Slow Jogging: The Fastest Way for Runners Over 50 to Get Faster
In episode 42 of the Forever Runner Podcast, host Herb explains that for runners over 50, running getting harder is often due to poor form—especially overstriding and heel striking—not aging, and that low heart rate training feels frustrating because many people haven’t learned how to truly run slow. After a heart attack and struggling to stay under his Maffetone heart rate, Reeves discovered slow jogging (Nico Nico), an upright style with short, quick steps landing under the center of gravity. He outlines five benefits of slow jogging: improved aerobic capacity, increased fat burning, reduced injury risk, better recovery, and faster running later, sharing his own improvement of about one minute per mile in 90 days. He gives three steps to start slow jogging(run in place, target ~90 steps/min per leg, lean forward at the ankles) and describes what progress feels like over 12 weeks.
00:00 Running Over 50 Struggles
00:28 Heart Attack Wake Up Call
01:10 Overstriding Slows You Down
02:35 What Is Slow Jogging
03:44 Five Key Benefits of slow jogging
05:48 Why It Feels Wrong
06:40 Three Steps To Start slow jogging
08:02 What Progress Feels Like
09:23 Try It And Join Club
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Runners over 50: Pain free running without injury with slow running!
