19/06/2026
One of the most damaging trends in fitness content right now is the idea that as you get older, you should do less — stop sprinting, avoid heavy lifting, skip the hard workouts. It sounds like caution. It’s actually the opposite of helpful.
Removing intensity from your training as you age is a path to deconditioning. It’s a path toward depending on other people for the things you currently do yourself. Squatting, deadlifting, sprinting, doing hard workouts — these are not things to phase out. They’re things to scale intelligently and keep doing. The weights come down. The mechanics stay sound. The intensity stays.
Because if you can’t sprint in training, you can’t sprint in life. And life will ask you to sprint — chasing a kid, hiking with a pack, playing a pickup game, handling an emergency. The training exists to make sure you’re ready when it does.
Read the full article, "Why Intensity Is the One Thing You Can't Train Around," on CrossFit.com. ➡️ https://www.crossfit.com/essentials/crossfit-intensity-cant-train-around
