Ep.2/ Training for Health
CrossFit defines health as fitness across all the years of your life. This episode introduces the concept and dives into some of the key implications, particularly for those in the later years of life.
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In this episode, I interview XXX, who is a medical doctor and fitness enthusiast, and who has completed XX athletic endeavors after age 50.
We investigate the meaning of health, and how her perspective on health has changed with age, how she’s adjusted her own training to accommodate changes associated with age (and wisdom!), and the recommendations she makes to her patients to facilitate maximal health.
Health is not influenced only by physical activity, but also by other factors that influence fitness (defined by CrossFit as work capacity, or average power output, across broad time and modal domains).
In the episode, Dr. XX and I discuss the importance of exercise alongside these other factors - including nutrition, sleep, hydration, supplements, common medications, and reliance on toxic substances or behaviors - and strategies for optimizing our life choices to positively influence health.
We also talk about negative perceptions of CrossFit, and how these can inhibit older adults from being willing to enter a CrossFit gym, and what CrossFit coaches and affiliate owners can do to help combat these perceptions, alongside what older adults can do to help mitigate their risks of injury.
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Training for Health
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