Want to Stay Strong as You Age? Add Speed to What You Already Do

Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman

Nutritious Movement

Flexibility, Active, Aging, Mobility, Muscles, Health & Fitness, Mobile, Exercise, Community, Movement, Alternative Health, Fitness, Joints, Menopause

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As we age, maintaining muscle power—not just strength—is key to staying independent, quick, and injury-free. In this episode, Katy and Jeannette explain the difference between strength and power, and why adding speed or intensity to the movements you're already doing—like walking, climbing stairs, or getting up from a chair—can make all the difference. From stair climbing to pickleball to plyometrics, learn practical ways to build power and maintain independence for years to come.

They share practical ways to train power with (or without) an overhaul to your routine, and Katy chats with masters athlete and Peluva co-founder Brad Kearns about maintaining explosive strength after 60. Hear how Brad shifted from endurance to high jump, why minimalist shoes can support aging feet, and how smarter movement helps you age better.

Enhanced Show Notes & Full Transcript

CHAPTERS

00:02:15 - Power - the definitions

00:06:10 - The Dynamic Collective

00:12:05 - Why Power is Important as You Get Older

00:21:15 - Listener Question about Plyometrics brought to you by Smart Playrooms

00:31:30 - Interview with power athlete Brad Kearns of Peluva Footwear

BOOKS & RESEARCH MENTIONED

My Perfect Movement Plan by Katy Bowman
Whole Body Barefoot by Katy Bowman
ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal Special Edition on Power

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0:00.0	This is the Move Your DNA podcast, a show where movement science meets your everyday life.
0:09.1	I'm Katie Bowman, biomechanist, author, and my favorite power exercise is running upstairs.
0:16.4	And I'm Jeanette Lorum, biologist, movement teacher, and recently I have been powering through sets of fast press-ups.
0:24.6	Everybody is welcome here. Let's get started.
0:29.4	I have a question for you. You just said press up. What do you mean press up? Like overhead press?
0:34.7	No, no. On the ground, you know, regular press- up. Push-up. Would you call it a push-up?
0:39.1	We would call it a push-up. Yes. Again, we are both speaking English and I do not know what you're saying.
0:43.3	Push-up. A push-up. On your knees, full-body push-up? On an incline, no. I'm not quite doing many sets of.
0:51.7	So a little incline on my hands up a bit higher.
0:55.1	And I like them.
0:56.7	They're easier than going slow.
1:00.2	You know, what we actually covered this in a podcast before about, you know, do you run quickly uphill?
1:09.4	Or do you take the slower roundabout way and yes there is
1:14.7	there's an ease it's it's difficult to recognize because like on mass like on paper you're working
1:21.9	harder right but it's the same thing in the boat i just came in from rowing as you can tell by my
1:27.3	yeah i think it looks great you can tell you've come in from doing something outside on the water, complete with bubble hat. Yeah, yeah, look at it. Like it's just a bit grungy. And how do you do power sets in a boat?
1:42.5	You pull harder. You just pull harder.
1:44.4	You just faster for a short, like a fart leg, like short sections and they
1:49.6	yes.
1:50.4	We call them pyramids.
1:52.0	Right.
1:52.8	Because they're not as easily adjustable.
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