Ageless Athlete — Healthy Aging for a Strong, Capable Life

By Kush Khandelwal

Ageless Athlete is a podcast about staying strong and capable for people who refuse to decline quietly.

Conversations with top athletes, scientists, coaches, and think

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Number 1: Exercise First, Sex After — Intimacy, Aging & the Next 40 Years | Joan Price, 82
We spend a lot of time preparing our bodies for the next 30 or 40 years. Strength. Mobility. Sleep. Recovery. Longevity. But almost nobody prepares for how sex, desire, intimacy, and pleasure may change over that same stretch of time. In this conversation, I speak with Joan Price, one of the best-known voices on sex and aging, about what changes, what can actually get better, and what we should understand long before we think we need to. Joan is 82, but much of what she shares may be most useful in your thirties, forties, and fifties. We talk about physical changes, why exercise matters, how desire evolves, why communication becomes more important, and how intimacy can adapt as we age. This is a conversation about the next 40 years of your body — and a part of longevity we rarely prepare for. Note: This episode includes frank discussion of sex, sexual function, grief, and intimacy. Joan’s Books & Resources Joan’s books include Naked at Our Age, Sex After Grief, The Ultimate Guide to Sex After 50, Better Than I Ever Expected, and Ageless Erotica. Learn more about Joan’s books, webinars, newsletter, and other resources at JoanPrice.com. If you’d like to buy one of her books, consider purchasing through her website: joanprice.com/books 💜 Want to stay strong, mobile, and capable for decades? Join the Ageless Athlete newsletter — one useful email a week on how to build and protect strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, and the physical capacity to keep doing what you love as you get older. Join here → https://www.agelessathlete.co/newsletter/ Timeline: Support cellular renewal and mitochondrial function with Mitopure, featuring Urolithin A. Get up to 20% off at timeline.com/AGELESSATHLETE 🚀 Love the show? Here’s how to support it If something you’ve heard here has stayed with you, made you smile, or helped you keep going, I’d be honored if you’d consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete Topics: longevity, fitness over 40, endurance training, aging athletes, recovery, injury prevention Ageless Athlete is a podcast about healthy aging for people who want to stay strong, active and capable for life. Conversations explore strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, VO2 max, muscle and bone health, and what it takes to keep doing the things you love as you get older. Follow Ageless Athlete — How to Stay Strong, Curious & Capable for Life for new episodes each week.
August 26, 202651min
Number 2: You’re Going to Die - Stop Postponing Your Life | Paul Pritchard, 59
Paul Pritchard is one of the most significant figures in British climbing. He became one of Britain’s leading rock climbers and mountaineers, with major first ascents across the UK, Patagonia, Baffin Island, Yosemite, Kyrgyzstan and the Karakoram. His first ascent of the West Face of Mount Asgard in 1994 remains one of his defining achievements. He was also the first author to have won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature twice — for Deep Play, and later, The Totem Pole. In 1998, everything changed. While climbing Tasmania’s Totem Pole, Paul was struck in the head by a falling rock, sustaining a near-fatal brain injury that left him with hemiplegia. He spent the next year in hospital and has described the decades since as his longest project: healing, adapting, and learning to live one moment at a time. And yet today, Paul says he gives thanks to the Totem Pole every morning. This is not simply a comeback story. It’s a conversation about mortality, fear, acceptance, freedom, identity, and what happens when the life you expected disappears. We talk about why losing choices can sometimes make us freer, why fear doesn’t need to disappear before we act, how aging changes the need to prove ourselves, and Paul’s idea of the “dignity of risk.” If none of us knows how much time we have, what are we still postponing? REFERENCES Paul's excellent books:: Deep Play | The Totem Pole | The Longest Climb | The Mountain Path on his website at https://www.paulpritchard.com.au/books Paul's Instagram: @paulpritchard 💜 Want to stay strong, mobile, and capable for decades? Join the Ageless Athlete newsletter — one useful email a week on how to build and protect strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, and the physical capacity to keep doing what you love as you get older. Join here → https://www.agelessathlete.co/newsletter/ Timeline: Support cellular renewal and mitochondrial function with Mitopure, featuring Urolithin A. Get up to 20% off at timeline.com/AGELESSATHLETE 🚀 Love the show? Here’s how to support it If something you’ve heard here has stayed with you, made you smile, or helped you keep going, I’d be honored if you’d consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete Topics: longevity, fitness over 40, endurance training, aging athletes, recovery, injury prevention Ageless Athlete is a podcast about healthy aging for people who want to stay strong, active and capable for life. Conversations explore strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, VO2 max, muscle and bone health, and what it takes to keep doing the things you love as you get older. Follow Ageless Athlete — How to Stay Strong, Curious & Capable for Life for new episodes each week.
