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Insights · Training after 50

What we have learned
screening bodies over 50

Notes from the floor at 1039 SC-41. Written by Jesse, based on what the screens actually show rather than what fitness magazines say they should.

Why "good for your age" is the worst compliment in fitness

A client told me a trainer said she was pretty good for a seventy-year-old. She did not take it as a compliment, and she was right not to. Here is what that phrase costs people.

Jesse Covele · 6 min read

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Movement screening

What a movement screen actually finds on a 60-year-old

Seven tests, scored zero to twenty-one. Here is what the numbers usually look like, and what the low ones are telling you.

Jesse Covele · 5 min read

Injury and recovery

Your PT discharged you. That is not the finish line.

The gap between “cleared” and “strong” is where most people quietly lose everything they just gained. What to do in the twelve weeks after discharge.

Jesse Covele · 7 min read

Strength after 50

Why we move well before we move often

Quality before quantity is not a slogan, it is the order operations have to happen in. What the first eight weeks should actually look like.

Jesse Covele · 5 min read

Strength after 50

The grandchild test

Can you get down to the floor and back up with something in your arms? It is the most honest strength assessment most people over 50 will ever take.

Jesse Covele · 4 min read

Eating enough to build something

Most people over 50 who train hard and see nothing are undereating, not overeating. Written with our registered dietitian.

Jesse Covele · 6 min read

Injury and recovery

Compensation is not the same as healing

Years of avoiding one movement teaches your body a workaround that feels completely normal from the inside. Here is how it shows up on a screen.

Jesse Covele · 5 min read

Take the first step

Reading about it only gets you so far

Twenty free minutes at 1039 SC-41, North Mt. Pleasant, and you will know more about what your own body is doing than any article can tell you. No training, no equipment, no sales pitch.