What's stopping us from exercising in older age?
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Exercise in older age is high on the agenda, but the idea that with age comes bags of time and a desire to ‘get out there’ isn’t true for a lot of us. How do you juggle exercise around caring for partners, grandchildren or staying in work? What if you haven’t exercised for years? What can your body take, and how has it changed with age? James Gallagher hears how octogenarian athlete ‘Irongran’ keeps going, he explores the mental and physical barriers that stop us exercising, and he finds out what he might feel like in 40 years as he pulls on an ageing suit.
Presenter: James Gallagher
Guests: Edwina Brocklesby, athete and founder of SilverFit Dr Dan Gordon, Associate Professor in Cardiorespiratory Exercise Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University Dr Katrina McDonald, judo specialist and Senior Lecturer in Sports and Exercise Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University Dr Josephine Perry, sports psychologist and founder of Performance in Mind Professor Cassandra Phoenix, Department of Sports and Exercise Sciences at the University of Durham Dr Dharani Yerrakalva, GP and NIHR Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge
Producer: Tom Bonnett
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| 0:39.8 | Hello there and welcome to the Inside Health podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm James Gallagher. |
| 0:44.0 | Now, you know how we always talk about? |
| 0:45.8 | There are two inevitabilities in life, death and taxes. |
| 0:48.8 | Well, what about another one, ageing? |
| 0:51.2 | And that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:53.5 | So later, I'm going to go to a lab and |
| 0:55.5 | they're going to gear me up, give me a suit that makes me feel like I'm 70, so I'm going to know |
| 1:00.0 | what future James is going to feel like. But first, I've come to Hyde Park and I want you to |
| 1:04.6 | meet someone who's actually quite incredible and she's called Iron Grand because she does |
| 1:10.2 | Iron Man Triathlons, didn't start |
| 1:12.8 | exercise until her 50s and is running marathons into her 80s. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm James. Nice to meet you. How many marathons are we up to? You've done London Marathon. |
| 1:25.3 | Yes, I'd have to add my Iron Man which is sort of seven or eight to about |
| 1:29.2 | 10 marathons I think probably |
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