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Do your knees, hips, shoulders, and other joints inevitably get worse as you age?

Andy McVittie takes a much more optimistic view. He argues that pain, stiffness, and age-related changes don’t automatically mean your body is fragile—or that you need to stop doing the activities you love.

In this conversation, we explore how to stay strong, mobile, and physically capable as you get older, including:

• Why pain doesn’t always mean damage
• How strength can help protect aging joints
• Why knees, shoulders, hips, and elbows often respond better to movement than avoidance
• How to rebuild confidence after injury or pain
• Why “bulletproofing” the body is the wrong mental model
• How to keep training without constantly fearing breakdown
• Why it’s never too late to get stronger

Andy’s core message is simple: aging changes the body, but it doesn’t automatically make the body fragile.

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Ageless Athlete is a podcast about healthy aging for people who want to stay strong, active and capable for life. Conversations explore strength, endurance, mobility, recovery, VO2 max, muscle and bone health, and what it takes to keep doing the things you love as you get older.

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