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You Can Be Old and Able to Move or Old and Unable to Move - Decide Today Reclaiming your flexibility and mobility after 50 isn't just a luxury—it's a necessity for a vibrant and active life in future decades. While strength training and cardiovascular health are equally important to your longevity, you will feel your age with every movement you make if you ignore your muscular flexibility and joint mobility. Creating the double mobility day per week in the new Ageless Athlete - Fitness Over 50 will help you learn how to program it properly and most importantly - consistently. ...

Many Are "Interested in Special Ops" But Few Want to Work Hard to Get There... Many fail to understand the level of preparation required. It is not just the fitness test, it is a lifetime of hard work in school. sports, and tedious jobs to earn some spending money or help your family with bills. Team work, building resilience / mental toughness, and creating a never quit mentality IS all part of the type of life long preparation needed to succeed in ANYTHING you are interested in doing. If you are interested - WHY are you interested? Do you have a...

Age is inevitable, but growing old is a choice.” (Joseph Rain). You have a choice: Get strong and remain strong as you age, or grow old and be weak. If we are lucky, we will age fully to what our genetics and life decide. However, how you want to live when you are older will be up to you and how you live today. One of my favorite aging quotes helps with maintaining a positive attitude: “Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.” Another aging quote is from Socrates: "It is a shame for a...

You Need to Enjoy What You Do to be Consistent Throughout life, we can all recall times and goals that required being consistent to finish. Graduating high school, finishing a losing sports season, doing a job to make ends meet, or other activities that had an end result. Face it, for many just finishing these foundational events were the best days. You found a way to tough it out even though you did not thoroughly enjoy it and you finished regardless. While you may have hated some of your history, it is what makes you tougher today. Fast forward to...

New Winter Lift with PST Prep /Test Week Block Periodization  Increase Strength & Crush the PST / PAST3 Weeks Strength - 1 Week PT / Cardio Focus (16 weeks) Typically, the Fall / Winter lift cycle is a reduced number of calisthenics, added weight lifting, weight vests, and other devices to make calisthenics harder combined with reduced running distance each week.  This has had a recovery and therapeutic effect on our training group's joints, feet, shins, and other areas where high miles and high repetitions can show overuse pain. That is one reason why we shift cycles.  The main reason is...