68 and in my second year of lifting. It's going well, and I pay a lot of attention to rest, recovery and sleep. I work upper body twice a week, lower body once a week and that's about as much as I can recover well from, even though I would love more gym time. With less emphasis on rest & recovery, I would be able to do even less.

Eat more fruits and vegetables, especially dark leafy greens and beetroot, blueberries etc...watch "The Game Changers "👊🏼

I’ll try calling in the morning - we need to do something when you’re ready!

How you gonna trail run at 81 when you got no strength in your muscles then? It’s not just cardio. Without strength, you will get injured easily.

Me too! Great gym.

FANTASTIC! Make sure you call in at the Kerrera tea room if they're open. Glad the videos have been of some help and encouragement. Great to hear from you.

Sounds great Julie!

Excellent approach

Sounds great Peter!

Well done to you (and your doctors) for getting through that. Funny enough we've just started with a powerlifting strength coach. I don't expect it will be our main thing, but the importance of lifting heavy stuff is becoming increasingly apparent. If the climbing gym in this video was closer to where we live I'm certain we'd be members.

Thank you. I don't make a big thing of it, but the shared experiences in the comments are a huge part of the series for me. We have our second session with a new strength coach tomorrow, learning what we should have been doing all along. Hope to turn that into a video in time.

You're so welcome John

Glad you enjoyed it

I suspect many of us face different obstacles. I have one planned to encourage those who don't have much activity in their lives to start.

Thank you - hope you find a way to minimise the stress.

I wish I lived closer - it's excellent

I'm seeing a new strength coach tomorrow - so much to do!

That wasn’t part of our discussion but your comment comes with excellent timing. I’m speaking the Dr Clarkson about a follow-up in a few weeks along the lines of preventative action. From my own reading there seems to be differing medical opinions on the value of CAC screening and exactly what should go into blood tests. Those differences appear greater between the UKs NHS and the US system, and might be linked to cost. But this is not the whole explanation as some US Drs disagree with CAC screening. A fine line between “worried wealthy well” and population level health care perhaps? I definitely hope to get into this without turning the channel into 60Minutes !

@@alwaysanotheradventure thanks for your comments. It was meant to underscore a comment by a climber that was told to limit his exercise to a certain heart rate. I live in Spain and i know many people from the UK and all told me the same thing which sound ridiculous as a recommendation. I also previously commented on the cardiologist and he mentioned that we still dont know why people have heart attacks. We do but their knowledge about the causes remain limited. You could recommend the book on Artherosclerosis by Dr Gregory Sloop from the USA. To me that was a very conservative and useless comment. Obviously on the channel younhave people from different ages and also different health status. I think we know doctors have to be carefull about their comments and recommendations. Your intents are honest but few people bring anything to the discussion. I have been working in the pharma industry for >30 yrs, so i have a different perspective on how to improve your health and it does lean on the US or UK stantards, it is based on research and common sense. That is why i recommended that people should have a blood test, CAC test to better evaluate their chances of heart attacks at the older ages. But it seems that people listen to doctors or recommendations from medical associations which are very very conservative. People should learn to read blood test and CAC tests results so they can challenge the medical institutions but i would not suggest this strategy for your channel. It would be helpful from the cardiologist to be more helpful in providing advices so that people would be adventurous in their training. I really laughed few weeks ago when my Irish biking friend told me that he had a heart attack because it was genetic according thonthe doctor. He was upset because i laughed at his comments. If people think heart issues are genetic, we have a real knowledge problem. In any cases, i like your videos and i know you mean the best outcome for people from nutrition ideas to wrokouts. Thanks for everything.

Thank you for the support!

there might be a few of us... (I'm 65)

Got it all into one paragraph!

Yeah, this was my thought. It's really hard and I never used to bother what my HR was doing. Clearly after a heart attack, Duncan has to listen to the advice. After listening to the cardiologist in a previous video, I now make sure that my 'easy' rides do stay easy - below 145. I only get above that once a week for deliberately controlled intensity. Apart from heart health, it seems to help me metabolise fat more readily rather than CHO.

Absolutley !!@@alwaysanotheradventure

There are some illnesses that seem inescapable. Sorry to hear that.

Excellent!

'Attitude and advice from older athletes' is the title. I'm sorry you felt that was misleading - seems spot on to me. If you mean the 3 words in the thumbnail - that's exactly how the video starts. I can't sum up everything in three words, sorry. I hope you didn't feel too cheated.

err this Simon Willis is 65 so technically ‘geriatric’ in medical terms. But if you know how I can get back to 53 I'll take it!

Good stuff Albert.