Stop Doing The Same Workouts In Your 40’s

The workouts that got you fit in your 20s and early 30s might be the worst way to stay fit in your 40s and 50s.

Hear me out…

I went years and years in my 20s without exercising for a single minute.

It was a sad showing, and I had the extra 40lbs on my frame to prove it.

I went years and years in my 30s doing CrossFit five days a week.

It was a lot, and I had the sore back and a skinny-fat physique to match.

Now that I’m in my 40s, neither one of those extremes is the best option for me.

When I was overweight and sedentary, I was on the express train to chronic disease.

Thank goodness Blakley snapped me out of that.

And doing high-intensity workouts that left me lying on the floor panting five days a week wasn’t giving me the physical results I wanted, and it was becoming too much to recover from.

I was always dealing with nagging aches and pains, and I never really looked more muscular.

I think a lot of people still believe that for a workout to be “good,” it has to leave you feeling destroyed—and it definitely has to burn a crapload of calories according to your activity tracker.

Heck, I believed it too.

But it’s just not true.

A “good” workout program is one that you:

1: Enjoy
2: Can recover from
3: Has a low risk of injury
4: Improves your heart health (#cardio)
5: Makes you stronger
6: Builds muscle

None of those require you to feel smashed at the end.

Don’t get me wrong. We preach the importance of bringing intensity to your workouts all the time.

But now I understand that the workouts that got me fit then aren’t what I should be doing to stay fit now.

I don’t need to crush myself every day.

I need more balance, and maybe you do too.

The Digital Barbell approach pulls the best from strength training, hypertrophy (muscle building), and CrossFit.

Program-writer extraordinaire Blakley puts them in the DB blender in just the right doses.

Out pops a program that keeps us—and our clients—fit, strong, capable, healthy, and athletic-looking.

We’re in this for the long haul, and we hope you are too.

If what worked for you 5, 10, or 15 years ago isn’t working anymore, it might be time for a change.

All the best,

Jonathan