Master Athletes Are Extending the Limits of Human Endurance In recent years,severalstudies have shownthatage groupathletes -definedas an athleteover 40 years-in the range ofenduranceandextremeendurance exercise-defined asenduranceload of6 hoursandlonger)-and more oftenstartin competitions andmuchmoreto improve their performancethan youngerathletes,
Romuald Lepers and Paul Stapley have investigated this phenomenon and have put together the results of relevant studies. The whole article can be found under https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhys.2016.00613/Full