Mid Life Athlete
Mid Life Athlete
Latest Episodes
S5E10: Everything you want to know about back pain
Greg and Jason sat down with Dr Thomas Dekkers, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist at Cork University Hospital to talk all things back pain. Thomas is a Spinal Specialist Physiotherapist; a researcher in Back Pain and Educator on 'The Reh...
S5E9 Pain & Injury Pt 3: Rehab — Progression, Not Perfection
Why does the pain go away before you're actually fixed? In the final part of our pain series, Greg and I get into what rehab really looks like once the diagnosis is right — from why "this exercise works your glutes" is nonsense (your brain runs...
S5E8: Riding Through the Fog: Grief, Agency, and the 321 Mont Blanc Challenge
In this deeply personal and moving episode of the Midlife Athlete Podcast, host Greg Ryan sits down with his regular co-host, Jason Smith, who steps into the guest seat to share the motivation behind his upcoming endurance challenge. T...
S5E7: Pain and Injury pt 2
Jason taps into Greg's expertise and chats about pain and injury. In this part 2 goes deeper into why injuries happen to one side, one tissue, one person — and what that means for recovery. Together they reframe how a midlife athlete thinks abo...