Awesome After Forty

Cliff Harvey

• 25 november 2025
• 9781067120917

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Are You Over 40 and Tired of Feeling Weak, Sick, and Tired? This Book is Your Counter-Narrative.

Do you find yourself saying, "I'm not what I used to be"? Do you feel trapped by aches, pains, and the belief that physical decline is an inevitable part of aging? For many, life after forty becomes a frustrating cycle of high-stress jobs, family commitments, and workouts that feel more like a chore than a path to health, leaving you feeling like you're just "working out to get better at working out".

It doesn't have to be this way. Your forties are not an epilogue to your youth; they can be the beginning of your prime.

In Awesome After 40, Cliff Harvey, PhD, and Darren "Daz" Ellis, MSc, combine decades of in-the-trenches experience and scientific expertise to deliver a new charter for thriving. They reject the "fitness-industrial complex" of gruelling, soul-crushing workouts and instead provide a brilliant handbook full of time-tested, practical techniques designed for real life.

This isn't about recapturing your youth; it's about building lasting resilience, function, and a body that serves you for decades to come. It's a refreshing, less-is-more approach that helps you build a practice that complements your life, rather than consumes it.

Inside, you'll discover:

• The "Minimum Effective Dose" of Training: Learn how to get stronger and build muscle with remarkably time-efficient workouts that you can stick with forever.
• A Smarter Approach to Strength: Focus on coordinated movement patterns over simply training muscles, ensuring your efforts in the gym translate directly to everyday life.
• Nutrition Without the Obsession: Implement a simple "modular approach to meal planning" that eliminates the need to count calories and allows you to eat when you're hungry and until you're full.
• How to Master Sleep and Stress: Uncover the secrets to optimizing these often-overlooked pillars of health to accelerate your recovery and improve your vitality.
• Solutions for the "Deskbound Body": Practical, corrective exercises to alleviate the common aches, pains, and postural issues that come from a modern lifestyle.

This is your guide to redefining what's possible after 40.