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: 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 Marek Health: Get a deeper look at your health with comprehensive bloodwork and personalized guidance. Ageless Athlete listeners get 10% off with code AGELESS at https://agelessathlete.short.gy/marek 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, please consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete 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 2: 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 Marek Health: Get a deeper look at your health with comprehensive bloodwork and personalized guidance. Ageless Athlete listeners get 10% off with code AGELESS at https://agelessathlete.short.gy/marek 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, please consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete 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 3: 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 Marek Health: Get a deeper look at your health with comprehensive bloodwork and personalized guidance. Ageless Athlete listeners get 10% off with code AGELESS at https://agelessathlete.short.gy/marek 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, please consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete 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 4: Still Racing In her 80s — How to Train, Recover, and Stay Strong for Decades | Cherie Gruenfeld, 82
At 82, Cherie Gruenfeld is still racing IRONMAN. She’s a 14-time world champion and is considered a GOAT of the sport. Wildly, she didn’t even start running until 42 or triathlon until 48. Her lesson after four decades of training: if you want to preserve strength, power, and muscle as you age, you can’t keep training the way you did when you were younger. We talk about what Cherie does differently now and, the mindset behind performing into your 80s More about Cherie: https://cheriegruenfeld.com/. She also founded Exceeding Expectations, which uses triathlon, mentoring, and education to help at-risk kids build a different future. You can support their excellent work and donate here: Exceeding Expectations *************** Train Smarter, Age Stronger with Matt Fitzgerald. Live Sep 23, 5 pm PST. FREE. Signup: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/347022 *************** Marek Health: Get a deeper look at your health with comprehensive bloodwork and personalized guidance. Ageless Athlete listeners get 10% off with code AGELESS at https://agelessathlete.short.gy/marek 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, please consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete 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 16, 20261h 18min
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. Marek Health: Get a deeper look at your health with comprehensive bloodwork and personalized guidance. Ageless Athlete listeners get 10% off with code AGELESS at https://agelessathlete.short.gy/marek 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, please consider supporting the show. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/agelessathlete 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