Your fastest 10K isn't behind you

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

Between 44 and 46, I took two and a half minutes off my 10K.

Not by training more. By training different things.

At 44, I was running four days a week and lifting four days a week. If you'd shown me that schedule on someone else's spreadsheet, I'd have called it a strong program. Consistent, balanced, sustainable.

It was also incomplete.

There are nine trainable AGE ATHLETICALLY™ skills and they sort into three groups:

THE ENGINE — the foundation that powers you
Endurance: your engine over the long haul
Stamina: your engine at higher intensity
Strength: your ability to overcome resistance

THE WINGS — your flight skills
Power: your ability to produce force quickly
Speed: your ability to repeat movement quickly
Spring: your elastic ability to load, release, and rebound

THE COMPASS — your body's intelligence and resilience
Balance & coordination: your control of your body in space
Agility: your ability to change direction with precision
Mobility: your joints' ability to move through full range of motion

I'd only been training four out of nine—three in the Engine and one in the Compass.

My week was full. It just wasn't complete.

Like many midlife athletes, the skills I'd been skipping are the ones that fade first in midlife ... unless you specifically train to keep them.

So it's not actually age that robs us of them—it's undertraining them.

Two years later AND two years older, I'm training all nine athletic skills. Same number of sessions. Same hours. Two and a half minutes faster.

So: how many of the nine are you actually training?

Join me for:

NOT DONE YET

A free live training audit with Alison

Monday, September 7 at 12:00pm ET

We'll audit your training log live on the call and see exactly where the gaps are and you'll leave knowing what's missing.

This one is live and interactive and there's no replay — if you want the live audit, you'll want to save your seat and be in the room.

SAVE MY SEAT

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P.S. Can't be there live? Grab the training audit doc here and see how your training stacks up.

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