Sprinting helps keep your muscles fast and powerful as you age by improving how your brain talks to your muscles.

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Three-week sprint interval training (SIT) reduces cell-free DNA and low-frequency fatigue but does not induce VO2max improvement in older men

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2024 Apr

The study found that older men who did sprint training recovered faster from muscle fatigue, which suggests their nerves and muscles worked better together after training—this supports the idea that sprinting helps fight age-related slowness.

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