Iron Past Fifty Blog
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Training Martial Arts After 50: What Has to Change
Training after 50 isn’t about slowing down. It’s about getting smarter. When I came back to consistent training later in life, I quickly realized something: what worked in my 20s and 30s no longer applied the same way. You can still train hard, but you can’t train carelessly. Recovery becomes the first priority. In earlier…
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My First Exposure to Martial Arts in the 1960s
The Recess Story I was a 6-year-old kid in school when a classmate told me his brother could beat up my father because he was a black belt. I remember asking, “What’s a black belt?” That simple question marked my first conscious exposure to martial arts and planted a seed that would grow over decades.…
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