A 60-year-old lifelong runner with high VO2 max may need to reduce running volume to incorporate strength training.

“so he has you know very little muscle mass and um you know this is a guy who were actually saying look you probably we're probably going to need you to run a little bit less and you know your running is amazing and you're very fortunate that you haven't been injured doing it we want you to keep running as long as you can but we also have to address some of these other issues because you do have some of the really common issues of Runners um the some of the very common balances and things like that so in his case it was like can we subtract a little bit of running time and start to get you doing strength training”

“you know we have a patient in our practice uh who's you know upon entering the practice I mean this guy's VO2 max was probably above 60 and he is 60. um but he's been a lifelong Runner so but he never touched a weight in his life so he has you know very little muscle mass and um you know this is a guy who we're actually saying look you probably we're probably gonna need you to run a little bit less and you know your running is amazing and you're very fortunate that you haven't been injured doing it we want you to keep running as long as you can but we also have to address some of these other issues because you do have some of the really common issues of runners”