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Sponsor: RePowerU — FREE Fitness Practices Assessment (a 10-minute questionnaire): https://formfaca.de/sm/SR_8_j7es Outline of discussion – How to really use strength training to improve endurance athletics Strength training for cyclists, done the right way, is not sexy. Upper body and rotatory stability (ability to lock the hips and ribcage together to resist twisting that would result in power l...

This is episode 37 with Shawn Anderson, who is just back from a 250 mile trek across Spain.  Shawn is a guy who does things.  Big things that most people wouldn’t dream of doing.  But Shawn thinks we all should get out of our comfort zone….do something, anything bigger than we are comfortable doing.  If only just to stretch ourselves a little bit.  And once you start, who knows where you’ll go. I...

TriDoc Jeff Sankoff is the TriDoc, an emergency physician, triathlete and USAT and Ironman University certified triathlon coach. Jeff is an accomplished triathlete with more than 75 70.3 finishes including six World championship finishes and six Ironmans including one World Championship finish. He has been a medical contributor to Triathlete, Inside Triathlon and Beginner Triathlete magazines and...

The Science and Practice of Extending Healthspan and Athletic Performance Longevity for Older Athletes via Biomarker and DNA Analysis Today’s WiseAthletes episode is with one of the leading minds in the basic biology of aging and translating scientific discoveries into new ways of detecting and preventing age-related conditions. Gil Blander, PhD. Gil is the founder of InsideTracker, the only fitne...

Can you achieve greater endurance with improved chest expansion? Today’s WiseAthletes episode is with Bob Prichard of Somax Performance Institute. Bob, Glen and I talk to about a Microfiber Reduction treatment he developed for improving restricted chest expansion. Microfibers are scar tissue, which Bob says is very common, especially among those who have ever had injuries to their ribcage and surr...

Topics in today’s episode: How can the cyclist be safer on the road? How can the cyclist get justice (and compensation) if injured in a bike-car crash? What are the cyclists’ rights and obligations on the road? What insurance should the cyclist have, just in case? The Cyclist-Lawyer, Megan Hottman, Attorney at Law Megan Hottman has represented over 160 cyclists in their individual legal cases. She...

My motivation to starting Wise Athletes was to uncover knowledge that would help older athletes like myself to slow the progression of the symptoms of aging on athletic performance and on life in general.  I don’t particularly like the idea of getting old, and I’m happiest when I can forget my age because my body is working well …..working like it did when I was younger. Dr. Mike T Nelson’s progra...

Mastering Sleep for Better Recovery The one thing the masters athlete needs to do to speed up recovery is sleep, which is the one thing most of us just cannot do well anymore. Listen in as Dr Bender shares the tools you need to master your sleep. Amy Bender, MS, PhD Director Clinical Sleep Science at Cerebra, a digital health company focused on improving access to advanced digital sleep analysis a...

Our topic today is mushrooms, and whether mushrooms are a missing element in the older athletes’ arsenal of performance, recovery, and longevity.  Helping Glen and I to better understand mushrooms is Jeff Chilton, an expert in the study of historical uses and impact of medicinal mushrooms, and who is also the Founder of Nammex, the very first company to supply medicinal mushroom extracts to the nu...

SBT GRVL is a world-class gravel race experience held on the amazing gravel roads in and around the iconic Steamboat Springs, CO. The combination of the great views and fun people make for an unforgettable gravel riding experience. Listen in as Glen and I talk to Amy Charity about the 2021 SBT GRVL (Steamboat Gravel race). She even reveals how you might guarantee a spot in the 2022 event. Amy Char...

I asked Dr. Stephen Seiler to join me on Wise Athletes to discuss Athletic Performance Longevity. We discuss his research and speculate about how older athletes can keep the machinery healthy for performance today while also doing the right things for athletic longevity, which is way more than just healthspan. You and I, we all want to be strong, healthy, and athletic as long as we live. Guideline...

In part 1 ( Episode 24 ) of this 2-part series about what to do in the 24 hours before a race or big event, we talked mostly about the “warmup”.  Glen talked in detail about what he does in his extensive warmup that he needs to perform his best, which is complicated by many old injuries (to his back and heart, primarily) and just simply, a body that is getting older.  Episode 24: The 4-Step Winkel...

It wasn’t 6 months ago that I was thinking that someone should organize a gravel race somewhere along the Peak-to-Peak highway above the Denver-Metro area. I was starting to think I might have to do it myself when I heard about NedGravel. It sounds amazing. I’m definitely going to ride in this one. Listen in as I talk to Gavin Coombs, Founder and Race Director of NedGravel about how he and his tea...

