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40+ Fitness Podcast

40+ Fitness Podcast

Allan Misner 763 Episodes Oct 13, 2026

The 40+ Fitness Podcast helps people in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond improve their health and fitness. Host Allan Misner mixes practical advice with an encouraging, entertaining style to keep older adults motivated. Each episode covers topics like strength training, nutrition, and mindset, with the goal of making healthy living accessible at any age. The show publishes weekly on Tuesdays.

Episodes

Why your brain turns on itself with Dr. David Perlmutter
Why your brain turns on itself with Dr. David Perlmutter Oct 13, 2026 50:31 Your brain has its own immune system, and whether those immune cells protect your brain or attack it depends largely on your metabolic health, which you control with what you eat, how you move, how you sleep, and even the air you breathe. Dr. David Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist and six-time New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain, Brain Maker, Drop Acid, and now Brain Defen
How to Recover Stronger with Zora Benhamou
How to Recover Stronger with Zora Benhamou Oct 6, 2026 49:04 The way to recover stronger from surgery is to build the foundation before you ever get to the operating room: go in with as much muscle as you can keep, feed the repair with protein, and get your sleep, stress, and inflammation under control, then layer on advanced tools only with a doctor's guidance. Zora Benhamou is a gerontologist, healthy aging coach, and host of the Hack My Age podcast. Aft
Sleep Is a Skill: How to Fix Your Sleep After 40 - Mollie McGlocklin
Sleep Is a Skill: How to Fix Your Sleep After 40 - Mollie McGlocklin Sep 29, 2026 45:53 Better sleep after 40 comes from building the right daily rhythms, not from trying harder at bedtime. Mollie McGlocklin, creator of Sleep Is a Skill, makes the case that sleep is a learnable skill, and that forcing it or chasing a perfect score on your tracker usually makes it worse. Mollie went through acute insomnia while traveling overseas and left doctor after doctor with sleeping pills and no
Turn down the volume on your pain with Dr. Rachel Zoffness
Turn down the volume on your pain with Dr. Rachel Zoffness Sep 8, 2026 44:03 Pain is built by the brain, and because the brain can change, pain can change. That is the core of what pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness lays out in this episode. Pain is never all in your head, but it is never only in the body part that hurts either. It is biopsychosocial: biology, psychology, and your social world all turn the volume up or down. Dr. Zoffness is faculty at the UCSF School of
The 4 Pillars of Building Muscle After 40 with Alain Gonzalez
The 4 Pillars of Building Muscle After 40 with Alain Gonzalez Sep 1, 2026 34:01 You can still build muscle after 40, and the research says you can build it at close to the same rate as a 25-year-old. What has to change is not how hard you train, it is how strategically you train, eat, and recover. Alain Gonzalez is a fitness coach, author, and the creator of the largest YouTube channel dedicated to men's fitness over 40. He has spent more than 17 years helping men build muscl
Why living longer isn't the goal
Why living longer isn't the goal Aug 25, 2026 25:17 Living longer is not the goal. Living better is, because the extra years most people are gaining are sick years, not good ones. In this solo episode, Coach Allan digs into the Global Burden of Disease study published in The Lancet Public Health, which found the gap between lifespan and healthspan grew from 8.8 years in 1990 to 10.7 years by 2023. That is nearly eleven years, about 15% of a life, s
Low-Impact Workouts Are Making You Fragile with Graham Tuttle
Low-Impact Workouts Are Making You Fragile with Graham Tuttle Aug 18, 2026 01:00:12 Relying only on low-impact exercise can leave you more fragile as you age, because your bones and connective tissue need impact to stay strong. Graham Tuttle, a coach, the author of Born to Sprint, and the self-styled Barefoot Sprinter, argues that sprinting, jumping, and throwing are the real markers of a healthy body at any age, and that stripping impact out of your training in the name of safet
Move Better, Hurt Less with Dean Pohlman
Move Better, Hurt Less with Dean Pohlman Aug 11, 2026 36:32 Mobility, your ability to move a joint through its range using your own strength, matters more for men over 40 than passive flexibility, and rebuilding it is what lets you keep squatting, lifting, and moving through daily life without pain. In this episode I talk with Dean Pohlman, founder of Man Flow Yoga and author of Yoga Fitness for Men, about why sitting all day leaves most of us with mobilit
The Fight No One Scheduled: GLP-1s vs. Peptides
The Fight No One Scheduled: GLP-1s vs. Peptides Aug 4, 2026 29:52 On this episode of the 40+ Fitness Podcast, Coach Allan breaks down the fight playing out right now in Washington, DC, between GLP-1 medications and peptides. The two keep getting mentioned in the same breath, but they sit on opposite sides of the evidence line. GLP-1s like semaglutide and tirzepatide are tested medications with known dosing and documented side effects. Peptides like BPC-157 and T
Why Rest Won't Fix Your Knee or Back Pain with Dr. Tom Walters
Why Rest Won't Fix Your Knee or Back Pain with Dr. Tom Walters Jul 28, 2026 37:01 Summary Dr. Tom Walters, a board-certified orthopedic physical therapist and the founder of Rehab Science, returns to talk through two of the most common complaints after 40: knee pain and back pain. We get into why rest alone rarely fixes either one, how cartilage actually gets its nutrients through movement, and how to tell a tendon problem from something deeper in the joint. Tom explains load
Your Metabolism Isn't Broken After 40 - with Eric Bach
Your Metabolism Isn't Broken After 40 - with Eric Bach Jul 21, 2026 43:31 On episode 756 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan sits down with Eric Bach, entrepreneur, coach, and author with over 16 years of experience helping thousands of former athletes and executives get lean, strong, and look great naked, without sacrificing all their time to the gym. Think your metabolism is "broken" after 40? Think again! Eric breaks down why age isn't to blame for stalled progress, dispels
Lose Fat, Keep Your Strength with Tyler Harnett
Lose Fat, Keep Your Strength with Tyler Harnett Jul 14, 2026 37:39 On episode 755 of the 40+ Fitness podcast, we're joined by Tyler Harnett, a former super heavyweight powerlifter, strongman, and rugby forward turned strength coach who specializes in helping people over 40 lose fat without sacrificing the strength they've worked hard to build. Tyler shares his personal journey from "Mr. Big Guy" to dropping over 80 pounds while maintaining his power, and dives i

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