First, Be a Good Animal.
First, Be a Good Animal: The science and philosophy of aging well for adults 50+.
Strength, longevity, and the joy of moving like a good animal, from a 74-year-old trainer still in training.
This is a collection of articles written by Marty Trussell, NASM-CPT, Founder of VirtaFitness. Part science, part memoir, part philosophy. This is a blog for anyone who wants not just to slow the decline, but to keep building.
It all begins with a series called The Numbers Don’t Lie. Five of them, to be precise. Five instruments. Five readings on the panel of the life support system you have been running, without checking the gauges, for most of your adult life.
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Post 1 — The Readiness Protocol
The program is a flight plan. It tells you where you’re going and how to get there. But no pilot files a flight plan and then ignores the weather on the day of departure. You read the instruments. You adjust. You still fly — but you fly with the information available to you in that moment.
That is what the Readiness Protocol is: metric-guided training. Not an excuse to skip sessions. A framework for making smarter decisions within the program.
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