Ageless Athlete — Healthy Aging for a Strong, Capable Life
Ageless Athlete is a podcast about healthy aging for people who refuse to decline quietly.
Conversations with top athletes, scientists, coaches, and thinkers about staying strong, active, and capable as we age. We explore strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, VO2 max, muscle and bone health—and what actually helps us keep doing the things we love for decades.
What changes. What breaks. What actually works.
Hosted by Kush Khandelwal — rock climber, athlete, and entrepreneur, a lifelong student of performance, and someone figuring this out in real time.
Episodes
140 episodes
Sex Can Get Better With Age — What No One Tells You | Joan Price, 82
We spend a lot of time preparing for how our bodies will change with age.We think about strength, mobility, sleep, recovery, and longevity.But almost nobody prepares for how sex, desire, intimacy, and pleasure may change too. In this...
You Are Losing Physical Abilities Over Time — Even If You Train Hard Today | Dan Edwardes
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨You can train hard, stay fit, and still lose physical abilities you are no longer ...
Training Secrets of the World’s Best Athletes Over 50
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨What do the world’s best athletes over 50 do differently?After more than 14...
Building Muscle Isn’t Enough — How to Stay Capable as Your Body Changes | Rob Lea
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨If you’re over 40, one of the hardest truths to accept is that the body and traini...
Faster In His 60s: The Training That Took Him To A World Record | Joe Barr, 67
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨At 66, Joe Barr rode 2,448 miles along Route 66 in just over ten days and set a ne...
Your Gym Strength May Fail You — What an Everest Guide Knows About Staying Ready | Luis Benitez
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨The fittest people do not always reach the summit.Luis Benitez has climbed ...
Stop Living in the Gray Zone — The 80/20 Rule for Training and Life | Matt Fitzgerald
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Most athletes know how to train hard. Far fewer know how to go truly easy.M...
Melatonin, Naps, and Tracking: What You're Getting Wrong About Sleep | Dr. Martin Kawalski, Stanford Sleep Expert
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Sleep is not just about feeling tired tomorrow.In this episode, Stanford sl...
Stay Strong Into Your 80s — What This Athlete Does Differently | Bob Becker, 82
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Most people don't notice they're declining until it's too late.Bob Becker o...
The Truth About Strength No One Tells You | Ethan Pringle
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Ethan Pringle has climbed some of the hardest routes in the world. But this episod...
The Scientist Trying to Stop Aging — What Most People Still Don’t Understand | Dr. Bill Andrews, 74
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Most of us think aging happens slowly in the background. Dr. Bill Andrews thinks w...
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The Uncomfortable Skill You May Be Avoiding - It May Set You Free | Beth Rodden
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Beth Rodden is one of the most influential climbers of her generation—known for ma...
Anti Decline Mindset — Playbook to Stay Capable | Mike Wardian, 52
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Some guests make you want to train harder. Mike Wardian makes you want to live ...
Seven Things 70-Year-Old Athletes Understand That Most of Us Learn Too Late
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Two weeks ago, I attended Vitalist Bay in B...
You Start Losing Muscle After 50 — Stop Making These Mistakes | Joe Friel, 82
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Joe Friel is 82, still training, and still paying attention. In the last five year...
Fear Is Stealing Your Life | Caroline Paul, 62
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Caroline Paul has spent decades doing things most people stop doing after 50 — fly...
The Discipline of Not Dying — This Survival Code Kept Him Alive for 18 Years | Ed Viesturs, 66
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Ed Viesturs was a childhood hero of mine. When I was younger—dreaming about mounta...
Still Getting Faster in his 60s — The Marginal Gains System | Greg Benning, 64
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Greg Benning is a masters single sculler outside Boston — and at 64, he’s still fi...
She Won the World’s Toughest Races — Then She Rebuilt | Amelia Boone
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Amelia Boone rose to prominence in the early 2010s as one of obstacle racing’s mos...
Stop Waiting for the "Perfect" Season As You Age | Cedar Wright, 51
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨What happens when the moment that changes your life doesn’t come from the “dangero...
How to Stay Calm Under Extreme Stress | Amy Gubser, 56
Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Amy Appelhans Gubsers (56) is a nurse at UCSF, a mom and grandma, and the first pe...
Don’t Try to “Fix” Your Shoulder Pain — Do This Instead | Dr Tyler Nelson
Overhead motion is everywhere — in sport and in life. This episode is a practical deep dive on shoulder pain with Dr. Tyler Nelson, who works primarily with climbers but applies the same principles across overhead athletes and a...
Your Training Has to Adapt as You Age — Or You’ll Stall | Susan Hunt, 68
What if staying athletic for life isn’t about doing one thing really well — but learning how to start over, again and again?Susan Hunt has spent the last four decades doing exactly that.She describes herself as “very averag...
3 Things You Must Do Differently After 40 to Stay Strong and Agile | Jason Hardrath
What does it take to stay capable through the years?Jason Hardrath is one of the most creative endurance athletes in the mountains today.An ultrarunner, climber, and mountain linkup specialist, Jason is known for massive si...
Why Some People Stay Capable Into Their 70s — And Others Don’t | Jack Tackle, 72
What happens when the thing that defines you is suddenly taken away?For legendary American alpinist Jack Tackle, climbing wasn’t just a sport — it was identity.For more than five decades, Jack has explored remote mountains ...
