If your workouts stopped working, it’s probably not effort. It’s that you’ve been training in one gear. This Straight Sets episode breaks down block training, the simple way men over 40 rotate focus so nothing fades in a corner they forgot about.

In this episode:

•    Why the disciplined guy and the restless guy make the same mistake

•    The three qualities every man over 40 has to train

•    The one that fades first after 40 (it isn’t strength)

•    How to run endurance, size, and strength in blocks

•    Where explosive power work fits without taking over

•    The one change to make this week, no new program required

Find the show at againstthefade.com. Against the Fade. Don’t fade.

Chapters

0:00 Open

0:57 Two Men, Same Trap

1:55 Three Ways to Load a Muscle

2:48 The Myth of Three Sealed Boxes

3:41 What Fades First

4:33 Why Power Leaves First

5:57 One Gear Can’t Defend the System

6:57 The Framework: Train in Blocks

7:28 Which Order to Run

8:32 Where Power Fits: Foundation, Then Flash

9:13 The Six Patterns Stay the Same

9:34 Block Length and the Down Week

10:21 Your Move This Week

10:49 Discipline, Pointed at the Whole System

11:16 Close

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