FITNESS OVER 50
Fitness is the most powerful predictor of how healthfully you will age. Improving your fitness over 50 years old is incredibly powerful for lengthening your healthy life.
VO2Max, for example, is one of the most powerful predictors of how long you’re likely to live.
Or take the fact that moving from the least fit 20% of the population to the second least fit 20% affords a 40% decrease in all-cause mortality. With a further 30% decrease for each additional quintile you progress through.
There is no age at which the body stops responding to training. For example, the Liden 84+ study showed that fitness levels in people over 84 were a more accurate predictor of likely lifespan than was chronological age.
That said, if you’ve never trained before, or haven’t for a long while, there are some considerations; you can’t just download a program designed for 24-year-olds and run with it.
This program will guide you through just how to train. Giving you skills and knowledge that will last decades.
Pete Edwards is a performance coach with over 20 years experience in coaching athletes, teams and individuals to higher performance.
In that time, Pete has coached more than a dozen athletes to over 20 medals in 5 different sports at the World and European Championship level, including 2 world champions.
Taking the lessons learned from a decades long pursuit of excellence in personal performance, Coach Edwards is currently focused on coaching high performing individuals and organisations in athletics and business.
Winner: Mentor of the Year – East Midlands Business Leadership Awards 2025
Metabolic Health
Metabolic health includes things like blood sugar control and cholesterol levels. Root causes of many modern diseases of aging. Having more muscle and loading that muscle more are potent factors in metabolic health. Movement is medicine for many modern ills.
Longer Life
Research has consistently shown that maintaining or improving strength, cardiorespiratory fitness, and muscle mass are powerful ways to improve life span, through decreasing risk of cardiovascular events, metabolic disease, and even cognitive decline. The younger you start, the younger you stay.
More vitality
More years in our lives are on everyone’s agenda, but more life in those years makes it worthwhile. Improving fitness affords us better energy, sustains our cognitive faculties, and increases the gusto with which we can live life.