Today Glen and I are joined by Jesse Jarjour of MyVeloFit, the recently publicized “ World’s First AI Powered Online Bike Fit.”  I tried the MyVeloFit system to test my own fit…..I learned a ton, and you should do the same. It is an amazing bit of technology. www.myvelofit.com Jesse and his team designed the MyVeloFit system to mirror the process you would experience during a professional bike fit...

Glen and I are joined today by Inspirational athlete, Triny Willerton, who is the founder of ItCouldBeMe (itcouldbeme.org), a non-profit on a mission to change the relationship between drivers and vulnerable users of the road by re-humanizing cyclists and creating a movement of mutual responsibility and respect to make roads safer together. Just a few years earlier, Triny decided to get back into...

Our talk today will be about the nonprofit LoveYourBrain .   I wish everyone, and especially cyclists, knew about LoveYourBrain and its fantastic support of the traumatic brain injured…but they don’t…at least not yet.  While I had heard of LoveYourBrain through a friend of mine who was hit by a car while riding his bike in the mountains of Colorado, I didn’t really understand how important it was...

The Warm Up for the Older Athlete– by Glen Winkel When I first started bike racing 40 years ago, I didn’t know anything about the warmup, stretching, etc. Sometimes, I would literally jump out of my car, pin my numbers on and hit the start line. And then drill it from the start! Nowadays, I am much more methodical in my warmup and I want to share with you what I have learned and tie in the cardiov...

I am joined today by Patrick Bohan, the author of “How a Neurological Disorder Changed My Life for the Better.”  Patrick is a writer and an avid cyclist who has won state and national championships despite being afflicted by two neurological disorders. While it’s true that Patrick has two neurological disorders, but they do not have him.  Listen in as Patrick explains how his outlook on life and a...

Your body has adapted to sitting in a chair. Learn how to become strong again for life, and how to capture more power on the bike. Oh yeah, and eliminate back pain. What do masters cyclists have in common with professional cyclists? Did you hear about the study of 116 professional cyclists to see who had back pain? 58% had experienced lower back pain in the previous 12 months. 41% had sought medic...

Glen and I are joined today by Lauren Costantini.   Lauren has a PhD in Neuroscience, was CEO of a wearable sensors company, has been a nationally-ranked professional bike racer (including a bronze at Worlds), and now own 3 businesses: a biotech consulting firm (LCC Consulting, LLC), an adventure tour guide company ( P.E.D.A.L. Adventures ), and a nutrition and wellness coaching company ( Confluen...

Glen and I are joined today by Rob Andrew and Joseph Vigil of Cyclists 4 Community.  C4C was founded only 7 years ago; how C4C has accomplished so much in such a short time is a fascinating story of camaraderie and generosity and determination to make cycling safer on the roads of Boulder county.   If you are in the Boulder County area, you have to hear Rob and Joseph tell the C4C story.  If you l...

The perfect nutrition plan is so simple that there are obviously no oversights, not so complex that there are no obvious oversights. (borrowed from Tony Hoare ). Today we’ll focus on considerations for how to use nutrition to improve the older athlete’s ability to recover from exercise. The nutritional knowledge we discuss will be useful to any athlete on any diet.  But still, each of us has to ma...

Glen and I are joined today by Rich Voss of Voss on Track Coaching.  Rich is a highly accomplished track cycling racer and coach.  Rich is a 5x masters world champion, 14x masters national champion, and he has coached 5 masters world champions plus many masters national champions.  And, Rich has set 5 masters world records over the years.  Yeah, Rich knows power:  how to train with power, how to b...

Glen and I are joined once again by Jeff Winkler of Winkler Cycling ( winklercycling.com ) in Boulder, Colorado.  You’ll recall that Jeff is a Category 1 USAC coach who has over 30 years of experience in bicycle racing.  He started racing as a junior athlete and rose up through the ranks to become a professional cyclist racing in the U.S. and Europe.  As a coach,  Jeff has worked with racers in ro...

Today, we are joined by Mindee Stevenson, who is the current masters world champion in the team pursuit.  Mindee has been winning races on the velodrome for many years.  After winning the Masters World Championship in the Team Pursuit in 2019, Mindee discovered she had bladder cancer.  Listen in as Mindee walks us through her racing as an elite cyclist, and her later return to racing as a masters...