endurance decline with age??

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boxer

Cathlete
HI Cathe
Anyone notice endurance decline with age? I work out 6 days a week alot of cardio weights 3 x sometimes I feel weeker instead of stronger? Should I take time off? I only take 1 day off a week
 
Hi Boxer-
Not Cathe but I have found that in my mid forties my body said " Less cardio please and consistent strength training!". That took care of my growing fatigue.
Provided you are ok health wise with evertything else I say give a new type of rotation a try and maybe try 30 minute cardios (if ya just gotta do 5-6 days) or lay off and try a 45-60 min cardio 3 days.
Just play with it and dont get discouraged! I've been doing Cathe for 4 months now and years of aerobics, jazzercise etc.... I have just this month found a good cardio format for myself that makes me feel awesome!
 
I would be interested in knowing what Cathe has to say about this. She's fourty something and I wonder if she feels her endurance declining from that of her younger years. She's so awesome though I sort of doubt it!

I agree with you though Boxer. I'm 46 and have been working out for 3 years now and I have seen a decline myself.
 
I ran that NYC marathon after the age of forty, and, now that I am over fifty, I notice that I get more tired, and I may need more sleep. I can still go an hour and 45 minutes of cardio many days of the week, but later on, I feel very tired.

I don't think that you have to slow down that much in your forties and fifties. I usually do an hour to an hour and 45 minutes of cardio six days a week. I do my upper body with weights twice a week and my lower body three to four times a week, and abs more often.
 
Caitlin,

Is there a reason you do 1 hour 45 minutes of cardio, precisely, each day?
 
Could you be over-training? Working out without enough rest and recovery can make you feel very tired and heavy. You might try adding a rest day here or there and see if that helps. I m 43 and my endurance is excellent, largely thanks to working out, I think. :)
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Right now, my main reason is to lose weight. When I reach my goal rate, I will probably go back to an hour. I take a total rest day when I feel my body needs it.

When I was running 55 miles a week, I was also rather tired, and I needed more sleep.
 
Boxer, I agree with you. I do feel that my endurance has declined with age, or the dread factor becomes stronger, or that I'm just more tired all the time. I'm 47, and have been working out consistently for at least 20 years. I used to wake up at 5 am before work, grab some caffeine, and start working out at 5:30 am. Now, it's all I can do to get out of bed by 5:45 and startworking out by 6:10 am. I do 40 minutes on my elliptical trainer keeping my heart rate at least at 130 bpm if not higher, but I find by 40 minutes I'm done, and can't get to 60 like I used to. I can still make it through a tough spin class, although I guess the instructor motivates me to get through it. I don't think it's your imagination...I do think we get more tired as we get older. I wish it wasn't so, at least for me, anyway. Maybe some of the other ladies aren't experiencing this, and they are lucky! Keep working though!
 
I might still have excellent endurance at the age of 53 because I was training for marathons and half-marations after the age of 40. I can go for close to two hours of step cardio on an 8 inch step, but I don't do that every day. Likewise, I didn't run 12 or 13 miles every day.

I don't think that I will ever run long distances again, though, because I do notice a change in my joints, and I take glucasamine. Even when I was a very young teacher, I would get very tired when I didn't get enough sleep. My tiredness factor never seems to change much.
 
I am 48 and also have noticed a steady decline in my cardio capacity and endurance with age. I wish it weren't so. But at least I know I'm not the only one.
Beth
 
I work out for two hours a few times a week and try to sandwich the workouts with more moderate, lower impact workouts to prevent injury. The thing for me is cardio, my true love. When I do even long strength work, I crave cardio and have to add some. I love the 90 min. premix from Step, Jump and Pump and Step Blast. Today I did Bootcamp and added Rhtymic Step because, hey, it was only 8 minutes of cardio. :) Caitlin, I found getting to 50 miles per week when training to marathon, I would get very tired out and heavy-limbed. I have definitely been guilty of over-training at times but these days, I go low impact with Low Max or use the elliptical to balance out the need for a little extra cardio. I love that many of Cathe's workouts are such endurance builders they can be used to substitute running to save my limbs. I am less energetic generally speaking but my endurance remains very good. I can give my kids aged, 8, 15 and 17, a run for thier money. ;) I don't think a decline in endurance is a given. May of the effects of aging are a result of the loss of muscle mass which is a result of slowing down, thinking that losing endurance is a given. Eatiing properly, getting at least 7 hours of sleep per night and making certain 1 or two of my weekly workouts are very vigorous, I intend to be as active in ten and twenty years as I am at 43, was at 30. Caitlin, you are a wild woman. You go, girl!
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Dear Bobbi,

I also go low impact when I feel anything in my knees hurting, and on Saturday, I did the kickbox of the CXT DVD without using my weighted gloves, and I did LowMax after. It burned a very nice 600 calories. Step has half the impact of running, and, even, Rhythmic Step can be rather low impact if you leave out the jumping. I usually do my step workouts on an 8 inch step, and I still get a decent workout even if I don't jump. Bootcamp plus RS is some workout, and I commend you.

I get more than seven hours of sleep a night, but I have always needed 8 or 9. I guess I am a little bit wild, Bobbi, and when my dear boyfriend was away on business for a month, I dated a 39 year old who is in the Air Force. He is a nice 6'2', 200 pound hunk, and he has a great personality. He contacted me when he knew he was going to be stationed in New Jersey for five weeks, and I had a nice four dates with him. He is back in DC now, and I don't feel a shred of guilt, as Dirk and I are not engaged, and we are not married. Dirk came back from his business trip, and things are great between us as always.
 
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