Mid Life Athlete

In this episode, Jason and Greg tackle the basic tenants of the bodies energy systems.

Show notes
The energy systems represent the body’s ability to convert chemical energy stored in food into mechanical work. There are three main energy systems that the human body uses during exercise. The phosphagen system is the primary energy system used during short-term, high-intensity exercises such as sprinting or weightlifting. Glycolytic system uses lactate from the muscles and glucose from the blood and stored glycogen to provide energy to the muscles. The oxidative system is slower than the phosphagen and glycolytics systems, but can sustain energy production for a longer period of time. The primary players involved in maintaining blood glucose homeostasis are insulin and glucagon. Insulin is a hormone that is produced in the pancreas. When blood glucose levels get too high, insulin acts to reduce the concentration of blood glucose. Glucagon, a hormone also produced by the liver, converts glycogen in the liver to glucose, which is then released into the bloodstream.

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Before we delve into one of the main parts of the Mid Life Athlete framework - exercise - we thought we’d tackle some foundational topics, starting with muscles and how they work. 

In this episode we cover:

• Three types of muscle
• Switching on the muscle
• Activation
• Recruitment patterns
• Levers
• Biomechanical factors & force
• Basic types of action

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After 2 years of interviewing mid life athletes and experts, we've learnt a heap of things and are taking a slight change in direction.

During our Summer break we started drawing on that knowledge to work on a framework for mid life athletes. After a few tweaks we are ready to share our work with listeners.  This prompted us to think about changing the podcast slightly, to move away from interviews and focus more on delving into the details behind the framework.  We'll still interview people but it will be mainly in support of a topic in the framework.

Listener feedback has always been asking us about the how: how do I implement what you're talking about. That's what the next phase of the podcast will be mainly about.

To view the framework visit: https://midlifeathlete.substack.com/

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We've mentioned many times on this podcast the benefits of exercise on health. With significant behaviour change could we rethink healthcare as more of a prevention as a service rather than sickcare which is what we've got today. Dr Ramin Rafei thinks we can. 

Jason and Greg chat to Ramin about how he came to rethink healthcare and what his interesting approach is via his start-up Unleash. Ramin is a passionate supporter of changing our view on healthcare and he has some ambitious goals. 

For some accompanying reading:

• Latest blog from Unleash: https://unleash.health/unleash-blog/this-is-the-story-of-unleash
• Medium article by Ramin Rafei: https://medium.com/@drrafiei/prevention-as-a-service-a-business-model-that-will-fix-healthcare-166dad254ce5

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Jason and Greg chat to JC Cangilla, a listener & mid life athlete who reached out with some questions following us publishing a newsletter on a draft mid life athlete framework: https://open.substack.com/pub/midlifeathlete/p/mid-life-athlete-framework?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

JC's original questions were how do you balance short term vs long term  goals coupled with balancing stuff you should do but within life's constraints. 

We were convinced that many of you would have similar questions so we got JC on the show to discuss in more depth.

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Greg and Jason chat to Stefan van der Fluit, Founder and CEO of FlowBio and 2018 Netherlands age group ironman champion. Who would have thought of our sweat as data. Well that’s exactly what FlowBio does. Through its innovative Flowpatch it measures our sweet in real time enabling athletes to understand their hydration and sodium levels. It’s a breakthrough piece of tech that is currently being beta tested with a few pro athletes, including the Brownlee brothers. What they have learnt so far about hydration and sodium is fascinating.

Check out https://www.flowbio.com/

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Mildly enraged by a few articles that came across Greg's screen this week, we unpick the central messages behind these articles and call out what we think are alternative truths.  Extending these themes we talk about Stephen Seiler's recent interview with Kilian Jornet, which you can find on our substack:

 https://midlifeathlete.substack.com/p/training-lessons-from-the-lover-of?r=rxa77&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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We're back for Season 3! To kick off, Jason and Greg catch up on their summer exercise;, chat about v1 of the Mid Life Athlete framework revealed via our Substack site and how important it is to focus on form when starting back to training and exercise. A new season kick off wouldn't be complete without looking forward to some future guests and topics.

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This episode provides a possible glimpse into our future. We chat to Jo Schoonbroodt or ‘Jogger Jo’ as he is colloquially known, who at 71 just ran a 2 hr 54 min 19 sec marathon to become the world record holder for the 70-74 age group. An astonishing feat that many of us mid life athletes would be proud of! Jo has a great approach and philosophy to running that we can all take on board. As you’d expect we asked for some tips for us mere whipper snappers.

If you want to follow Jo, he’s on Twitter, Instagram & Strava.

www.facebook.com/JoggerJo
www.instagram.com/jo.schoonbroodt
http://twitter.com/JoggerJo
https://www.strava.com/athletes/2959267
 

His website is: www.jogger.tk

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Like it or loathe it, we all need sleep. Pretty much every animal sleeps and given the risks associated with being unconscious for periods of time then it must be pretty important. In this episode we delve much deeper into sleep, with 2 experts: Dr Jonathan Charest is the Director of Athlete Sleep Services at the Centre for Sleep & Human Performance in Calgary and Jesse Cook, a Clinical Psych PhD Student & sleep researcher who has particular interest in advancing clinical care of hypersomnia & wearable sleep tech.

In the episode, Jonathan talks about blue blocking glasses which you can see more of here: 
https://youtu.be/wiTSFLRHJRI

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