Practical strength, running and nutrition coaching for people over 50 — from a coach with 40+ years under the bar, not a content farm.
Most fitness advice is written for 25-year-olds and resold to everyone else. Yours shouldn’t be.
Programming built for the next 30 years, not the next 30 days. Joints, tendons and recovery are part of the plan — not an afterthought.
From your first 5K to getting back after a layoff — plans that respect where your body is right now and build from there.
Eat to keep muscle, energy and a lean frame after 50. Simple rules that hold up in real life — no gram-counting religion.
Every recommendation is filtered through research and four decades of coaching and competing. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t get published.
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Tendons heal slower after 50 — that’s physiology. Sitting on the couch isn’t the answer. Here’s how to train through it, smarter.
Read on Substack → TrainingA plateau after 50 isn’t a warning light. It’s information. What’s actually happening under the hood — and the levers that restart progress.
Read on Substack → StrengthSarcopenia is real. It is not inevitable. The evidence on what it actually takes to build — and keep — muscle in your 50s and beyond.
Read on Substack →Rod Clarke has been coaching and competing for over four decades. He built Strong After 50 for one reason: he couldn’t find honest, practical training advice written for people in their 50s, 60s and beyond — so he wrote it himself.
Every program, every issue, every podcast episode comes out of real coaching — real bodies, real setbacks, real results. Nothing recycled, nothing generic.
“Age is just another variable to train around.”
— Rod Clarke, Strong After 50Join 47,000+ people getting practical, no-BS training and longevity advice every week. Free forever — or take the full library for US$7/month.