Category: The Older Trainee

Yours Baldly serves up the bitterest of pills

The other day, Jess and I got to talking about the importance of accepting your limitations. Example:  If you start training in your 30s, 40s, or beyond or if you return to training having taken the balance of your most productive years (i.e. your teens and twenties) off, there is going to be a hard […]

Grappling with my mortality

Lately, I cannot shake the sense of my mortality. Why? For the very first time in my life, I am truly feeling my age. Not so much in the day to day stuff, but definitely in the gym and out on the road. Here’s what I mean by that: Few weeks back, I decided to […]