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Fast After 50

How to Race Strong for the Rest of Your Life

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Fast After 50

By: Joe Friel
Narrated by: Douglas James
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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.

This audiobook is skillfully narrated by Douglas James. All figures and tables referenced in the audiobook can be found in the supplementary PDF. 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. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Aging & Longevity Running & Jogging Triathlon Cycling Physical Exercise Nutrition Sports

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Another great book by Joe Friel with detail for men and women and interesting concepts that go against what you might think

Depth of information

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Excellent detail and right amount of science and strategy for me to write an excellent training plan and how to adapt it and test progress. I am an endurance cyclist and 10m and 25 m TT cyclist. Here’s to the the next 30 years of training!

Great information for a cyclist turning 50.

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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!

Fascinating insight

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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!

Great book

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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.

Good information - but could do with an edit.

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