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Built for a real week.

Strength and muscle after 40 for men who carry a lot. The plan I give the men I coach: three sessions a week, forty-five minutes each, with a bad-week version for when the week falls apart and a travel version for a hotel gym. Every rule comes with the reason, checked against the research and drawn so it makes sense.

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Built for a Real Week: Strength and Muscle After 40 for Men Who Carry a Lot, by Don Wilder
Inside

Ten chapters. One plan you can keep.

  1. Most men don't quit. They drift.Why plans fail, and why it isn't you.
  2. What changes after 35And what doesn't: your muscle still answers.
  3. Three days, forty-five minutesThe split that survives your busiest month.
  4. Hard sets, not long sessionsTwo or three hard sets, a couple of reps short.
  5. The bad-week versionTwo sessions, thirty minutes, keep the weight.
  6. The travel versionOne dumbbell, three lifts, and food on the road.
  7. Protein firstThen the food you like. A real day of meals.
  8. Sleep and testosteroneHow it works and what moves it. No pills.
  9. The first 90 daysMonth by month, past week three.
  10. The long gameTrain like you'll still be doing it at fifty.

Plus the whole plan on two pages and a log sheet. Want just the plan? Print it here, no email needed.

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