September 02, 20261h 3min
Number 3: Training Secrets of the World’s Best Athletes Over 50
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨 What do the world’s best athletes over 50 do differently? After more than 140 conversations with elite climbers, cyclists, surfers, runners, mountaineers, and coaches, I went back through the Ageless Athlete archive looking for the patterns. The sports are different. The principles are surprisingly consistent. In this episode: Why older athletes still need intensity and power Why recovery often has to expand with age How the best athletes reverse-engineer the exact demands of their goals Why strength training matters even if your sport already feels demanding When specialization beats variety Why community may be part of the training plan How great athletes protect continuity instead of chasing one heroic day The goal is not to train like a 25-year-old forever. It is to keep training like an athlete—while adapting the methods. Go deeper: hear the original conversations Power, intensity & continuing to improveJudi Oyama, 65: From Teenage Rebel to World Champion at 65 — How She Keeps WinningLee Sheftel, 77: Not Done Yet — Consistency, Curiosity, and Small WinsNed Overend, 70: How To Train To Win In Your 70s From A World ChampionHard training & recoveryBill Ramsey, 65: He Outperforms Climbers Half His Age — Still Improving at 65Matt Fitzgerald, 50s: Stop Living in the Gray Zone — The 80/20 Rule for Training and LifeJoe Friel, 82: You Start Losing Muscle After 50 — Stop Making These MistakesTraining for the actual demandJoe Barr, 67: Faster In His 60s: The Training That Took Him To A World RecordRob Matheson: When the Consequences Are Final — Climbing a Death Route at 74Mark “Doc” Renneker, 73: Charging In His 70s — Curiosity, Career, and a Life Built Around the OceanNeil Gresham: Lexicon, Boldness, and the Long Game — Training Smarter and Peaking LaterStrength for the long gameSteve Swenson, 73: Stay Strong Into Your 70s — Lessons From Five Decades on the World’s Highest MountainsJamie Whitmore, 50: When a World Champion’s Body Betrayed Her — And What Came NextJuliet Starrett, 50s: Build the Base — Durability, Longevity, and a Body That LastsEric Horst, 62: Peaking In His 60s — Injury, Recovery, and Training for the Long GameFocus & communityGary Linden, 74: He Built Big Wave Surfing — And Still ChargesJim Donini, 82: What It Costs to Live Boldly — Partnerships, Sacrifice, and Risk at 82Bob Babbitt, 73: Racing Strong at 73 — Daily Rituals For Recovery, Energy, and Clarity*Sarah Thomas: What One Impossible Swim Can Teach You About Identity, Grit, and Starting Over(Sarah is less than 50 at the time of the recording but including her as her lessons apply universally) Protecting the long gameHarvey Lewis, 50: How Harvey Lewis Recovers After 5 Days of Nonstop Running — Injury, Sleep, and What Breaks FirstEd Viesturs, 66: The Discipline of Not Dying — This Survival Code Kept Him Alive for 18 Years💜 Want to stay strong, mobile, and capable for decades? Join the Ageless Athlete newsletter — one useful email a week on how to build and protect strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, and the physical capacity to keep doing what you love as you get older. Join here → https://www.agelessathlete.co/newsletter/ Timeline: Support cellular renewal and mitochondrial function with Mitopure, featuring Urolithin A. Get up to 20% off at timeline.com/AGELESSATHLETE 🚀 Love the show? Here’s how to support it If something you’ve heard here has stayed with you, made you smile, or helped you keep going, I’d be honored if you’d consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete Topics: longevity, fitness over 40, endurance training, aging athletes, recovery, injury prevention Ageless Athlete is a podcast about healthy aging for people who want to stay strong, active and capable for life. Conversations explore strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, VO2 max, muscle and bone health, and what it takes to keep doing the things you love as you get older. Follow Ageless Athlete — How to Stay Strong, Curious & Capable for Life for new episodes each week.
August 12, 20261h 2min
Number 4: The Surprising Skill You Need To Live Past 100 - And It's Not Diet or Exercise | Allison Aubrey
Allison Aubrey has spent more than two decades reporting on health and science for NPR. But when she put herself through a longevity assessment, some of the results caught even her off guard. In this episode, we talk about what she learned from that experience, why being active and lean doesn’t necessarily mean you’re as prepared for aging as you think, and the health markers that may actually be worth paying attention to. Then we get into the bigger stuff: strength, purpose, connection, reinvention, and the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. And later, Allison shares what she learned from spending time with 32 centenarians — including one pattern that kept showing up in people who had made it past 100. About Allison: Allison Aubrey is an NPR health and science correspondent and the author of the Book:Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love. She also writes on Substack. Brain Care Score — Mass General 💜 Want to stay strong, mobile, and capable for decades? Join the Ageless Athlete newsletter — one useful email a week on how to build and protect strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, and the physical capacity to keep doing what you love as you get older. Join here → https://www.agelessathlete.co/newsletter/ Timeline: Support cellular renewal and mitochondrial function with Mitopure, featuring Urolithin A. Get up to 20% off at timeline.com/AGELESSATHLETE 🚀 Love the show? Here’s how to support it If something you’ve heard here has stayed with you, made you smile, or helped you keep going, I’d be honored if you’d consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete Topics: longevity, fitness over 40, endurance training, aging athletes, recovery, injury prevention Ageless Athlete is a podcast about healthy aging for people who want to stay strong, active and capable for life. Conversations explore strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, VO2 max, muscle and bone health, and what it takes to keep doing the things you love as you get older. Follow Ageless Athlete — How to Stay Strong, Curious & Capable for Life for new episodes each week.
September 09, 202651min
Number 5: What Actually Improves Metabolism as You Age — Ketones, Fasting, and Fueling for Endurance | Dr. Brianna Stubbs
Ketones and fasting get marketed like shortcuts. This conversation is the opposite: a grounded look at how your body actually produces energy—and what changes as you age. Dr. Brianna Stubbs is a researcher at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and a world-class endurance athlete. We talk about metabolic flexibility (your ability to switch fuels), what ketones can and can’t do, and when fasting helps—or backfires—depending on training load, recovery, and goals. In this episode: What “metabolic flexibility” really means (in plain English) Exogenous vs. endogenous ketones—and why the difference matters Fasting, performance, and muscle: where people get it wrong What endurance athletes can reveal about aging physiology Practical fueling principles that support longevity—not fads The goal isn’t extreme restriction or constant optimization. It’s building a metabolism that stays resilient, adaptable, and recoverable over decades. 💜 Want to stay strong, mobile, and capable for decades? Join the Ageless Athlete newsletter — one useful email a week on how to build and protect strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, and the physical capacity to keep doing what you love as you get older. Join here → https://www.agelessathlete.co/newsletter/ Timeline: Support cellular renewal and mitochondrial function with Mitopure, featuring Urolithin A. Get up to 20% off at timeline.com/AGELESSATHLETE 🚀 Love the show? Here’s how to support it If something you’ve heard here has stayed with you, made you smile, or helped you keep going, I’d be honored if you’d consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete Topics: longevity, fitness over 40, endurance training, aging athletes, recovery, injury prevention Ageless Athlete is a podcast about healthy aging for people who want to stay strong, active and capable for life. Conversations explore strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, VO2 max, muscle and bone health, and what it takes to keep doing the things you love as you get older. Follow Ageless Athlete — How to Stay Strong, Curious & Capable for Life for new episodes each week.
May 15, 20251h 46min