At what age did you start noticing that it took you longer to recover from workouts?

I'm 50

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i recover fine if my milage is high

you just get slower

fgfg wrote:

I'm 50

BS Runners World question

i recover fine if my milage is high

you just get slower

Your answer is bullshit. Either you weren´t very good during your prime years or you´re just afraid to admit that it takes longer to recover from workouts.

35

I'm 32 and find that I'm needing an extra day or two, more so that just 4 or 5 years ago.

12 Quarters kind of knocked me for a loop the other day. Course, I'm coming back after lay-off of 11 months with no workouts or races.

I noticed it after 35 for sure. But what I notice now more than anything is if I go play a pick-up game of flag football or wake board I am a crippled old man for almost a week. "back in the day" I remember I could go out one random weekend and play b-ball for 8 hours straight and wake up the next morning like nothing happened. Enjoy your youth you youngins.

I started to notice at 33. Still setting PR's and running solid workouts, just takes longer to recover from hard efforts.

The reality for me was after 25 I noticed I needed more recovery.

I know if I don't stretch after a run, I can really feel it. But, 10-15 minutes of static stretching (post run) & I feel great.

Um, I would say in my early 30's I noticed if I took time off it was harder to "get back in shape."

fgfg wrote:

I'm 50

BS Runners World question

i recover fine if my milage is high

you just get slower

well. wrote:

Your answer is bullshit. Either you weren´t very good during your prime years or you´re just afraid to admit that it takes longer to recover from workouts.

No your are just not smart enough to understand what he is saying. Either that or you are afraid to admit you don't do enough mileage.

fgfg is absolutely right. You do recover fine if mileage is high. What you lose is the ability to recover fine if mileage is NOT high. And you do get slower.

fgfg wrote:

I'm 50

BS Runners World question

i recover fine if my milage is high

you just get slower

BULLLLLLLLLLLL shhhhhiiii ttttttt

No way you recover as fast at 50 as at 25.

I really noticed it in my mid30's, but I wasnt doing much running then. I REALLY notice it now at age 43.

um no. wrote:

fgfg wrote:

I'm 50

BS Runners World question

i recover fine if my milage is high

you just get slower

well. wrote:

Your answer is bullshit. Either you weren´t very good during your prime years or you´re just afraid to admit that it takes longer to recover from workouts.

No your are just not smart enough to understand what he is saying. Either that or you are afraid to admit you don't do enough mileage.

fgfg is absolutely right. You do recover fine if mileage is high. What you lose is the ability to recover fine if mileage is NOT high. And you do get slower.

Even more BS. It doesn´t matter how much mileage you do. Nobody on this planet recovers as fast when they are 50 as when they are 25 - that is part of the ageing and one of the main reasons you get slower.

It depends. I am 40 and have no issues with mileage, long runs or tempo/marathon pace workouts. But if I do shorter faster stuff (800-400 etc), I always end up with some soft tissue ache or pain. I also find that hard training accumulates faster than when I was younger. If I do a lot of racing and training over a 4-6 week period, I quickly reach a point of diminishing returns and need to back off for a bit.

I generally need a 15 minute rebound period at the age of 40. When I was 18 it was wam bam thank you mam followed by wam bam thank you mam.

I'm 44, 3 years back in training after a 15 year layoff.

It's honestly hard to say. Everything has slowed down (all paces equally). But I spent a LOT of my youth sore from workouts too, and the shape of a week's training is pretty similar.

I suspect that for most 40-year-olds, the external stresses are greater and that's much of the difference. When on vacation I can still happily do a hard session every second day, an easy run in between, lots of other sports, drink lots of beer and sleep as much as I want, and I progress rapidly - just like college! But in normal life, with work and family to deal with and a bit less sleep than is ideal, I'm just generally more tired and two easy days after a hard session works better than one.

I think I have finally understood the obvious: you wait for your body to adapt and supercompensate after a stress before you stress it again.

I agree. I'm 40. When I switched from working in an office to working independently and part-time from home, my training became much easier. I can do a longer run every other day with no problem, speed 2-3 times per week, also no problem. Having time for sleep and other things to take care of myself, like preparing food to eat well, made a big difference.

I ran 40-50 mpw pretty steadily from age 30 onward, with a lot of it structured as middle distance interval training. I really started to see a noticeable increase in recovery time at about 47. From 47 to 60 there has been a more gradual increase in recovery time, and it is much more noticeaable for high intensity workouts than for moderate pace volume.

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Actually, well is 100 percent correct in my case. I maintained my speed well into my late 30s. However, I couldn't recover from workouts - including long runs. Sure you lose speed. But recovery was what killed me. Oh, and it was at about age 36-37.

At 35, almost like flipping a switch. No gradual onset, just boom. And I can really tell now (at 42).