Craig McBreen
@CraigMcBreen
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Strength for Life | Owner @FiftyPlusStrong | I help men over 50 get stronger, shed fat, and boost energy | Sharing all I know about fitness and aging.
Colorado
Joined March 2009
In my past life, I was a marketing consultant glued to my desk, battling a growing waistline with endless treadmill sessions. I thought cardio was the answer, but the weight always crept back, and chronic back pain derailed me. At 36-ish, I tipped the scales at just under 240
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Don't train for the beach. Train so that when you fall, you bounce back. Train so that you stay independent. Train for armor. Muscle makes you harder to break. My two cents.
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Many men over 50 waste time trying to find the perfect routine. Stop. Why? The secret to staying strong at 50+ isn’t the intensity of a single workout. It’s the refusal to miss a workout. At this stage of the game, muscle loss is the enemy. It doesn't care about your
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Stop trying to be who you were at 30. Start building who you’ll be at 70. You might think that hitting 50 is the start of the "winding down" phase. NOPE! Your 30s and 40s were likely spent grinding... Building a career, raising a family, running on stress all the freaking
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Stop treating your health like an expense. Most men over 50 tell me they are "too busy" to train. They view exercise as a cost. A tax on their time. Well... they have it backward. Resistance training isn't a drain on your schedule. IT IS... an investment in your
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Life will punch you in the mouth. ...A lot. Past 40, you know exactly what that feels like. A health scare. A divorce. A career shift. >> The realization that your body doesn’t bounce back like it used to. The temptation is to stay down. To accept that your best days
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"I'm too busy" is always just an excuse. An excuse to avoid discomfort. That's it.
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You’re over 50. You want to get fit. Strong. Lean. But eventually, you have to realize something. It’s not about getting "lean and jacked" anymore. NOPE! It is about being harder to break. That's my philosophy. Don't train for the beach. Train so that when you
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At 40, I was 240 lbs and desk-bound. To "fix" this... I obeyed the food pyramid. I lived on the treadmill. I lost weight. But I also lost muscle. It wasn't until my 50s that I stopped this pattern and started looking at the biology of aging. I realized that aging isn't
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Stop looking for the "secret" to getting fit. Sorry to tell you... there isn't one. Over 40? You don't need a biohack, a detox, or an Oura ring. People profit from making health and fitness seem overly complicated. Me?... I thrive on simplicity. My super simple playbook:
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I haven't forgotten how stupidly most of Earth's population behaved from 2020-2022, and it will forever inform how I navigate the world.
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I followed the rules and got weaker. So I broke them. As a marketing consultant, I was pushing 240 pounds. I had chronic back pain. I spent my days glued to a chair. So, I decided to fix it. How? I did exactly what the "experts" said to do. I ate low-fat "health"
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The silent thief stealing your independence. You wake up stiff. You feel tired climbing stairs. Simply bending over is a chore. You look in the mirror and wonder what happened. You tell yourself... "Well, I'm just getting old." Wrong. The villain is age-related muscle
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The "Magic Formula" is this... There is no magic formula. The fitness industry sells you complexity, quick fixes, and biohacking. If you are over 50, you don't need complexity. You need consistency. This is my ethos. – It's boring. – It's simple. – And it works.
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Aging is inevitable. Becoming useless is optional. Some might call it "aging gracefully." I call it a slow surrender. Leading your family and your business requires physical capacity. How can you lead effectively if you are exhausted by 2 pm? How can you enjoy your
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YES. YES. YES! We are made of biological material that decays. That's aging. But we have a choice. We can let gravity and time whittle us down, or we can build a defense. The defense?... GO TO THE GYM! Resistance training isn’t just about lifting weights. It's how
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YES. YES. YES! We are made of biological material that decays. That's aging. But we have a choice. We can let gravity and time whittle us down, or we can build a defense. The defense? GO TO THE GYM! Resistance training isn’t just about lifting weights. It's how you stay
It's Thursday You are made of muscle and bone and these things decay. The only defense against the entropy of time is to Train. Go and hammer the self into something that will not easily break GO TO THE GYM
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I used to be fat. Then I became obsessed with endless cardio Then I was skinny fat. It took forever, but in my 50s, I embraced resistance training. It's now my foundation, and it changed everything. Weights + protein. The magic formula.
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I’ve noticed a strange cultural narrative over the past few years. Taking care of your body is sometimes labeled as selfish, vain, or even tied to "toxic" ideologies. We’ve seen headlines framing exercise, strength training, or simply wanting to be healthy as problematic...
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