John Loschiavo

Build a health system that survives Thursday—so the second half stays strong and independent, not a slow drift. Take the 5-minute Stress Test ↓

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

If your health plan only works in a good week, it isn’t finished.

The Midlife Health Reset is a 60-minute working session to turn your real week into a 14-day plan with bad-week backups and a restart rule.

AUD $250. Book here:
https://t.co/O8X2TPG55V

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Not thinking about it is the whole point.

Carrying the shopping in. Getting off the floor. Standing at a bench long enough to cook a proper dinner. None of that should cost you a thought at seventy.

That's the return, and it looks like nothing.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

@Jay_gabani_ Total calories? Aim for about 160g protein per day. Measure weight daily and waist weekly. Give it 4 weeks before changing anything. It does take time and it sucks it doesn't happen overnight. It's not shitty genetics, just time.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Pick one ordinary job you do most weeks. Then four questions answered honestly:

Do I do it less often?
Does it take longer?
Have I handed it off, or started paying for it?
Have I changed how I do it without ever deciding to?

Every yes is room closing.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

The shopping weighs what it always weighed.

The front steps are the same height they were in 1994. The pot is the same pot and the drawer is the same drawer.

You're the only thing in that sum that moves, which is why nothing warns you. Nobody measures effort.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Two people turn seventy the same week. One carries the shopping in from the car in one trip and spends Saturday in the garden. The other needs a hand to get dressed.

We explain that with age, and they are the same age.

What differs is how much room each has left.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Are you in your 40s or 50s?

I’m speaking with people about how they look after their health around work, family and normal busy weeks.

I’d love to hear what you’ve tried, what gets in the way and what you wish was easier.

20 mins, no sales. DM me if you’re up for it.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Nobody notices their capacity going. There's no reading for it and nobody asks.

What people do notice, and never write down anywhere, is how often they need a sit-down halfway through the job.

That's the measurement. It just isn't kept.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

An older woman I know of fractured a bone in her back putting a kitchen drawer back on its runners.

Baking trays. An ordinary lift on an ordinary afternoon.

The drawer didn't get heavier. She reached the day where it was more than she had, with no warning.

New Field Note ↓

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Two people the same age can be nothing alike. What separates them isn’t the years. It’s how much room they’ve got left. https://t.co/YoBPMMkSWl

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Two people the same age can be nothing alike. What separates them isn’t the years. It’s how much room they’ve got left. https://t.co/YoBPMMkSWl

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

I care less about keeping the same gym numbers forever than about keeping ordinary life ordinary.

I want to carry something awkward, get off the ground, or spend a long day on my feet without needing to ration the rest of the day.

That is what I want the training to buy.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Pick the thing you want to still be doing in twenty years. Write its job description.

1. What do you get down to, and back up from, and how many times
2. What do you carry, how far, over what ground
3. What position do you hold, and for how long
4. How long does it run, and what does tomorrow cost

Four lines. That is the plan.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

3 weeks of bedrest had a more profound impact on physical function than ~30 years of aging.

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

Most people over 40 are training for the wrong future.

They’re training to look fit. Nothing wrong with that … but my decades in the office have taught me important lessons here.

I’d rather train to remain capable.

Your fitness should expand your life, not become your life.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Followed through a hospital stay, the patients who came in stronger lost more strength, not less.

Sounds like an argument against being strong.

You can only lose what you had. Losing more from higher up still leaves you higher up.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Resilience: how fast you come back.

Reserve: how far you were from the floor when it happened.

One is mostly luck. The other is a decision you made five years earlier on an ordinary Tuesday.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

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[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Six thousand men had their grip strength measured between forty-five and sixty-eight, then were followed for twenty-five years.

The weakest third ended up around three times more likely to be unable to rise from a chair unaided.

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

When did you last do something that pushed you close to your actual limit?

[John Loschiavo @midlifesystems]

Nothing in your life will prompt you to do this.

There is no appointment for it. No test comes back saying you have three good decades left if you start now.

The work with the highest return in midlife is the work nobody will ever ask you to do.