Building Muscle at 40: What Nobody Tells You

Can you build muscle over 40 naturallly and without TRT? In this video, I am tackling this line of thought head on. This comes in the form of a question and answer sessions where we open up our comment section to our viewers to ask their most burning questions. One of the themes that repeatedly come

going to tick some people off today Jesse oh boy here we go today we have a question that kind of kicked this all off you probably already know where we’re going with this Jesse read the question please so this is from Bob Striker 1979 hey Jeff I’m 46 years old and have been working out regularly for the last 10 years but I’m feeling lost I made some good progress for sure but I saw a Joe Rogan interview with David gogins but I couldn’t help it get discouraged when I saw how good they look and what great shape they’re in and they’re both over the age of 50 they have to be taking something right I feel like there’s no way you can build muscle like that and be that lean over the age of 40 naturally I posed the same question to my MD and he agreed with me that it’s not possible I know you’re in your early 40s and in great shape so what do you think boy all right so there’s a lot here um I’m going to give Bob Bob Striker Bob Striker I’m going to give Bob an actual plan here to if you’re out there if you’re over 40 you’re going to get a full like a training concept and a nutrition concept that’s going to work for you I guarantee he’s going to be happy what about those of us that are not 40 you need to watch this cuz you need to learn where you’re ultimately heading here and a lot of what I share is going to apply right to you too they’re Universal principles okay but can I start by being ticked off myself sure I just said I was going to do it to other people I am myself nothing pisses me off more than when MDS make those kind of blanket statements because they’re highly discouraging and a lot of times this is coming from someone by the way who has a father who’s an MD okay but he also knows that there’s some limites to what he knows about it’s an all-encompassing practice practice but he doesn’t necessarily know about how to build muscle the best not the best guy you go to you’re sick you want to get better that’s who you go to but you want to kind of optimize your health he’s not the right guy for that and he’d be the first one to admit it I don’t know if this guy should be giving out that advice because he just discourages him right there he’s looking for agreement you’re not going to get agreement from me that that exists by the way there’s some very good doctors out there that know exactly about these types of things but he’s not one of them okay now the next thing is the comparison to Joe and David Goggins y okay now we’ll get into them specifically but the point is we are setting ourselves up for failure by comparing ourselves to who we see yes okay now back in the day we didn’t have social media we didn’t have our phones we looked at ourselves right we trained in our basements we had mirrors right you had a mirror yeah yeah when we started training when I was a kid uh we had that full length mirror right next to the DB right because you know you catch a glimpse the first time you ever saw a tricep oh D don’t even that little wrinkle of a tricep you’re like wow I’m making progress and you feel good about it and you you string together enough victories to feel motivated to keep going yeah nowadays what people do is they don’t look at themselves for the gauge of how they’re progressing instead they look to the other people yeah and they’re very discouraging very discouraging experience the problem is they’re not just looking at Joe and David Goggins they’re looking at regular people who are have a job and are in the same position they are and they look fantastic because of course they’re going to put those fantastic photos under the best Lighting on Instagram and they get discouraged by that so it’s when regular people start to look really good that becomes especially defeating so I think that’s one of the big issues I want to make sure people steer away from that when I when I was a kid I had bodybuilding magazines and of course those guys were immense and everything else but I kind of did look at them as Pros right they were the pros and I was naive to what they were actually taking in terms of drugs and I figured if I could just look 25% of that I’d be happy yeah so again I still compare myself to myself and not them and I would encourage people to continue to do that if they want to have more of a positive mindset as far as Joe Rogan Joe’s actually someone I believe has been openly honest about being on trt yeah I’m pretty sure but the thing that people will chase that with is this gentleman here would probably go H I knew it that’s why we can’t we shouldn’t even bother training because I’m not taking that so therefore I can’t first thing is you might want to get looked at you know just responsibly to make sure that testosterone is not an issue for you cuz it could explain why he’s struggling with his results yeah but the point is is like you can’t then say oh well that’s the reason Joe looks the way he does completely discounting the fact that he’s on a rigorous training program he does Jiu-Jitsu outside of just training in the gym his health and putting in the the donations of time towards improving his health is one of his highest priorities like he doesn’t just around with that it’s actually what he does he and he prioritizes that so therefore that’s what I think when you put the big picture together is what accounts for him looking the way he does okay whether or not the trt is a factor of that of course it can enhance things but it’s not the main reason the only reason why then you take a guy like David goggin’s on the other end there he’s someone who’s clean to be 100% natural and I believe him and he looks phenomenal too and he’s 50 years old also so you know by the way he uh he gave me some extra years on that question did he yeah he made me younger than I actually am I’m going be close to David goin’s age this year said early 40s early 40s thank you very much so now how do we still how can we look that well it is possible it is that see I’m here to tell all those out there who think it’s not possible that 100% it is and the way to get there is to have a specific approach to training and nutrition let’s start with training okay okay the first thing for me if you’re looking to build muscle and you’re over 40 but again you’re aspiring as a even in your age now the first thing I would do is I would try to aim for three to four workouts in a week strain training workouts okay okay lifting weights and if you could do four I would do four if you can only do three I’d do three if I was doing three I’d be doing total body workouts okay if I’m doing four i’ do a Monday and a Tuesday with a day off and then a Thursday and a Friday and I split it up with upper lower upper lower okay okay all upper body stuff lower body upper body lower body got it the next thing is I want you to train both for strength and for hypertrophy do you know some people don’t know the difference really yeah you do now but in the beginning you actually didn’t know what hypertrophy was right no I that was a term that that gone right over my head and it’s so like it’s it’s part of what I do so I kind of take it for granted yeah hypertrophy is when you are trying to build muscle as your main focus building strength is trying to become a stronger individual being able to move more weight in space or move your body around against resistance more easily as athletes we’re going to need all of that right all the above so we should be training for that simultaneously the fact is that as we get older both of those things are very important you’re going to need your strength because with each passing decade you’re going to actually lose the