Does maintaining a high exercise-training stimulus limit the rate of decline in endurance performance with advancing age in master athletes?
Master athletes demonstrate that maintaining a high exercise-training stimulus can limit the age-related decline in endurance performance and physiological function.
can be sustained (i.e., lactate threshold), seem to decline to a lesser extent with advancing age. The ability to maintain a high exercise-training stimulus with advancing age is emerging as the single most important means of limiting the rate of decline in endurance performance. By constantly extending the limits of (ultra)-endurance, master athletes therefore represent an important insight into the ability of humans to maintain physical performance and physiological function with advancing age.
Lepers et al. (Mon,) studied this question.