Peak Performance & Athletic Longevity
The strategy & tactics of superior performance as we age.
Join us as we unravel the puzzle of athletic performance longevity.
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We hope you’ll join us on our exploration of how to build and maintain superior athletic performance as we age.
#184 | Aging Athlete Heart Health | Guido Claessen PhD
Sports cardiologist Guido Claessen — principal investigator on the Pro@Heart and Master@Heart studies out of KU Leuven and Hasselt — joins Joe to untangle one of the most uncomfortable questions in masters endurance sport: can you exercise too much for your heart?
#183 | VO2Max or What? | Mike T Nelson, PhD
There's a fight on the internet about VO2Max. One camp treats it as the single number that rules your healthspan — get it as high as humanly possible, no matter the cost. Another camp says it's overhyped, mismeasured, and not worth your attention at...
#182 | Leveraging Energy Stress | Jose Areta, PhD
Most of us treat an energy deficit as a problem to be corrected — a state where you've fallen below a known requirement, risking lost muscle and blunted performance. Areta's reframe: think of it as energy stress. Like exercise stress, it's a signal the...
#181 | No Time for Pain | Rick Olderman MSPT
This episode focuses on addressing chronic pain in older athletes using a comprehensive "systems thinking" approach to physical therapy. Rather than treating pain as an isolated symptom with a checklist of generic exercises, the discussion highlights the importance of diagnosing the underlying root causes...
#180 | The Art of Avoiding Injury | Jeremy Bettle, PhD
The skill of training hard while avoiding injury Bruce Lee once said: "Patience is not passive — it is concentrated strength." For most of his athletic career, Joe had no idea what that meant. Now he does. The older athlete's greatest asset isn't strength or fitness. It's consistency....
#179 | TRT: Less is More | Nayan Patel PharmD
Hormone health influences everything from energy and sleep to mood, metabolism, and libido—yet mainstream treatments are often driven by generic protocols and limited lab interpretations. To truly reclaim your youthful edge, you must recognize that TRT is the "finishing touch" rather than the foundation,...
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