Tommy Hughes runs 2:30 at Rotterdam at age 59!

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5 years ago 04/11/2019 6:47pm EDT

re: Nothing flaking off yet

Nothing flaking off yet wrote:
Armstrong what? wrote:
People make fantastic claims about drugs. Yes EPO increase red cell mass. But as I have explained many times Armstrong and all the other cyclists didn't have 10% higher power outputs. It's naive to believe that you can go beyond your natural oxygen uptake. In the case of exercise physiologists, making that claim, they are just ignorant and won't address the issues that wiser researchers point out.
Yes Armstronglivs is very opinionated and often wrong.
I'm glad you are ageing very well and drug free. Maybe you can eventually see that people have false beliefs in magic potions? Maybe not? Pharmacology in sport has other insidious dimensions you should consider.
Yeah ,stop rehashing that old statement all over again. Nobody believes you.
I just want everyone to compete based on their natural ability, whatever their age.

And if you don't compete but just fitness/rec run - what's wrong with trying to get your mojo back? ?

https://youtu.be/NHusnj0pJFs

5 years ago 04/11/2019 8:21pm EDT

re: Armstronglivs

Most of that is bogus, explainable more by lack of training and sleep than anything else, and it's no inexorable law in that many have avoided decline for decades past 30 and one reason that the differences tend to be so great is that many stop trying as hard. I have had enormous problems with calf injuries for almost ten years but have still regularly pr'd in years when I can train without the injuries.

5 years ago 04/12/2019 4:26am EDT

re: TRT is the buzzword

TRT is the buzzword wrote:
Nothing flaking off yet wrote:
Yeah ,stop rehashing that old statement all over again. Nobody believes you.
I just want everyone to compete based on their natural ability, whatever their age.
And if you don't compete but just fitness/rec run - what's wrong with trying to get your mojo back? ?
https://youtu.be/NHusnj0pJFs

The interesting figure in that report is that since 2006 prescriptions in the US for testosterone have doubled. They are expected to triple in the next five years. These are baby boomers. But let no one think that masters athletes are riding that wave.

5 years ago 04/12/2019 9:38am EDT

re: Armstronglivs

That's a fast marathon for Tommy Hughes at that age! Well done Tommy. I'm willing to bet that his VO2max hasn't changed too much since his Olympic days, certainly not the 6-10% per decade decline reported in the literature. However, his velocity has changed. I'd also be interested in his body composition (body fat and muscle mass). If he's put on a few pounds of fat and lost some muscle mass, it's conceivable that if he could reverse those that his VO2max might be very near what it used to be. Decreases in muscular strength are probably affecting his performance more than any decrease in VO2max.

At age 54 I tested in a sports performance lab at 75.6 VO2max. The highest VO2max I had when competing was 80.5, that's only a 6% decrease over 25+ years. That age 54 test was while doing less than half the milage of my younger days, plus, I weighed about 5 lbs more (probably less muscle mass and for sure more body fat). However, that age 54 VO2max was at a velocity about 30 seconds per mile slower than when I was competing.

Velocity (muscular strength ... youth, speed work, hills, resistance training, plyometrics), mitochondria (volume... more mileage), stride length (flexibility). TIME. Lot's to do! With family & work, most do not have the time for it, or the patience. Plus, it's arduous, former elites probably do not want to go through all that again, thus the VO2max declines per decade found in the literature.

4 years ago 10/28/2019 12:14am EDT

re: TRT is the buzzword

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