Athletes Over 70

Patty Wagstaff has been flying airshows and competition aerobatics for over 40 years. Now crossing into her 70's, Patty is still flying, still teaching, and still making aviation safer.In this episode Jeff and Patty talk about risk, teaching and training, staying fit, and share a couple of seemingly crazy flying stories.Learn more about Patty and her Florida-based flight school at https://pattywagstaff.com/Learn more about Jeff and coaching at https://coachmestrong.com/And learn more about the Strength and Movement Alliance at https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/

What is the risk of riding a bike downhill at 60mph/100kph and, more importantly, are you willing to take that risk? That's the first question. The second question is what is the perceived risk of that same descent? Are you lulled into a false sense of security because you've had a successful outcome time after time?In this short walking podcast I take a look at risk vs. perceived risk and how that has changed in my life as I've aged up to my new, fancy age group: 70+.For more information on coaching check out https://coachmestrong.com/For more information on me, check out https://www.jeffreyseckendorf.com/And for more information on the Strength and Movement Alliance, https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/

I coach athletes at all levels and I've divided the constituencies into four groups: masters athletes, adults 50+, executives and other really busy people, and another group: people with Parkinson's disease.In this short podcast I take a look at the differences and similarities working on fitness with this seemingly disparate group of people who all have similar goals.For more info on coaching, check out Coach Me Strong, https://coachmestrong.com

There is health, and there is fitness. And there is some discussion that you cannot have both as you age up. In this episode Jeff talks with Marcus Riley about how both health and fitness can successfully come together as we age up and stay competitive.Check out Marcus's book, Your Aging Advantage.Check out our sponsor, the Strength and Movement Alliance.And for coaching and booking, check out Jeff's website.

What is your path to mastery? How do you sort out something new that you want to get good at? In this episode, Jeff looks at a simple, structured way to take something you've done well in the past and overlay that structure onto something new. Want to learn to row? Write a book? Jump out of an airplane? This is the episode for you.Check out Jeff's coaching services and website at https://www.jeffreyseckendorf.com/And check out our show sponsor, the Strength and Movement Alliance, at https://strengthandmovementalliance.org

We've heard it said you can be a high performing athlete into your 70's but it's not healthy or, you can be healthy into your 70's but that is not necessarily compatible with high performance. In this episode, health and wellness coach Graham Hawley looks at how to be both with proper nutrition, sleep, and training.Check out Graham's website at https://www.simplyhealthconscious.com/Contact Jeff about coaching and training at https://www.jeffreyseckendorf.com/contact/And you can find our show's sponsor, the Strength and Movement Alliance, at https://strengthandmovementalliance.org

In this conversation, Fuelin founder Scott Tindal is joined by Jeff Seckendorf, who shares about his remarkable journey of breaking four world records in ultra cycling at the age of 70. They discuss his transition to cycling and the meticulous planning and execution that led to his record-breaking achievements. Jeff emphasizes the importance of nutrition, training, and mental resilience, particularly how he overcame challenges related to overtraining and weight management.Listen to more Fuelin Sessions podcasts here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3PsMjMjt1MtZBm2URL5c8n%E2%81%A0Follow Fuelin on Instagram:  ⁠www.instagram.com/getfuelinLearn more about the Fuelin app: ⁠https://www.fuelin.com⁠

This podcast was originally published on Sports Will Save Us All, the wildly popular human interest Sports Podcast based in Arizona and hosted by Sasha Graham. In 2023, elite cyclist Jeff Seckendorf came on the show to share his quest to break the national velodrome hour record in the 70-74 age group. His goal was set, his training dialed, his eye was on the prize. But as so often happens in sports, and in life, deep into training he came to a staggering realization that lead to a massive pivot that you have to hear to believe.If you're interested in learning more about Jeff's original goal, listen to his first visit to the show in an episode that was re-released on August 10, 2025.Jeff completed his ride in support of Parkinson's Association of San Diego. If you would like to learn more or make a donation in his honor, visit Parkinson's Association of San Diego.You can find Jeff online at jeffreyseckendorf.com and Coach Me Strong

This podcast was originally published on Sasha Graham's Sports Will Save Us All podcast channel.Jeff Seckendorf doesn't seem to have met a lot of sports where he didn't excel. His experiences range from land (ice climbing) to sea (scuba diving) to air (aerobatic flying) and have culminated in his current passion, the velodrome, where he rides his fixed gear, brake-less bike really, really fast. Jeff currently holds the hour record at the San Diego Velodrome and is now training for an attempt at breaking the national hour record in the 70-74 age group in 2025. In this episode he explains the appeal of this brutal race, how he stays motivated day in and day out, and how to find the fun in the every day. If you're interested in learning more about Jeff you can find him online at jeffreyseckendorf.com. 

