Build a stronger body
Five things decide what your body can do, and they are the same five whether you want to be stronger, fitter or leaner. Only the emphasis changes.
01
Strength
Two sessions a week, close to hard, adding a little over time. Strength is the one quality that protects everything else about a body as it ages.
02
Cardiovascular fitness
How much work your heart and lungs can sustain. It is the single strongest predictor of how long you live, and it improves faster than almost anybody expects.
03
Nutrition
Enough protein to build with and enough food to train on. Under-eating is the most common reason a training plan stops producing anything.
04
Recovery
You do not grow during the session, you grow after it. Sleep and rest days are not the reward for training, they are the part where the training becomes something.
05
Body composition
What you are made of matters more than what you weigh. Waist and strength together tell you more about a change than the scale ever will.
Want to know where you stand?
Reading is one half. The other is a number you took yourself, and one measurement today is the start of a line you can actually follow.
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