The Still Going Strong Past 50 Program

Admit it. You’ve been training for years and have experienced aches and pains on occasion.

Even if your training has been orthopedically-safe, there is regular wear-and-tear on your joints. It’s inevitable. Unfortunately, it’s going to happen if you do something as opposed to nothing. However, you can at least continue training provided you emphasize safe training modes.

Admit it. You’ve been training for years and have experienced aches and pains on occasion.

In my case, I still have that go-for-the-throat training mentality and often act like a 25-year-old, but my body says, “Hey! You’re over 50!”

Subsequent aches and tweaks are the wake up call not to be ignored unless I want to end up debilitated and walking on crutches.

If this sounds like your story, then it may be time to back off and enter a training segment that is joint-friendly, lower volume, yet effective. You still want to work relatively hard, but with different methods.

The goal of the program still parallels the on-going mission of the Mature Athlete Program:

Increasing or maintaining muscle strength to counter Sarcopenia
Improved cardio-vascular endurance
Better functional ability via the above

This 12-week cycle is broken down over three training days per week:

Training day one = body weight circuit + conditioning
Training day two = strength training only
Training day three = conditioning + strength training

The ultimate goal of this cycle is to progress your training with limited pounding on your joints. You’ve been around a while so you can surely use these joint-friendly exercise recommendations.