This episode was originally recorded for the Parkinson's Association of San Diego Podcast series.When we conceived the topic for this microcast the idea was to talk about the differences for a coach working wth older athletes and younger athletes, or older people with Parkinson's who have to exercise and younger people, with or without Parkinson's, who want to exercise. However, as the conversation developed, the apparent differences became less and less obvious. Join Coach Tracey Jacobs, a cyclist having won world and national championships, and Jeff Seckendorf, age 70, coach and world record holder on the bike and Director of Operations at the Parkinson's Association of San Diego, as they unpack this seemingly simple topic.For more information on Coach Tracey, click here: https://traceyjacobscoaching.com/For Coach Me Strong, click here: https://coachmestrong.com/The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/

Do you feel like you are in a rut with your diving? Doing the same dives over and over? How do you stay motivated year after year? These are the question we look at today in another of Jeff's soon-to-be-famous UTD Carcast episodes.For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/This was originally published as UTD Scuba Diving Podcast Episode #102.

Aging up. It's inevitable. But that does not have to stop us from diving. If you are working your way up to what we're calling Gen O/W, or Generation Older/Wiser, or you're diving with parents or grandparents or friends who have joined Gen O/W, then this episode is for you. Jeff (who is now officially Gen O/W) and Ben (who is getting closer) look at some of the options and ideas that will keep you diving well into your older years.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.This was originally published as UTD Scuba Diving Podcast Episode #46.

This is a short addendum to my previous carcast on quitting. In this quick episode I add a little info, this time about when it's okay to quit. There is a time and place for everything and sometimes the best thing is to "know when to fold 'em."For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/This was originally published as UTD Scuba Diving Podcast Episode #77.

"Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away,  know when to run." Great words to live by. In this carcast, actually recorded as a "hikecast" during this year's solar eclipse, Jeff looks at some of the mental and physical elements of quitting – quitting a class, quitting a training path, quitting anything. But, more importantly, how to avoid some of the traps of quitting and what you can learn from teetering on the edge of "quit or succeed."For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/

Back in 2020, as the Covid pandemic began, a few of us got together and started a company called Coach Me Strong, an individualized exercise coaching program for people with Parkinson's. One of the first things we said to anyone who called to learn more about Coach Me Strong was, "No matter what you previous career was, now that you are diagnosed with Parkinson's your new career is as a professional athlete."This was not meant to be off-putting but rather to impress that, with Parkinson's, exercise is not an option...the same as with any professional athlete.In this episode Sasha Graham, host of the podcast, Sports Will Save Us All, joins us to reflect on the hundreds of interviews she has done with professional and amateur athletes and coaches about the professional athlete's mindset.Check out her show, Sports Will Save Us AllAnd check out Coach Me Strong 

Jeff Seckendorf shares his experience about discovering a new sense of purpose, and how this contributes to our longevity, health, and happiness. This is seen through the lens as an hour record holder in his age group at the San Diego Velodrome and at the World 6-hour Time Trial Championships. Our guest for this Living to 100 Club Podcast is Jeff Seckendorf. At age 70, in about two years, Jeff will attempt to break a U.S. or international cycling hour record. Our guest shares with us his process-oriented training program, incorporating both mental and physical dimensions in his cycling competition. In addition, this conversation takes a close look at finding our sense of purpose, especially after a life change like retirement, separation or divorce, or other major event. We discuss the process of discovering a new purpose, especially through sports, and how finding your purpose contributes to longevity, health, and happiness. What can we learn from adopting a competitive spirit in our senior years? What is the Institute of Purpose that our guest has recently co-founded? And how do we discover a new sense of purpose in our lives?Living to 100 ClubFor more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/

"Aging up" is inevitable. Retirement may be inevitable. Many of us completely identify with our jobs and careers as our "purpose." But when that job, or career, goes away, how do you continue to find purpose in your life? In this episode  Partner in Aging's Jonathan Schwartz looks at the power and joy that comes from finding purpose at any stage in life.For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.https://partnerinaging.comThe Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/This was originally published as The Parkinson's Association of San Diego Microcast Episode #40.

Your "Path to Mastery" is a buzzword (or buzz-phrase) that's been around forever but, what does it really mean and how can you take your path to becoming great at one thing and apply it to becoming great at something else (like scuba)?In this carcast, recorded on an endless, rainy drive from San Diego to Las Vegas, I explore the path to becoming good at something, then I define a structured way to use what you know to get really good at something else.For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/This was originally published as UTD Scuba Diving Podcast Episode #69.

