Bobby turns 52 today.
He ties rebar 50 hours a week. 15 lbs of body fat gone in 12 weeks.
Most men would use that job as the excuse. He used it as the reason to get his food and his lifting right.
A physical job makes you tired. It doesn't make you lean.
Your body is the receipt for how you've been living.
Happy birthday brother.
#fitover40 #fitover50
@SquatUniversity Whatever the verdict on the routine, the part worth copying is that a man in his late fifties is still swinging a bell three times a week.
Most men over 40 are hunting the optimal program. Optimal is whatever you are still doing in ten years.
@GaintrustMikey Worth naming the split. On a lean lifter with a protruding gut, this is the fix.
On most men over 40 the gut is body fat, not a weak transverse, and no amount of bracing work will move it. Both are real problems. They need completely different work.
@Grind4Gainzz Dumbbells and a morning slot is the combination that survives a real schedule.
Nobody skips the 6am session because of traffic or a meeting that ran over. The evening one is the one that gets negotiated away.
@SBakerMD Learning a new sport in your fifties is the part most men write off, and it is the whole point.
Nothing keeps a body honest like being a beginner at something. Sore beats stiff.
@wellnezzCore For a man over 40 the leg session is not about size, it is about still getting off the floor at 70.
Squat, hinge, single leg, calf. The single leg one is the one everybody skips and the one that matters most later.
@CalisthenicKyle Ten hours a day in a chair shortens the front of the hip and switches the back off. That is most men over 40.
It is not weak glutes. It is hips that have not been asked to open in a decade. Fix that before you add weight to anything.
@HustlerzTrench Full body is the correct answer for anyone training three days a week, which is most men with a job.
Bro splits assume five or six sessions. Miss two and you have trained chest twice and legs never. Full body makes a missed day cost less.
Discipline is not your problem.
You have run a business, raised kids, held a job you hated for years. You are not undisciplined.
You are running a plan built for a 22 year old with no job and four spare hours.
Three days. Forty five minutes. Same lifts. For the life you have.
@yoursimmo11 Ran a lot of them too, and the honest version is that most of it was expensive urine.
The two or three with real evidence are boring and cheap. The rest was me buying the feeling of doing something while sleeping six hours a night.
@thegarybrecka The practical version for a man over 40: the strongest lever on mitochondrial density is still training. Easy aerobic work plus lifting.
Less sellable than a supplement, which is exactly why it keeps getting skipped.
@CoachDanGo Good for sleep, worth trying. Just do not let anyone sell it to you as fat loss.
And if you train after work, an empty stomach at bedtime often means a raided fridge by Thursday. Get the protein in, then close the kitchen.
@CoachWillStone Rule 1 is the one that keeps working men in the game. 10,000 came from a pedometer name, not a study, as your own thread says.
A weekly step total beats a daily one. It lets a man have a 4k Tuesday without deciding he has failed.
@sagelovebars That number is made up. The pattern is not.
What actually happens is the gym was never a habit, it was a strategy. Once it works, the strategy gets retired.
Train because you like the man it makes you, and the relationship stops being the off switch.
@KingiJosh@jayskice31317 Whichever way the public votes, the useful question for most men is not whether that rep is bad.
It is whether he can still do it in ten years. Form arguments are fun. Repeatability is what actually builds a body.
@hannahapexfit That line is the whole thing. A surgeon does not have more hours, he has fewer decisions.
The men who fail are not the busiest. They are the ones still deciding what to eat and whether to train, at the exact moment they are most tired.
@DeanTTraining A year. Not a challenge, not a shred. A year.
The part nobody wants to hear inside that photo is how many ordinary Tuesdays are in it. Credit to him for doing the boring thing 300 times.
@KarlApexFit Save this for the two weeks a year that usually end a man's training: a work trip, a sick kid, a broken routine.
That is where men over 40 lose the streak, and the streak is the whole thing. You do not need 45. You need six you will do at 6am.
@anymanfitness The part that gets me is they already knew the answer before you did.
Your kids are not listening to what you say about discipline. They are watching whether the gym closing changes anything. That is the whole argument for training at 40.
@Musclemanhh And they test it honestly. No belt, no bounce, no spotter, no ego lift.
The number a man can do today is the number. That is exactly why most men avoid finding out.
@BenjaminYeezus Fair, and the men who genuinely need a full stop are usually the ones who never take it.
The tell is whether the rest is planned or negotiated at 6pm. Planned rest is recovery. Negotiated rest is the start of a break that lasts three weeks.