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Staying In Shape At 50 And Beyond

Keep It Simple And Focus On Four Areas Staying in shape at 50 and beyond. I’m a 67-year-old weekend warrior athlete who spends time in the gym and working on my cardio through running. I’m in the top 15% of my age group in crucial …

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Do The Work

One Last Blog On Resilience Do the work. That’s been the core mantra for me over the last couple of years. I am going to move my writing on after this post, into a broader look at physical and mental wellness, particularly in the context …

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Consistency, Resilience, Results

Positive Mindset My positive mindset powered me to deadlift my body weight for three sets of eight yesterday. So what? It was a significant milestone for me only four months after a serious cycling accident. I was knocked unconscious, and while there was no lasting …

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Keep Grinding – Rebuilding

Grinding For Life I use keep grinding as a hashtag in my Instagram exercise photos and videos. I’m deep into my sixties and when I refer to keeping grinding, I’m not referring to the sound of my knees. I am highlighting an essential truth of …

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Double Down On Protein

I’ve blogged about this subject before, but after some productive focus on this area, I wanted to remind readers that this is an easy and highly effective practice to introduce into your wellness regime. Double down on protein. From the age of around 40 muscle …

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Seven Times Fall, Eight Times Rise

Nanakorobi Yaoki Seven times fall, eight times rise. I live by it, even now. If I had stayed down every time I had a setback, it would have been a bleak life. I’ve always found a way to rise again. Some would call it stubbornness, …

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If You Don’t Measure It

You Can’t Improve It If you don’t measure it, you can’t improve it. The diagram on the left illustrates my Training Peaks fitness trend over the last year. A year ago, I was ramping up my fitness for the annual Girona cycling pilgrimage, which was …

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No F@£$%^g Way

No f@£$%^g way am I doing that. Well, guess what, I am. I got the news last Friday that an entry into the 2024 New York Marathon was mine. Thank you to Dan and Sam at Science in Sport. Logically, there is no way I …

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Faster. Stronger. Longer. Longer.

Faster, stronger, longer for longer. I rebranded my website to focus more clearly on having a longer and healthier life. If you are 50 years old or older, then there is something of interest to you in my blog. Physical exercise, being mindful of mental …

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Reading List

Getting the reading list underway, here is a surprisingly good book by The Terminator himself, Arnold. His book Seven Tools For Life is a great read. Simple and easy-to-grasp concepts for improving your life. I haven’t been much of an Arnold fan, but I watched …

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