 First question is from Daniel Mesa one. How possible is it to make muscle gains at 40? Oh gosh So here's the thing I so I train a lot of people towards the end of my career as a trainer That were in advanced age, which I believe is classified as like over 65. I'd say we need advanced age now. No, we're not No, I'm gonna use it I'm like man. That was me the last time you snuck up on us. Yeah, no I'm using that as an example because that's way older than 40 So these are typically it's considered anybody over 65 In a fitness, you know context and I I would say towards the end of my career a good 35 percent of my clients were over The age of 65 so I had a lot of experience training them And they would often ask me the same question except they were 70 or 80 Sal Can I get stronger at 75 years old or can I build muscle at 75? The day your body loses its ability to adapt to stress is the day that you're dead Okay, so you never lose the ability to adapt to exercise now your potential can definitely change You're not gonna be able to get as strong at 70 as you can at 20 40 yeah, there's a little bit of a difference, but not much. There's not much of it Just there is a difference. Well, I think not much I think there's a I think there's a big difference in When we're comparing these two things right like a 40-year-old who is starting their fitness journey for the first time ever at 40 Versus somebody who's trained off and on for a really long time And maybe they've been off for five years and they're training at 40 because something that I'm finding getting closer to 40 right now is Yeah, it's it's it's harder to get in the gym and lift and I have the aches and the pains and I have these and maybe like Testosterone levels are starting to slowly decline in comparison to what I was when I was 20 So there's those factors But then there's the the positive factor for someone like me who's lifted for so long That I definitely feel like if I get in the gym and I start touching weights again my body remembers really quick So there's it depends on the 40-year-old that I'm talking to am I talking to a 40-year-old Who's never lifted weights before or am I talking to a 40-year-old who has lifting experience? They just haven't got back or they're back on the wagon right look Doug is a great example Doug came to me as a client and he was a self-described hard gainer Says oh, I'll I do is gain body fat. I followed every routine. I've been consistent forever guy was working out since he was in his 20s. He came to me in his late 40s and Through changing the way he trained and training him properly. He didn't just get in good shape He got in the best shape of his life. In fact, if you're watching this on YouTube We'll have Andrew post up his before and after so you can see what he looked like in his late 40s And you'd be blown away. So I hate saying that yeah, you might notice some decline Here's the people that might notice declines the people that are super high level all the time Everybody else you're probably not gonna notice because because well, you'll notice more as am I inconsistent is my diet poor Am I getting bad sleep now? If you're like at a top level at you know in your mid 20s 30s and 40s Then I've been consistent all the time For a long time. I'm being super consistent with diet and exercise I notice a little bit of decline would I notice that at all if I was in and out I don't think so. I know it's the diet. It's all about the other factors that make this. Yeah, there's other things, too I mean, I feel like we have to give or defend some, you know, somebody who's 40 plus that's getting into fitness You know where you're at at 40 years old There's other factors besides like I know the question is probably geared towards like Hormonally and your body's ability to adapt and all that stuff all all is it's fairly close to the same or equal And I agree with you, but then when you're 40, you've probably been married have kids Those are yeah, you have real established patterns work hardwired, right work is a huge priority You know when you're 22, you know as long as you get your you're you're studying in for the week for your test scores Or that the rest of time could be focused on yourself and training. That's a big difference So I think that that you you have to give them some sort of credit or that it's a little more challenging for someone Who's starting at 40 late in their life who has all these other habits established and but good habits, right? Working and doing those things are important This is also why and you address this in the hardgainer webinar with Doug and everything like this is also why I Find a full-body routine to be so superior is a guy who's trying to get into it Or even a girl for that matter that's trying to get into fitness at 40 years old or older And it's trying to follow these kind of body parts split routines where they need to train, you know Four or five six days a week and be consistent doing that while all these other factors are in play And you don't have the the the experience of lifting forward definitely can be challenging Versus somebody who is lifting a full-body routine that maybe only needs to commit to three days inside the gym A lot of people can make that commitment and be consistent about it And if they do miss a day, it's not as detrimental to them as far as their progress as it is for somebody who's doing a split routine You know, it's funny is now that you brought up men on women. You made me think of something the the most Fit women I've ever trained in my life most okay Most women that hire trainers are usually because personal training is expensive usually in their 30s or older you rarely ever get a 20-something-year-old client who hires you just because they don't have the finances to afford paying, you know 50 to $100 an hour so most the female clients are over the age of 30 I would say and Comparing my female clients in the 30s to the ones in the 40s the ones in the 40s got in better shape And it's not because of the age. It's because I think when the women were in their 40s, their kids were older They're not having kids anymore. Yeah, then they became more focused Whereas the the the moms that I had that were in their 30s It was harder for them to juggle time and scheduling and then got little kids Which takes up more time So I think that's the biggest factor is the time stuff and these responsibilities Also noticed too like even depending 40 50 60 year olds that I've trained that like haven't even like lifted weights before ever They get those newbie gains. Oh, yeah, it's definitely something that still happens. It's this phenomenon your body's like wow What is this? It's a brand new stimulus So there is a bit of momentum there in the beginning so it does kind of help give you a little bit of a lift Initially, yeah, and here's the big thing the older you get this is a good This is kind of cool the older that you get if you're consistent with exercise The the further away you are from your peers the more the bet so in other words if you were to compare yourself to your peers and You're a 20 year old and you work out and you're comparing yourself to other 20 year olds You don't really work out There's a little bit of a difference when you're 40 that difference is much bigger and the older you get the bigger That difference gets to the point where when you get to your 60s and 70s if you're exercising consistently You are independent. They aren't they can't even take care of themselves half the time and you're fully independent So that's one of the good things about you know getting older you take care of yourself You maintain a level of fitness that just totally separates you from your peers It really is like one of the grasses greener than their side because it at that age It just presents different challenges, right? I feel I feel like that they're sure there are some challenges But it's different than what it was at 25 30. So both equally difficult difficult to build muscle You gotta be a bit smarter with your approach, right?