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§ 03 · Long game
A guided journey

Get Fit at 40+.

Strength, energy, longevity. The training your 40s actually need.

Length
About 12 weeks
Modules
7 · 42m
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7 modules · arc reads left → right
  1. The arc
  2. 01Your body has changed←
  3. 02Strength is the foundation
  4. 03Protein, sleep, recovery
  5. 04Cardio that works
  6. 05Mobility and injury prevention
  7. 06When something hurts
  8. 07The 12-week plan

Your body has changed. The training that worked at 25 doesn't work at 45. Strength as the foundation, not cardio. Protein, sleep and recovery as the bottleneck. Zone 2 and VO2 max as the metrics that actually predict longevity. A simple twelve-week plan you can repeat for years.

Begin →
§ 01What you'll learn
  1. 01Why what worked at 25 doesn't work at 45
  2. 02The training split that beats most things at this age
  3. 03How much protein, how much sleep, how much recovery
  4. 04Why strength training matters more than cardio at 40+
  5. 05VO2 max, mobility, and the metrics that actually predict longevity
  6. 06How to come back from an injury without restarting
§ 02Who it's for
  1. 01Mid-30s to mid-50s, want to be in better shape than they are
  2. 02Used to train, fell off, ready to start again
  3. 03Already training but not getting the results they used to
§ 03 - The modules

7 sessions, in order.

Begin
  1. 01

    Your body has changed

    What's different at 40 versus 25. Hormones, sarcopenia, recovery. Read the new manual before you fight the new machine.

    5 min→
  2. 02

    Strength is the foundation

    Why heavy lifting beats running at 40+. Four lifts, two sessions a week, form over ego, for the next forty years.

    7 min→
  3. 03

    Protein, sleep, recovery

    How much protein. Why sleep is a training input. Why recovery is the bottleneck. The boring inputs that compound.

    6 min→
  4. 04

    Cardio that works

    Zone 2 and intervals. VO2 max as the metric that matters most for longevity. Easy days easy, hard days hard.

    6 min→
  5. 05

    Mobility and injury prevention

    Hips, shoulders, lower back. The 10 daily minutes that prevent the 6 months out. The cheapest insurance you'll ever buy.

    5 min→
  6. 06

    When something hurts

    Knee, lower back, shoulder, hip. When to push through, when to deload, when to see someone. The most-asked question of men starting again at 40+.

    7 min→
  7. 07

    The 12-week plan

    A simple, repeatable training week. Two strength sessions, intervals, Zone 2. Progress, deload, test, repeat for the next ten years.

    6 min→