Summary of Joe Friel's Fast After 50

By IRB Media

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#1 If you want to be fast after 50, you must be prepared to consider many matters. You must be an athlete all your life, and competition is a big part of who you are. If you have determination, you can do it.

#2 The choices you make every day are important for your health. They are not just about training, but also about lifestyle decisions, big or small. All are important.

#3 The key mind-set for athletes is to constantly seek more flow and fluidity, more power within the range of motion required of them, and to constantly work just that little bit beyond what is required on race day.

#4 Body learning is the process of focusing on one aspect of your surfing and improving it until it becomes second nature. It takes about a year to gain what you are looking for from each part of your surfing, but it is worth it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669380009

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#1

If you want to be fast after 50, you must be prepared to consider many matters. You must be an athlete all your life, and competition is a big part of who you are. If you have determination, you can do it.

#2

The choices you make every day are important for your health. They are not just about training, but also about lifestyle decisions, big or small. All are important.

#3

The key mind-set for athletes is to constantly seek more flow and fluidity, more power within the range of motion required of them, and to constantly work just that little bit beyond what is required on race day.

#4

Body learning is the process of focusing on one aspect of your surfing and improving it until it becomes second nature. It takes about a year to gain what you are looking for from each part of your surfing, but it is worth it.

#5

The symptoms of aging are common in normal aging people, but not for the human genus or the entire Homo sapiens species. These types are unhealthy, and they believe they have no control over it.

#6

The symptoms of aging that concern athletes include aerobic capacity, maximal heart rate, the volume of blood pumped with each heartbeat, muscle fibers being lost, and aerobic enzymes in the muscles becoming less effective and abundant.

#7

The best endurance athletes are able to continue to perform at a high level well into their 40s, but the downward trend continues after that. By the mid-40s, there are no more professional athletes in the most popular endurance sports.

#8

By looking at the race results of world- and national-class age-group athletes, we can get a better indication of the limits of human performance and how rapidly the decline in performance occurs with aging.

#9

There are definite trends illustrated by these charts. The best age-group athletes slow down as they get older. The rates of falling off in elite masters performances at national championships in swimming and triathlon are similar.

#10

The so-called silent generation, those born between 1929 and 1945, didn’t have the same exposure to sport and fitness as the baby boomers did. They grew up during the Great Depression, World