Article Source: CNN

Written by - Madison Park - July 16th, 2009

(CNN) -- Aging athletes don't have the agility they had in their youth. Minor injuries accumulate and become major ones. And by the time they hit their mid-30s and 40s, they're considered geriatric -- that's the conventional wisdom.

But recently, middle-aged athletes have defied the tolls of aging, returning to competition and whizzing past their junior rivals. "Forties is the new 30s for physiological capacity," said Scott Trappe, director of the Human Performance Lab at Ball State University. "We're going to continue to see people do well into their 40s -- no question."

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