Your body isn't done.
Hurt less. Get back to the things you used to do. Feel strong in your own skin again. You tell me where you want to go — I've spent 15 years getting people there.
475 pounds.
They heard it too.
Law firm partner. Plays competitive soccer on weekends. Just deadlifted 475 pounds. His teammates joke that he doesn't get hurt. He doesn't.
— Rob, 56Told me her knees didn't hurt for the first time she could remember.
— Jennifer, 50sMore muscle, more strength, and the lower back pain he'd lived with for years has settled down. He's in the best shape of his life.
— Jeff, 60sYou've started saying no.
To the pickup game. The hike your friends planned. Carrying the heavy bags in from the car. Getting down on the floor with your kids and getting back up without thinking about it. Looking in the mirror without looking away.
Somewhere along the way you started negotiating with your body before you did anything. Some of that is age. Most of it isn't.
You've tried.
The bootcamp that hurt your back. The app that gives everyone the same workout. Running until your knees complained. Physical therapy that got you out of pain — and then left you on your own. The trainer who didn't listen. Resting and waiting for it to get better on its own.
You're not lazy and you're not broken. You were handed a plan that didn't start where you actually are.
Every program has a destination. Almost none of them start from you. Mine does. Week one finds what you can do today, limitations included. Then we build.
In my teens and twenties I heard it constantly. Wait till you hit 30. Like it was a countdown. Like the body has an expiration date and the only question is how fast it falls apart.
I didn't buy it. I've had my own string of back injuries — mostly from neglecting the boring stuff — and I worked with a PT to fix what I'd been ignoring. But I never accepted that getting older meant getting weaker.
I'm in my thirties now, and I'm the strongest, leanest, and most capable I've ever been. I'm not slowing down.
That's not luck and it's not genetics. It's training, done intelligently, year after year. It's the same map I've used for 15 years with clients in their 40s, 50s, and 60s.
Maybe you heard "wait till 30." Maybe it was 40, or 50, or "at your age." Same lie.
Your body isn't done.
Everyone told me to wait till I hit 30.
Three ways to start.
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