Fitness in Young Men

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Five health checks worth doing before you turn 30

Your twenties are the cheapest decade of your life to find a problem, and most of what's worth checking fits in one blood draw and a thirty dollar cuff.

GuidePlayMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

Your first beer league season at forty-five

What it costs, what hurts, which division to pick, and why skating badly is the only problem you actually have to fix.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

How to keep training when you've got 40 minutes and two kids

Three short sessions a week, five movements, and a deload you didn't plan. The program that survives a sick toddler is the one that works.

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What goes wrong in your thirties doesn't hurt yet

The things that take men out at fifty-five start quietly at thirty-four, and most of them are fixable in about three hours a week.

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GuidePlayMarcus Vale22 Sept 20266 min

Start the weekly game yourself, because nobody else will

Pick a day, book the court, send one message. The hard part isn't fitness — it's being the person who keeps a game alive past week six.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Heart rate zones without a coach, a lab or a guess

Your watch invented your max heart rate. Here's how to build zones you can actually trust with four hours a week and two kids at home.

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Training in your fifties without wrecking your week

Strength doesn't fall off a cliff at 50. Recovery does. Change those two things in your program and keep almost everything else.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuidePlayCal Brennan22 Sept 20265 min

Going back to your old sport at forty without tearing anything

Your lungs come back in three weeks. Your tendons take three months. Most comeback injuries happen in the gap between the two.

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Eating out three times a week without wrecking the other four

Order the protein first, build backward, and stop treating Tuesday's drive-thru like a moral event. A working parent's playbook for restaurant food.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Who multivitamins actually help and who's wasting the money

Four groups get real benefit from a daily multi. Most people are buying insurance against a risk they don't have.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Forgetting Names at Fifty and When to Get It Checked

Most name-blanking at fifty is retrieval, not loss. But a few patterns are worth an appointment, and a few fixable things look exactly like memory trouble.

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