Muscular endurance, training, and growing old

I still work out religiously. I still log long workouts. I still obsess over Steve House's training advice for climbers on his site Uphill Athlete. All this is to say that I still consider myself an athlete, and by extension I am not an old fart, but rather, a middle-age strapping buck.

However, wandering down into my basement to watch the news, or more likely to watch Stage 1 of the Tour du Ski, I came across my daughter during her strength workout. This was her last such workout before the upcoming national championships. As she reeled off sets of clapping pushups, and explosive jumps, and core exercises ... I realized that if truth be told, I actually am an old fart.