Mid Life Athlete

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. The Midlife Athlete podcasts are fr...

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...

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...

It's not often you get to interview a word record holder but Jason & Greg had the pleasure of chatting to Nima Javaheri, who set a new cycling Everesting world record in March 2022, raising money for blood cancer. Nima's no stranger to incredible feats of endurance having previously competed and won the https://backyardultra.com/races/witiker-backyard-ultra/ . All of this whilst hold...

Is stand up paddle boarding (SUP) the new mid life athlete sport? Jason and Greg find out more chatting to mid life athlete, Simon Hutchinson.  Simon played rugby for best part of 35 years and when hanging up his boots turned to endurance cycling and distance running. He got into SUP for the first time in 2012 and hasn't looked back since.  SUP seems everywhere now, but contrary to perception...

Jason and Greg chat about previous guests, the lost art of patience, future challenges and Greg's health assessment for life insurance. Drop us an email at midlifeathletepodcast@gmail.com You can find Midlife Athlete on Twitter @PodMid Instagram @mid_life_athlete   The Midlife Athlete podcasts are free and we hope our fans enjoy them. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and automaticall...

Once in a while we get a guest who demands listening to. Kevin Weber is one of those guests. An extraordinary and inspiring story of how one man's refusal to give up on life after being given a diagnosis of terminal cancer has led him to run ultras all around the world and more importantly prolong his life. There are so many lessons in this episode that should make us all reflect on how we li...

What happens to our joints as we age and what impact does exercise have? Greg and Jason find out more by chatting to Dr Eva Carneiro, a specialist in sports and exercise medicine. Dr Carneiro has previously worked with elite footballers and athletes but via her clinic now sees what she calls the ageing athlete; basically people like us. Dr Carneiro has a specialist interest and focus in cartilage,...

Jason chats to ultrarunner, Debbie Martin-Consani. Debbie was the first female finisher in this years Montane Spine Race, regarded as one of the worlds toughest endurance races. The spine race involves running 268 miles along the Pennine Way, with over 11,000m of climbing. Debbie finished after 104 hours of running or in her words, "forward propulsion". We chat about how Debbie got into...

Greg and Jason, chat to journalist and author, David Robson. David is an award-winning science writer specialising in the extremes of the human brain, body and behaviour, who has written for The Guardian, BBC Futures,  New Scientist and the Atlantic amongst others. David has recently been researching something known as the 'expectation effect' and his research has culminated in his book...

Greg and Jason chat to Dr Juliet McGrattan about her personal journey as a runner but also her incredible story of how she went from a running mum and practising GP to author, speaker, podcaster, and coach.  A passionate advocate for exercise as means to maintain our health and wellbeing, Juliet has just published her second book, Run Well.  Juliet was also kind enough to answer some running quest...

Greg and Jason explore brain health - how you can sharpen your mind but also reduce the risk of dementia in later life. We chat to Dr Kailas Roberts who is a consultant psychiatrist and psychogeriatrician with over ten years’ experience in the field of old-age psychiatry. He's a doctor with a specialist interest in brain health and dementia. He runs a busy private practice caring for people w...

Greg and Jason chat to Wayne Grimditch and Dan Hutchison. Wayne was a world record waterskier earlier in his career and since retiring established a fitness company that works with a lot of mid life athletes. Dan is an exercise physiologist at the University of Colorado teaching undergraduate students. Dan and Wayne teamed up some time ago to figure out the best protocols for training for mid life...

Greg and Jason recap on the last 12 months, picking out some of their favourite episodes and reflecting on what they have learnt from the variety of guests on the show. We share some of our new years resolutions and our thoughts around a mid life athlete blueprint. We'd love to hear from listeners on the concept of a blueprint for mid life athletes plus any adventures you have lined up for 20...

Greg and Jason chat to midlife athlete, Jo Moseley, who in the Summer of 2019 became the first woman to stand up paddleboard, coast-to-coast, across Northern England. Jo has an amazing story of how she went from a single mum of 2 boys & non-exerciser to a world of adventure and challenges.  Now Jo hopes to inspire others to take joy in any form of exercise. The film of her paddleboard challeng...

As Greg says at the start of this episode, we never thought  we'd be chatting to a philosopher on Mid Life Athlete, but here we are chatting to Josh Habgood-Coote, who is a research fellow at the Grounds Project at Leeds University School of Philosophy. Josh wrote an article for Aeon magazine on how Gilbert Ryle's philosophy of mind could help athletes coach themselves to improve by thin...

Keen to tie up some loose ends from previous episodes, Greg and Jason chat to Dr Daman Langguth, a leading Clinical Immunologist based in Brisbane, Australia. We delve into a heap of questions. Does the immune system decline with age? What impact does exercise have on the immune system? What can we do to boost our immune system? What impact does the menopause have? We think you'll be surprise...

A truly inspiring episode. Jason and Greg chat to adventurer Ian Holdcroft. After a negative experience, Ian decided to embark on the adventures he had always dreamed of, running ultra marathons, including  a race across the Atacama desert, followed by rowing across the Atlantic. Ian is co-founder of https://shackleton.com/ and in the spirit of the famous explorer we discuss pushing your limits an...

Jason and Greg chat to Joe Eisenmann, PhD , Head of Sport Science at Volt Athletics . Joe has 25+ years of experience as a university professor, researcher, sport scientist, strength and conditioning coach, and sport coach focusing on youth athletic development. Joe chats about his view of exercise as medicine and how he is meticulous about building some form of resistance and aerobic exercise int...

We've all probably heard the theory that exercise builds muscle because it breaks down the muscle fibre and then rebuilds through scar tissue. Well it turns out that's wrong. Jason and Greg chat to Professor Eugene Terentjev and Neil Ibata of Cambridge University Cavendish Lab. Their latest research has answered how exercise builds muscle. Not only that, the physicists have built a  math...

Greg and Jason chat to Phil Cavell about his book, The Midlife Cyclist.  Phil is a co-founder and director at Cyclefit and having fitted hundreds of midlife cyclists to bikes and been a lifelong cyclist himself is well placed to talk about how we should approach cycling in our middle years.  In writing the book, Phil tapped into a number of experts and has done a superb job of curating the informa...

Greg chats to Jason and asks why is heart rate variability important and how can it be used to inform your training and life in general? In this podcast we mention HRV4Training for measuring heart rate variability, and they have kindly given us a 15% DISCOUNT CODE OFF HRV4T PRO SUBSCRIPTION PLAN. TO GET THIS, USE THE CODE  “MIDLIFEATHLETE” Click here to find out more about HRV4T Pro There is also...

We've recommissioned ourselves! Jason and Greg are back for season 2 and chat about forthcoming guests and themes as well as what they've been exploring as mid life athletes. Support the show Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and automatically get our latest podcasts, blogs, offers etc into your inbox.

Flying solo for the last episode of Season 1, Jason chats to mid life cyclist, Emma Potter. She is an audax cyclist and just completed the Pennine Rally, a 500km+ self supported & off-road ride from Edinburgh to Manchester. Emma explains all about the audax or 'gravdax' scene as we've dubbed it! Sign up here for our newsletter  Twitter: @PodMid Instagram: Mid Life Athlete Suppor...

Jason and Greg catch up on previous episodes and look forward to the final shows of Season 1 and In between chat about their own fitness and exercise plans.  Twitter @PodMid Instagram Mid life athlete Support the show Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and automatically get our latest podcasts, blogs, offers etc into your inbox.