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  • How to Race Strong for the Rest of Your Life
  • By: Joe Friel
  • Narrated by: Douglas James
  • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (30 ratings)
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Summary

Fast After 50 is for every endurance athlete who wants to stay fast for years to come. 

For runners, cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, and cross-country skiers, getting older doesn't have to mean getting slower. Drawing from the most current research on aging and sports performance, Joe Friel - America's leading endurance sports coach - shows how athletes can race strong and stay healthy well past age 50. 

In his groundbreaking book Fast After 50, Friel offers a smart approach for athletes to ward off the effects of age. Friel shows athletes how to extend their racing careers for decades - and race to win. 

Fast After 50 presents guidelines for high-intensity workouts, focused strength training, recovery, crosstraining, and nutrition for high performance: 

  • How the body's response to training changes with age, how to adapt your training plan, and how to avoid overtraining 
  • How to shed body fat and regain muscle density 
  • How to create a progressive plan for training, rest, recovery, and competition 
  • Workout guidelines, field tests, and intensity measurement 

In Fast After 50, Joe Friel shows athletes that age is just a number - and race results are the only numbers that count. 

With contributions from: Mark Allen, Gale Bernhardt, Amby Burfoot, Dr. Larry Creswell, John Howard, Dr. Tim Noakes, Ned Overend, Dr. John Post, Dr. Andrew Pruitt, and Lisa Rainsberger. This audiobook is skillfully narrated by Douglas James. All figures and tables referenced in the audiobook can be found in the supplementary PDF. 

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2015 Joe Friel (P)2019 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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Good information - but could do with an edit.

This is good overview for the over 50 athlete and the accomplish PFF contains all the associated tables etc.

I think it’s likely to be something to review over time so having a copy of the book itself may be worthwhile.

This could do with a little tightening up by a good editor, but I’d still recommend anyone wanting to maintain fitness as they age listens to this.

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Great book

Excellent book, reenforces a lot of things related to exercise, training and diet that I have discovered myself over the last 50 + years
Weight training and a diet similar to his recommendations have helped me stay strong, fit and complete ultra marathons as I approach 60, As a recent convert to running from other sports I can only see myself continuing to get faster in my 60's and beyond.
I'm not sure why he recommends checking things with doctors though, I consider my good health and strength/fitness to be largely as a result of avoiding doctors and mainstream medical and dietary advice!

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OMG

Such an incredibly overly technical, American style repetitive guide!
Really struggled to get through this enthusiasm destroying, monotonous, brain numbing book. The author really needs to learn how to write an interesting book rather than repeating technical studies and research results.
However, I would concede that the written version is probably much better in that the accompanying tables of results and training programs would greatly help in the presentation of data!
Just extremely happy to have got to the end so I don't have to listen to the monotonous American narration. You will learn as much from a 10 minute You Tube clip than you will from this book.

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Fascinating insight

This is a great book if your interested in the facts of the ageing athlete and how to give yourself the best chance to increase your goals in later years. I love the fact that on Audible you can listen on the go. I listened to the whole book on 3 training rides. Now I need to write down all the interesting points and make my own bible. Happy riding everyone!

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Excellent and authoritative

Very knowledgeable assessment of how to optimise performance and minimise age related decline. I find it a very useful way to tweak my training for best results.

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