Training the Masters Athelete
There are four key considerations in training the masters athelete:
1) Strength Training assumes a greater role because of it's positive effects on posture and the positive impact on Type II fibers.
2) Flexibility plays a greater role - more mobility work daily. Both active and passive
3) More recovery between hard training sessions
4) Forget the last good workout you did when you were in your twenties. Accept where you are and train accordingly
posted by Vern Gambetta @ 8/16/2005 05:48:00 AM
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Without any real purpose other than knowing that doing only one thing was boring, I have combined endurance and strength training my whole life. Now at 52, I find I've reaped a pretty good result from what was largely an instinctive program. Maybe when you build muscle, which burns fat even at rest, and then require endurance work from the muscle you build, there's a synergistic effect greater than if you only did one or the other. I would like to continue to refine this idea and phase out some old-school stuff I'm still doing in favor of Vern's approach, so I'm very much interested in what's out there that's working for lifelong athletes.
Randy Mulkey
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