The study also separated runners into \u201ctrained\u201d and \u201cuntrained\u201d categories. It turns out that trained runners were almost 16% faster than untrained ones.<\/p>\n Another study was done in 2003 by Stephen Bird on highly competitive male runners. After a battery of tests, they found that 10k race performance decreased at a rate of about 0.5% per year (just under 2 seconds, per mile, per year). More interesting were the results on the other tests involving physiological markers that are assumed<\/em> to decrease with age (maximum heart rate, muscular strength, and oxygen uptake, etc.). These markers decreased significantly <\/strong>slower in the trained runners than they did in the general population. What\u2019s more, <\/strong>while oxygen uptake and heart rate decreased with age, running economy<\/em>\u2014a measure of how efficient you are\u2014hardly decreases at all!<\/p>\n Hello!<\/em><\/strong> As an \u201cover 40\u201d athlete, I think it\u2019s high time we tossed out \u201cold think\u201d. Many declines in health will NOT occur in a body that works out and is fed with real, hormone & chemically free foods. Lifting weights, working out, running\u2026 is NOT age discriminatory. Rather, it is just the opposite. That\u2019s some great news\u2014and backed by science!<\/p>\n So, what are you waiting for? A wonderful mentor of mine likes to ask the question, \u201cWhat have you got to gain?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2010, a survey by Celie et al (in the European Review of Aging and Physical Activity) involving a test group size of 200,000 participants in a 15km (9-ish miles) road race revealed very interesting results. Being an analyst by day, I love this kind of research. Here\u2019s what they found: For each year over …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running-2","category-wellness-2","category-workouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jore\"](\"http:\/\/healthchicchatter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jore.jpg\")
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