Joe Friel has spent decades coaching endurance athletes and studying how the body changes with age. At 82, he’s still training, still riding, and still adapting.
In this conversation, Joe shares what aging actually feels like as an athlete: losing muscle mass, recovering slower, dealing with injury, and learning how to keep going anyway. He explains why aerobic training matters more than most people realize, the biggest mistakes aging athletes make, and how training must evolve after 50.
We also talk about identity, resilience, recovery, mobility, injury prevention, and what it means to stay athletic for life.
