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Ageless Athlete — Healthy Aging for a Strong, Capable Life
Ageless Athlete — Healthy Aging for a Strong, Capable Life
Kush Khandelwal

Ageless Athlete — Healthy Aging for a Strong, Capable Life

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Ageless Athlete is a podcast about healthy aging for people who refuse to decline quietly.


Conversations with top athletes, scientists, coaches, and thinkers about staying strong, active, and capable as we age. We explore strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, VO2 max, muscle and bone health—and what actually helps us keep doing the things we love for decades.


What changes. What breaks. What actually works.


Hosted by Kush Khandelwal — rock climber, athlete, and entrepreneur, a lifelong student of performance, and someone figuring this out in real time.

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You Are Losing Physical Abilities Over Time — Even If You Train Hard Today | Dan Edwardes
19 August 2026

You Are Losing Physical Abilities Over Time — Even If You Train Hard Today | Dan Edwardes

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨You can train hard, stay fit, and still lose physical abilities you are no longer asking your body to use.Dan Edwardes has spent more than two decades at the forefront of parkour as a practitioner, coach, and movement educator. His work has helped shape parkour into a global movement practice, with coach...
Training Secrets of the World’s Best Athletes Over 50
12 August 2026

Training Secrets of the World’s Best Athletes Over 50

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨What do the world’s best athletes over 50 do differently?After more than 140 conversations with elite climbers, cyclists, surfers, runners, mountaineers, and coaches, I went back through the Ageless Athlete archive looking for the patterns.The sports are different. The principles are surprisingly...
Building Muscle Isn’t Enough — How to Stay Capable as Your Body Changes | Rob Lea
05 August 2026

Building Muscle Isn’t Enough — How to Stay Capable as Your Body Changes | Rob Lea

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨If you’re over 40, one of the hardest truths to accept is that the body and training approach that got you here may not be the one that carries you forward.In this episode, Rob Lea, 45, shares what it took to become the first person in history to complete the Double Seven — climbing the highest summit on...
Faster In His 60s: The Training That Took Him To A World Record | Joe Barr, 67
29 July 2026

Faster In His 60s: The Training That Took Him To A World Record | Joe Barr, 67

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨At 66, Joe Barr rode 2,448 miles along Route 66 in just over ten days and set a new world record.What makes that achievement even more remarkable is that Joe believes he became a better athlete in his sixties.In this conversation, Joe explains how experience changed the way he trains, recovers, manages...
Your Gym Strength May Fail You — What an Everest Guide Knows About Staying Ready | Luis Benitez
22 July 2026

Your Gym Strength May Fail You — What an Everest Guide Knows About Staying Ready | Luis Benitez

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨The fittest people do not always reach the summit.Luis Benitez has climbed Everest six times and spent years guiding on the world’s highest mountains. What he learned is that success depends on more than strength. Patience, judgment, adaptability, and the ability to stay steady when the plan falls apart...
Stop Living in the Gray Zone — The 80/20 Rule for Training and Life | Matt Fitzgerald
15 July 2026

Stop Living in the Gray Zone — The 80/20 Rule for Training and Life | Matt Fitzgerald

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Most athletes know how to train hard. Far fewer know how to go truly easy.Matt Fitzgerald is one of the most influential writers and coaches in endurance sports. After developing severe long COVID, Matt lost the ability to run for nearly three years. Then, despite the risks, he committed to running a...
Melatonin, Naps, and Tracking: What You're Getting Wrong About Sleep | Dr. Martin Kawalski, Stanford Sleep Expert
08 July 2026

Melatonin, Naps, and Tracking: What You're Getting Wrong About Sleep | Dr. Martin Kawalski, Stanford Sleep Expert

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Sleep is not just about feeling tired tomorrow.In this episode, Stanford sleep researcher Dr. Martin Kawalski explains why sleep often gets harder after 50, why older adults do not simply “need less sleep,” and why getting the basics wrong for long enough may affect how well we age.One of the biggest ideas...
Stay Strong Into Your 80s — What This Athlete Does Differently | Bob Becker, 82
01 July 2026

Stay Strong Into Your 80s — What This Athlete Does Differently | Bob Becker, 82

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Most people don't notice they're declining until it's too late.Bob Becker offers a very different model.He didn't discover running until he was 57. Twenty-five years later, at age 80, he returned to Badwater 135 — a brutal 135-mile ultramarathon across Death Valley in temperatures above 120°F — and became...
The Truth About Strength No One Tells You | Ethan Pringle
24 June 2026

The Truth About Strength No One Tells You | Ethan Pringle

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Ethan Pringle has climbed some of the hardest routes in the world. But this episode is about the kind of strength climbing does not train you for.After his father suffered a devastating stroke, Ethan found himself living two lives: pro climber on the road, and son/caregiver back home.We talk about grief,...
The Scientist Trying to Stop Aging — What Most People Still Don’t Understand | Dr. Bill Andrews, 74
17 June 2026

The Scientist Trying to Stop Aging — What Most People Still Don’t Understand | Dr. Bill Andrews, 74

Ageless Athlete Newsletter. Weekly longevity insights + behind-the-scenes. No spam ever. 🚨Most of us think aging happens slowly in the background. Dr. Bill Andrews thinks we may be aging faster than we need to.Bill is a molecular biologist, founder of Sierra Sciences, and a longtime researcher in telomere and telomerase biology. He has spent most of his life asking whether aging itself can be...