Against the Fade

Dr. Jim Beckwith has heard "Doc, I'm getting old" from the exam chair for 35 years. He is also the one doctor who can see your blood vessels without cutting you open. And he has a new book out Positively Not Old: Mindset and Longevity Habits for Aging ...

Tony Medrano did his first Ironman at 48, six weeks after a car left him with one working arm. At 55 he says he is in the best shape of his life. He runs an AI and peptide company, so in this conversation we sort what actually moves the needle in midli...

Michael Bovarnick was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer at 59. He went twenty years cancer free. Then it came back, and this time it had spread. In this episode you will learn what a PSA number actually means and what makes one a problem, why s...

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 th...

Every month brings a new diet and a new wall of supplements. For a midlife man who just wants to feel good and stay strong, the noise is deafening. Meridan Zerner has spent 30 years cutting through it. A registered dietitian, sports nutrition specialis...

Every month brings a new diet and a new wall of supplements. For a midlife man who just wants to feel good and stay strong, the noise is deafening. Meridan Zerner has spent 30 years cutting through it. A registered dietitian, sports nutrition specialist, and 25-year veteran of Dallas’s Cooper Clinic, she joins us to aim that experience straight at the midlife man and give him an honest place to st...

You have seen the video. The one exercise everybody should be doing, the move you are secretly missing. We all feel that pull. Here is the truth underneath it: the thing you are missing is almost never an exercise. It is a pattern. In this Straight Set...

You have seen the video. The one exercise everybody should be doing, the move you are secretly missing. We all feel that pull. Here is the truth underneath it: the thing you are missing is almost never an exercise. It is a pattern. In this Straight Set you will learn: The six movement patterns that cover everything your body has to do to stay strong and independent in midlife: squat, hinge, lunge,...

Show Notes Most of us in midlife reach for the fix last and sacrifice sleep first. Dr. Kirk Parsley spent a career proving we have it backwards. Kirk earned his trident as a Navy SEAL at 19, left the teams, and came back years later as their doctor. Wh...

Show Notes Most of us in midlife reach for the fix last and sacrifice sleep first. Dr. Kirk Parsley spent a career proving we have it backwards. Kirk earned his trident as a Navy SEAL at 19, left the teams, and came back years later as their doctor. What he found treating the fittest men on the planet is that almost everything they complained about, the fog, the short fuse, the body that would not...

You learned how to be a man by watching one, and quietly copying him. Somewhere along the line the camera turned around. Now we’re the men younger guys are watching, whether we signed up for it or not. This solo episode makes the case that the work we ...

You learned how to be a man by watching one, and quietly copying him. Somewhere along the line the camera turned around. Now we’re the men younger guys are watching, whether we signed up for it or not. This solo episode makes the case that the work we do in midlife on our health, our marriages, and our character never stays private, and that we’re all setting a standard for the men coming up behin...

Most of us are waiting for permission. To relax, to take the risk, to finally live the life we keep telling ourselves we’ll get to once we retire, once the kids are grown, once we hit the number. Tripp Lanier calls it the finish line that keeps moving,...

Most of us are waiting for permission. To relax, to take the risk, to finally live the life we keep telling ourselves we’ll get to once we retire, once the kids are grown, once we hit the number. Tripp Lanier calls it the finish line that keeps moving, and he’s spent more than twenty years coaching men who crossed it and found new problems waiting on the other side. Tripp is a men’s coach, host of...

If you're over 40 and you've been told to just eat "enough" protein, you've been told the wrong thing. The number is higher than you think, and the rules changed when you crossed 40. In this Straight Sets episode, I break down what protein actually doe...

If you're over 40 and you've been told to just eat "enough" protein, you've been told the wrong thing. The number is higher than you think, and the rules changed when you crossed 40. In this Straight Sets episode, I break down what protein actually does, why anabolic resistance changes the game after 40, and the daily protein targets most middle-aged men are missing. You&a...

It's easy to cut corners on the warm-up. We tell ourselves a few leg swings is enough, or we get sucked into the 30-minute Instagram mobility routine that eats half our gym time. Neither one is right. In this episode of Straight Sets, I break down what...

It's easy to cut corners on the warm-up. We tell ourselves a few leg swings is enough, or we get sucked into the 30-minute Instagram mobility routine that eats half our gym time. Neither one is right.    In this episode of Straight Sets, I break down what a warm-up actually does in your body, what changes after 40 that makes it matter more, where the influencers and conventional wisdom get it...

At almost 40, as a civilian, Michael Ostrolenk completed Kokoro Camp. A 50-hour event modeled on Navy SEAL Hell Week. Most men half his age don’t finish it. But the lesson he took away wasn’t about toughness. It was about something underneath toughness...

At almost 40, as a civilian, Michael Ostrolenk completed Kokoro Camp. A 50-hour event modeled on Navy SEAL Hell Week. Most men half his age don’t finish it. But the lesson he took away wasn’t about toughness. It was about something underneath toughness that most men in midlife have never been taught to look at. In this episode, I sit down with Michael, a licensed therapist and former master coach...

Jason Lange has spent years in the trenches of men's work, building communities where men actually show up for each other. He's the founder of Evolutionary Men, a men's embodiment coach, certified No More Mr. Nice Guy coach, and his core belief is that...

Jason Lange has spent years in the trenches of men's work, building communities where men actually show up for each other. He's the founder of Evolutionary Men, a men's embodiment coach, certified No More Mr. Nice Guy coach, and his core belief is that every man should be in a men's group. In this conversation, we dig into the social valley that most men in midlife don't e...

Your body doesn't recover the same way after 40. Testosterone drops. Growth hormone declines. Your recovery window stretches. And most men have no idea it's happening. This is the first episode of Straight Sets, a new series where we cut the noise and ...

Your body doesn't recover the same way after 40. Testosterone drops. Growth hormone declines. Your recovery window stretches. And most men have no idea it's happening. This is the first episode of Straight Sets, a new series where we cut the noise and give you what actually works. One topic, shorter format, something you can use this week. Today I break down what changes in your body aft...

When was the last time you did something you'd never done before? In this episode, Jonathan digs into what writer Christine Rosen calls the extinction of experience, the slow disappearance of direct, firsthand experience from modern life, and why it hi...