The Over 50 Standard

The books

Written for a body that has been in use for fifty years.

Not one of these is a programme for a twenty-five year old with the years filed off. Every rep count, every progression and every rest day assumes recovery is the thing that changed, because it is.

Start here, free

The standards card.

All eleven tests, all four rungs, every number, on one page you can print and take with you. No email, no signup, no upsell in the middle of it. Test yourself first. Then decide whether any of the books below are for you.

Open the standards card

Five books

One for wherever you are stuck.

Every one of them exists because the same question kept turning up in the comments. Buy the one that answers yours. The rest will still be here.

The Field Manual

The Over 50 Standard

The whole system in one book. All eleven tests, all four rungs, every threshold, and the twelve-week programme that moves you up one rung whichever one you start on.

  • Every test written out, with the setup and the two mistakes that cost people a rung
  • The twelve-week block, three days a week, printable
  • Retest protocol so you are measuring progress instead of noise
  • What to do when one test is holding the whole score down

$39$27

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Ten weeks, dead hang to one strict rep

The First Pull-Up After Fifty

The single most requested thing on the channel. A ten-week progression that starts at a thirty second hang and ends at one honest rep, built for shoulders and elbows that have been in service for five decades.

  • Week by week, with the exact rep counts
  • Band assistance that actually tapers instead of hiding the work
  • The elbow and shoulder prep that keeps the ten weeks uninterrupted
  • What to do in week six when it stalls, because it will

$14

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The daily mobility block

Ten Minutes on the Floor

Five hundred push-ups a morning and no comfortable deep squat is a completely normal combination. This is the ten minute sequence that fixes the second half without touching the first.

  • One ten minute sequence, done daily, no equipment
  • Built around the deep squat hold and the overhead reach tests
  • A hip and ankle track for people who sit all day
  • Printable card for the fridge

$9

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The kettlebell protocol for over 50

One Bell, Three Lifts

Swing, get-up, carry. Three of the eleven tests live in one kettlebell, and thirty minutes twice a week is enough to move all three. No complexes, no flows, no nonsense.

  • How to pick the starting weight without guessing
  • The swing taught from the hinge up, because the back pays for the shortcut
  • The get-up broken into six positions you can own separately
  • Two thirty minute sessions a week, written out for twelve weeks

$17

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Protein, timing and the two supplements worth the money

Eat Like You Train

Training after fifty fails on recovery, and recovery fails on food. Protein targets that are actually reachable, a plate you can build in ten minutes, and an honest look at which supplements do anything.

  • The protein number for your bodyweight, and four ways to hit it
  • What to eat around a session, and what genuinely does not matter
  • The two supplements with real evidence, and the twelve without
  • A week of meals that a man who cooks for himself will actually make

$12

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Before you ask

Three fair questions.

Are these paper books or files?

Files. PDF, formatted so it prints properly on a home printer, and readable on a phone in a garage. No app, no login, no expiring link.

Do I need the gear list to use them?

Only two of them. The mobility book and the pull-up book need a floor and something to hang from. The kettlebell book needs a kettlebell, which is the whole point of it.

Which one first?

Take the free card and run the eleven tests. Whichever test embarrassed you is the book to buy. If they all did, start with the field manual.