This podcast originally appeared on Sasha Graham's "Sports Will Save Us All" podcast.Thinking about getting into cycling — but not sure where to start?In this No Huddle Pro Tips episode of Sports Will Save Us All, Sasha Graham sits down with master cyclist and coach Jeff Seckendorf to break down the essentials of getting started with cycling the right way.From choosing the right bike and understanding why bike fit matters more than price, to finding a comfortable saddle, learning about clip-in pedals, preventing pain, fixing flats, and building confidence on the road, this conversation is packed with practical advice for beginner and returning riders alike.If you've ever had a bike collecting dust in your garage because riding felt uncomfortable — this episode is for you.Whether you're in your 40s, 50s, or beyond and looking for a fun, low-impact way to stay active, Jeff explains how the right equipment, setup, and mindset can turn cycling into something you truly love.Because sometimes the difference between quitting and joy is just a better-fitting bike.In this episode, we cover:    Why bike fit is the most important investment you can make    How to choose the right type of bike for your goals    Saddle comfort myths (and what actually works)    Clip-in pedals explained for beginners    What to carry on rides in case of a flat tire    Budgeting for cycling gear    How to make cycling fun and sustainableLearn more about Jeff at: jeffscoaching.comAbout Sports Will Save Us All podcastSports Will Save Us All is an inspirational sports podcast hosted by Sasha Graham, featuring powerful conversations with athletes, coaches, and changemakers about how sports shape mental health, resilience, leadership, and personal growth. Through real-life stories of women in sports, inclusive and adaptive athletics, and athletes overcoming adversity, the show explores how sports change lives—on and off the field.

Consistency and compliance. Or is it compliance and consistency? Either way, these are the two hallmarks of a great client relationship with their coach and coaching program.In this carcast, Jeff takes a look at how consistency and compliance inform the best possible training for scuba divers. If you are just chasing a certification card, the UTD Coaching Program may not be for you. But if your goals and desires are to become the best scuba diver you can possibly be, then have a listen and give us call.For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.More on the Scuba Coaching Programhttps://utdscubadiving.com/utd-scuba-coaching/The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/

Setback happen. This is true for everything we are learning, particularly when moving to a higher level in any field. In scuba training, in Unified Team Diving, we have a thing called the "ebay dive." This is when you come out of the water after such a frustrating dive that you want to put all your gear on ebay, sell it, and take up another sport.How we deal with the frustration of setbacks in scuba also informs how we deal with setbacks in life. In this short carcast, Jeff takes a look at the frustrations surrounding a setback and talks about how he deals with the days when everything goes sideways.For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/This was originally published as UTD Scuba Diving Podcast Episode #81.

Things don't always go quite as planned. Sometime the planning turns into a setback. What is the best way to deal with that? Take "no" for encouragement and take a setback for opportunity.For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/This was originally published as UTD Scuba Diving Podcast Episode #98.

Do you have goals?  In life? Sports? Work? In this episode Jeff Seckendorf takes a look at goals and goal setting and the process of training to reach those goals. If the point of the goal is just to get there, you run the risk of missing the most amazing parts of life. Listen to the episode, set some goals, and have some fun.Jeff is the CEO of UTD Scuba Diving and co-founder of the Institute of Purpose. He is a masters athlete preparing to attempt to set an hour record on the bike at age 70.For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/This was originally published as UTD Scuba Diving Podcast Episode #43.

Do you feel like you are good enough? That is the core of this episode. In diving, and in sports, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others and that can be a huge impediment to any successful outcome in a class or training program. The most important thing in any training situation, or in a competition, is simple: you do you.As usual, I tie diving to cycling. Regardless of whether these stories are about you, let us know if you need some guidance, some coaching, or some mentoring as you move though your career as the best scuba diving version of you.JeffFor more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/This was originally published as UTD Scuba Diving Podcast Episode #107

In the late 1970's or early 1980's I had an opportunity to take on something that looked really cool to me but my situation at the time blocked it. I've kept that dream alive until this past weekend when I fulfilled an unfulfilled dream. What are your unfulfilled dreams? What are you missed opportunities – in scuba or in life? Do you have the chance to close the loop now? In this short episode I look at how I completed something I started almost 50 years ago. No regrets, just fun. For more information and to contact Jeff, click here.The Strength and Movement Alliance is a  non-profit organization providing financial assistance, scholarships, and support for exercise, wellness, and disease-management programs for individuals in need.For the Strength and Movement Alliance, click here: https://strengthandmovementalliance.org/This was originally published as UTD Scuba Diving Podcast Episode #80.

Welcome to the "Athletes Over 70" podcast! This has been a long time coming for me and I'm grateful to have it online and see the outpouring of guests interested in being on the show. The first 20 episodes are from other various podcasts I've either hosted or been on as a guest and after that we are moving on to athletes, coaches, doctors, physical therapists, psychologists, and many others who all have an interest in making life better for athletes who are aging up (or anyone working to stay fit as they age up).The show is sponsored by the Strength and Movement Alliance, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which is raising funds to help athletes who need some financial support to join fitness programs.You can donate to the Strength and Movement Alliance or request support here. You can also contact me through the website.I look forward to seeing you for many, many episodes of "Athletes Over 79."