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#53 — Wearables for Health & Fitness — Adam Bataineh MD

Sponsor: RePowerU — a free fitness practices assessment (a 10-minute questionnaire) Who is Dr. Adam Bataineh? Adam Bataineh, MD: Internal medicine doctor focused on aging and longevity. Co-founder and chief medical officer of Span Health, a longevity-focused health coaching app. The focus of the Wise Athletes podcast is older athletes, and how they can improve…

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#52 — Make Your Joints Last a Lifetime – Howard Luks, MD

Dr. Luks is a top Orthopedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine Physician who is also a masters athlete. Dr Luks knows all too well how hard it can be and how important it is to remain athletic for the pleasures it brings to life as well as for the many health and longevity benefits that cannot be obtained in any other way. In our talk we discuss the many aspects of making your joints last a lifetime.

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#51 — The AFib Cure Co-Author, Dr John Day

Long time, competitive endurance athletes show a higher risks of AFib, which is a marker of premature aging. The faster you solve AFib, the better your long-term outcome. Ablation technologies have come a long way….success rates of 80-90% can be expected

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Bonus: Slaying Myths & Adapting to Nasal Breathing

This is a shortened version of Episode 50 (1.5 hours long)….I cut out the good and left the great parts of the story from George Dallam, PhD on nasal breathing for health and performance.

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#50 — The Science of Better Breathing with George Dallam, PhD

Nasal breathing is not a trick or hack to get an unnatural advantage.  Nasal breathing is the designed in way to breathe properly.  Not nasal breathing causes problems which can be undone by starting to nasal breathe.
Dr. Dallam says, “One simple rule:  breath through nose all the time, or as much as possible.”

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#48 — Breathwork for Faster Recovery — Matthew Smith, EverAthlete

Breathwork is the deliberate practice of breath to improve your state of being.  Faster breathing does not result in “super oxygenation” of the blood.  It just removes more CO2, which makes it harder to capture oxygen from breathing.

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#46 — Forestalling Age with Fitness with Dr. Stephen Black

Be sure to listen in as Stephen explains his philosophy of proactively addressing imbalances, deficiencies, and poor movement patterns to help older athletes become healthier and stronger while having fun. We go through the process Stephen follows with his clients to provide personalized training and nutritional plans to help them get to where they want to go from wherever they are, and he reviews some basic interventions that tend to apply to most people.

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#45 — Build Strong Habits with Samuel Salzer

Sam Salzer is a Behavioral Strategist specializing in applying insights from Behavioral Science and Behavioral Economics to fuel habit formation. Join Sam as he makes the world a better place, one good habit at a time.

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#44 – Chris Schwenker, PT, Virtual Cycling’s Biggest Fan

Indoor Virtual Cycling is the evolution of our great sport. Listen to Chris Schwenker, P.T., virtual cycling’s biggest fan and publisher of Zommunique talk about how he uses and promotes virtual cycling to find fun, camaraderie, fitness and more.

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#43 – Yoga for Cyclists with Hunter Allen

Hunter was looking for a solution to undo some of that tension he had put into his body by riding so much for so long. Hunter found that yoga helped him to build muscles that were more supple…not just chiseled and ripped but also flexible and resilient

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