#89 Art Muir: Aging Gracefully & Athletic Longevity As A Mountain Athlete

Join Evoke coach Seth Keena for a conversation with Art Muir. Art, at 78 years old, is an anomaly in the mountaineering world – having summited Mt. Everest at 75 years old along with tackling many other difficult mountain objectives around the globe. Learn about Art’s training, his quest for the Seven-Summits, and he and Seth’s approach to training and personal development through their six-year athlete-coach training relationship.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
5:22 Art and Seth’s athlete/coach relationship
10:10 Art’s beginnings of learning to train
13:26 Learning to train for mountain objectives
16:25 Art’s first ambitions to climb Mt. Everest
21:42 Does my fitness trajectory match my goals?
25:40 Continuity vs. variability in training
30:50 Respecting day-to-day energy availability for training
34:06 All training is exercise, but not all exercise is training
36:50 Athletic training and longevity
45:27 Short-term and long-term planning of training
46:31 Don’t get too fixated on training metrics.
48:31 Incremental increasing of aerobic threshold
55:49 Training and goals when life-chapters change
58:32 Art’s Social Media project
1:03:33 Climbing Mt. Everest and visiting the South Pole at 75+ years old
1:08:02 Technical skills in the mountains
1:10:49 Guide Wisdom and Principles of Life
1:15:01 Balancing training with life obligations
1:16:50 A short talk of Art’s climbing resume and future goals