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Nick Conaway joins Tim Riley to talk strength training for older adults, how to build muscle after 40, and why most men are overcomplicating everything. Nick went from running nuclear power plants for 20 years to building a men's health platform with hundreds of thousands of followers, and this podcast looks at the road he took to getting there.

Nick Conaway built Fit Over 40 Man for guys aged 40 to late 50s who are drowning in social media noise and paralyzed by conflicting fitness advice. His approach strips it down: sleep, a three-day full body workout split, single-ingredient foods, and consistent daily non-negotiables. No extreme protocols. No peptide stacking. No lone-wolf nonsense.

This conversation covers the full picture: how golden handcuffs kept him stuck in nuclear energy, what Carol Dweck's Mindset and Atomic Habits did for his identity after a career-ending CrossFit injury, why men's health has to include blood work, and why male loneliness midlife is a bigger performance killer than bad programming.

They also get into quitting alcohol for fat loss, fitness and longevity as a long game, and why the best thing you can do for an aging parent is get them lifting weights.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:11 - First annual client meetup in Dallas

00:03:50 - Who is Nick Conaway

00:05:33 - 20 years in nuclear power and golden handcuffs

00:11:23 - Leaving corporate life and betting on himself

00:17:10 - Childhood roots and the fear of career transitions

00:24:05 - CrossFit obsession, overtraining, and emergency rib surgery

00:32:00 - Shifting from outcome-driven to process-driven identity

00:36:00 - Simplifying nutrition and managing midlife stress

00:42:00 - Male community and midlife isolation

00:46:05 - Showing up daily and navigating grief while building a business

00:52:16 - Social media growth, blood work, and training for older adults

01:05:49 - Peptide overuse vs. the alcohol-free generation

01:11:21 - Alternative career and actionable steps for men over 40

01:15:15 - Unsolicited advice

#FitnessOver40 #NickConaway #StrengthTrainingForOlderAdults #CoachEmUpPodcast #FitOver40Man #MensHealthOver40 #HowToBuildMuscleAfter40 #HealthyHabitsForMen #FitnessAndLongevity #FitnessPodcast

Check out Lance on socials! @LanceBrooks_PhD

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Dr. Lance Brooks breaks down sprint mechanics and biomechanics of sprinting at a level most coaches never reach. Tim Riley sits down with the coach, researcher, and founder of Brooks Performance Methods to dig into first principles of sprinting, sarcomere function, quasi isometric contractions, and why the elastic vs force dominant sprinters debate is built on a false premise.

Lance's path is wild: bodybuilding forums to personal training at 24 Hour Fitness and Gold's Gym, then D1 strength and conditioning internships, a master's under Dr. Ken Clark, a doctorate, and postdoctoral work in a Harvard comparative biology lab implanting crystals into rats and running guinea fowl on treadmills. All of it in service of understanding how muscles actually produce force during locomotion.

The conversation covers acceleration vs max velocity mechanics, impulse momentum sprinting, vertical impulse top speed sprinting, horizontal impulse acceleration sprinting, and what Newton's Second Law actually demands from a coach's programming. Lance also dismantles the lazy "science lags behind practice" talking point and explains why mastering basic first principles of sprinting will always outperform chasing hyper-specific applied studies.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:04:09 - Lance's Background and Career Path

00:15:30 - Early Coaching Lessons and Internship Blunders

00:22:34 - Bridging Research and the Field

00:32:14 - Comparative Biology, Animal Models, and Muscle Testing

01:04:30 - First Principles of Sprinting and Biomechanics

01:21:40 - Quasi-Isometric Muscle Mechanics and the Elastic vs Force Myth

01:36:00 - Sprinting/Research Q&A

#SprintMechanics #Biomechanics #CoachEmUpPodcast #LanceBrooks #SpeedDevelopment #StrengthAndConditioning #ForcePlate,#SprintTraining #ExercisePhysiology #Podcast

Check out Ashley on socials! @dr.dwyer

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Dr. Ashley Dwyer joins Tim Riley to break down how chronic underfueling and overtraining wreck your hormones, what the polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) diagnosis changes about previous PCOS treatment, and what creatine benefits for women actually look like in practice.

Ashley Dwyer went from retail pharmacy to NPC bodybuilding to complete hormonal burnout before she hit 30. Every specialist she saw handed her a prescription instead of asking one question about how she was training or eating. Sound familiar?

Tim and Ashley dig into the real mechanics behind HPA axis dysfunction and thyroid suppression, signs of endocrine burnout that most athletes brush off as just being tired, and why your labs can say "normal" while your body is running on fumes. They cover the four distinct subtypes of PMOS, why carbs and cortisol have a direct relationship your coach probably never explained, and what a legitimate reverse dieting after bodybuilding show protocol actually looks like when it is done right.

If you or someone you coach is under-eating, overtrained, and wondering why nothing is working, this episode has the answers. Subscribe to never miss another episode!

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:55 - College Football and Weight Room Culture

00:07:55 - Retail Pharmacy Life

00:11:15 - NPC Bodybuilding, Orthorexia, and Undereating

00:15:40 - Endocrine Collapse and Conventional Medicine Failures

00:23:00 - Underfueling in Athletes and the Female Athlete Triad

00:28:53 - HPA, HPT, and HPG Axes

00:34:30 - Down-Regulation and Intuitive Eating

00:40:00 - Clinical Intake Process and Reverse Dieting Protocol

00:46:40 - PCOS Reclassified as PMOS and Western Medicine Shortcomings

00:52:15 - The Three Root Drivers of PMOS

00:58:30 - Supplements vs. Foundations

01:04:22 - Three Things, Rant and Rave, and Alternate Careers

01:10:10 - Overrated vs. Underrated and Unsolicited Advice

#CoachEmUpPodcast #DrAshleyDwyer #PCOS #PMOS #HormoneHealth #FemaleAthlete #MetabolicHealth #FunctionalHealth #Podcast #WomensHealth