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“Should I incorporate Swings on my ‘OFF’ days”?

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“Rebuilt After 40”: https://go.chasingstrength.com/rebuilt-after-40/ Learn and Master Your SINGLE Kettlebell Technique: https://salutis.kartra.com/page/BIG-6-w-bonus Learn and Master Your DOUBLE Kettlebell Technique: h ttps://cart.chasingstrength.com/strong4 Should you add kettlebell Swings on your off days? For most guys over 40, my answer is: Probably not. A Rebuilt After 40 customer recently asked me if he should add Swings on his off days. And the first thing I told him was this: “It’s not how much work you can do. It’s how much work you can recover from.” That’s the part a lot of guys miss. There’s a natural tendency to think: More work = faster results. But for guys in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, that’s usually not how it works. If anything, piling more work on top of an already solid program can eventually push you into an over-reached state where you don’t even feel like training anymore. If you absolutely feel like you need to train every day, one option is to take a 3-day-per-we...
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Should you STOP your conditioning work?

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How to Use The “Light-Heavy” System with Kettlebells to INCREASE Your Strength AND Conditioning at the SAME Time 👉 https://go.chasingstrength.com/kettlebell-maximorum-e/ Should you stop doing conditioning work with kettlebells? Maybe — especially if your conditioning has stalled and you’re still not getting stronger. A lot of guys fall into what I call the “huffy-puffy-sweaty” trap. Every workout gets judged by: How much you sweat. How out of breath you get. How exhausted you feel afterward. And yes, that can improve conditioning. But there’s a problem: You can get conditioned without ever getting strong enough. I recently got a question from a guy who had already done around 70 workouts and was trying to move from a pair of 16kg kettlebells to a pair of 20kg kettlebells. My recommendation? Start training for maximum strength. And stop trying to solve the problem by doing even more  conditioning. Maximum Strength is the “mother of all strength qualities.” Strength coach Charles St...
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The #1 Most IMPORTANT Training Goal for Guys Over 40?

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Swing "Only": 👉 h ttps://salutis.kartra.com/page/SWING-HARD- 2 Clean + Press / Push Press (Concurrent strength + power): 👉 https://salutis.kartra.com/page/giant-x Snatch "Only": 👉 https://cart.chasingstrength.com/ksk4 What’s the #1 training goal for men over 40 — VO2max, strength, or power? A lot of people online will tell you VO2max is the number one indicator of longevity. I draw a firm line at a hard: Maybe. VO2max clearly matters. But if you want to do more work in less time — or the same amount of work more efficiently — you need the ability to produce force quickly.  That’s power. Power = Work / Time. And that’s the P in the RSMP Method — POWER. Recent research from the CLINIMEX cohort followed nearly 4,000 adults between 46 and 75 for almost 11 years. One of the most interesting findings? Men with the lowest muscle power relative to bodyweight were 5.88 times more likely to die than the men with the highest. When researchers looked at grip strength in the ...
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The TRUTH About Getting Stronger Over 40… 50… 60… and beyond?

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Kettlebell MAXIMORUM: https://go.chasingstrength.com/kettlebell-maximorum-e / Research: 1- Guys in their 60s and early 70s MORE THAN DOUBLED their leg strength in just 12 weeks. Men between 60 and 72 increased one measure of leg strength by 107%... and another by a whopping 227%.  And it wasn’t just some fancy testing trick. They actually built muscle, too. In their 60s. And 70s. In only 12 weeks. (Frontera et al., 1988, Journal of Applied Physiology.) 2- And this wasn’t some one-off fluke. Researchers looked at 47 different studies involving 1,079 adults over 50. On average, resistance training increased strength by roughly 25–33%. But here’s the part I really like... Getting older didn’t make people less capable of getting stronger. In other words, your body doesn’t suddenly lose its ability to respond to strength training just because you’ve got a few more candles on the birthday cake. (Peterson et al., 2010, Ageing Research Reviews.) 3- You can still build muscle AND strength w...
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The TOP 2 Ways for Men Over 40 to Build Muscle Quickly

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If you want to build high-quality, usable muscle, then I built this program specifically for guys over 40. Check it out here. https://go.chasingstrength.com/rebuilt-after-40/ And if you want to build up to a pound of muscle a week using a pair of kettlebells in as little as an hour a week? You’ll want to use this one. https://kettlebellmuscle.com Every man over 40 should be focused on building and maintaining muscle. But what’s the best way to do it? In this video, I break down the 2 main types of muscle growth and explain which one I think is more useful for guys our age. This is the “M” in the RSMP Method — MUSCLE. As we get older, muscle becomes increasingly important. Your fast-twitch muscle fibers are the ones responsible for producing high levels of force. They help you: Lift more weight. Move faster. Jump higher. And as you age, they also play an important role in helping you stay capable, strong, and harder to knock off balance. I also like to think of muscle as your metabolic ...
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Why Most Old Men CRUMPLE like Paper Bags… 🙁

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If you're new to kettlebell training, use this program here. It tackles your technique, your neural strength training, and your structural / functional strength training. https://salutis.kartra.com/page/BIG-6-w-bonus And if you want to fast track your results by using a pair of kettlebells, use this program to train your technique, your neural strength, and your structural / functional strength. https://cart.chasingstrength.com/strong4 Why do so many men get weaker as they get older — and what’s the best way to get strong after 40 without spending 1–2 hours a day working out? That’s what I’m breaking down in this video. When I was a young trainer and coach, I saw “senior training” marketed constantly. Chair curls. 3–5 lb dumbbells. Stability balls. That’s not strength training. That’s babysitting. And that’s exactly why the S in the RSMP Method stands for STRENGTH. For men over 40, strength needs to stay a priority. Current research keeps pointing to grip strength and leg strength ...
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“Locked out” of your own body…?

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Test this out for yourself - watch the demo video with Fabio and do the drills as he does them at the link below.  👉 https://go.chasingstrength.com/sore-joint-solution-e/ Feel like your shoulder, lower back, or hamstrings are “locked up” no matter how much you stretch, foam roll, or train? That’s the problem I’m breaking down in this video. You can keep pressing. Keep swinging. Keep stretching. Keep doing mobility drills. And still feel like your body won’t give you access to the range of motion — or the muscle — you’re trying to use. Here’s the big idea: You cannot make a muscle stronger if you can’t get to it. And you can’t grow it very well either. If a joint won’t move through its full range, your body finds another way to get the job done. You compensate. You work around the restriction. And after enough years, that workaround starts to feel “normal.” I know because I spent years doing exactly what the fitness industry told me to do. Stretching. Foam rolling. Corrective exerc...
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