17/10/2025
If your coach is doing any of these, RUN! 👟💨🚩
Training over 35 is different. Your joints don’t bounce back like they used to, your hormones have shifted and what worked in your 20s doesn’t work now.
Cookie-cutter programs designed for younger lifters will break you down, not build you up.
HERE ARE THE RED FLAGS THAT SHOULD SEND YOU RUNNING:
🚩 They throw you straight under a barbell without assessing your movement quality, building joint resilience or addressing imbalances FIRST. That’s how you end up with a herniated disc, not a PR.
🚩 They have you eating like a teenage girl with extreme deficits and zero carbs because “that’s what works.” Yeah, for losing muscle, tanking your energy, and rebounding harder than you started.
🚩 Their only transformations are of themselves. If they can’t show you results from clients who look like YOU - same age, same life stage, same challenges - they’re guessing with your body.
🚩 They promise dramatic results in 4 weeks. Real body composition changes take months, not weeks. Anyone promising rapid transformations is either lying or setting you up for an unsustainable crash that you’ll rebound from hard.
A good coach for your age doesn’t just know training and nutrition. They understand recovery capacity, life stress, sleep debt and how to program around a 40+ hour work week and actual responsibilities.
If you’re tired of programs that don’t account for what training over 35 actually requires, let’s talk.
DM ME “REDFLAGS” AND I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT AGE-APPROPRIATE, SUSTAINABLE TRAINING ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE.