YOU’LL ONLY IMPROVE FROM WHAT YOU CAN RECOVER FROM

When you train in the gym (properly train in the gym) you cause actual microscopic damage to the muscle fibres. You literally cause tiny fibre breakages within the trained muscle group.

It’s this trauma that triggers a cascade of physiological processes to repair your muscle fibres. Not just repair them back to their original state but to repair them stronger and larger in size!

When you’re in the gym training you are not growing – quite the opposite in fact. You are breaking down and stressing the body. It’s the time away from the gym when you are resting that your body is able to undergo the repair/growth processes. This is when it gets to perform these processes fully, to in turn, get you closer to your physique goals.

Number 1 Rule - If you don’t recover you don’t change.

WHY IS THIS A COMPLICATION FOR OVER 35

No matter what age you are, these recovery and repair processes are essential. Unfortunately, due to decreases in anabolic hormone levels and cell recovery rates, as well as natural ageing orthopaedic considerations, this happens at a decreased rate - despite guys over 35 following the exact same recovery processes.

This means increased recovery times and an adoption of practices that enhance and support recovery processes, need to be carefully and cleverly considered.

Ignore this knowledge and continue to train like you’re in your 20’s and you’ll end up regressing sooner rather than later.

HOW WE ENHANCE RECOVERY FOR OUR CLIENTS

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Intelligent Training

Training is key to triggering the physiological processes responsible for your body to develop lean muscle tissue, to use fat as fuel and structurally change in composition. Once past the age of 35 it becomes a carefully orchestrated balancing act of ensuring enough physique changing stimulus is generated (from your training) and enough recovery time is included for the body to undergo the recovery and repair processes. The approach of ‘More Is Better’ (in regards to training) is a long walk off a short plank for us now. However, we still want results and we want them in the fastest way scientifically possible - right? This is where we use our years of experience to create intelligent training splits, management of training stimulus, balancing of training volume and intensity, and the cycling of growth mechanisms and techniques to ensure our clients are responding in the fastest manner possible WITHOUT putting themselves in a hole.

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Recovery Specific Nutrition

Nutrients in the correct amount are critical for anyone’s recovery. Everyone’s body needs ‘building blocks’ and fuel, as well as anabolic hormone support, to perform the building and the repair processes.  But, for a male over 35 these nutrients become even more of a critical factor. As we age the nutrients that support muscle preservation and indeed muscle growth, increase.  Knowing this, we ensure nutrition plans take all these factors into consideration and change and evolve as the client does.

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Hormone Support

Having healthy high levels of anabolic hormones plays a huge role in your recovery rate. Via the pathways we take in supporting our client’s healthy Testosterone levels (and other growth hormones), as well as personalised client Cortisol management, we work with each individual to help ensure these are constantly moving towards favourable levels that in turn will support client recovery rates.

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Specific Recovery Practices

While a bit of down time between workout sessions to complete the recovery processes was all you needed back when you were younger, we no longer leave anything to chance. Specific recovery practices to shift your body from a heightened sympathetic environment into a parasympathetic state is factored into your protocols, always on a case by case individual basis. Know that your personal recovery rate is being fully supported.

TAILORED TRANSFORMATIONS

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