cycling plans, our duathlon plans,
1:12.5	our swim run plans, all with that idea of we need to create plans that allow ordinary people who
1:18.5	have the challenges of ordinary people be extraordinary and overcome all of those common challenges,
1:25.5	be it some of our physical limitations that start to creep in as we get
1:28.9	older. So the methods that we use for a 60-year-old, a 50-year-old tend to be the same as the methods
1:35.8	that we use for a 30-year-old because the goal is the same. It's to get faster as we are getting
1:42.2	older and encountering more of those physical limitations.
1:46.2	Now, we are going to discuss specifically how you adapt to it as you're an older athlete,
1:52.0	but we're going to talk largely about the premise of how do we get faster as we get older?
1:58.5	What are the aspects that a training plan needs to have to overcome those limitations?
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