The other day I got an email from a younger-ish reader lamenting that I was practicing bigotry against people under age 40.
Despite my cruel prejudice, he related the following:
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Your book “Squat Every Day” changed everything in regards to my training. It was one of the first and few books related to training that actually addressed the other 22 hours in an applicable way at depth beyond “eat this” and “sleep x amount of hours after your sauna/cold plunge”
Your work brought everything that probably actually matters into the spotlight at such a crazy low price point. I have probably visited that book annually now for the last decade. Every time I have wandered off I end up back at those ideas. The principles and ideas you put out there have by far yielded the most positive results in my 18ish years of training.
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You know what? If you want on my good side, this is the kind of things you write to me.
Not only because it is flattering to my fat greedy ego.
This fine gentleman did the unthinkable: He actually read the damn book, took the key ideas from it, and put them into practice in his own training.
After a decade of dullards moaning that “there’s no program to use!” and “you’ll destroy your knees/back/adrenals!” it’s like jumping into a cool pond on a hot summer day when you meet a reader who uses his mind for more than complaining about whatever their two-digit IQ could not process.
Getting back to my age-ism.
Truth is, he’s welcome to join in on the fun even though he doesn’t make the cut-off.
My bigotry is limited to the Confederate stars-and-bars along with my unreasonable love of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I’m targeting people over 40 for these reasons:
1. That’s my age bracket, and I am personally familiar with the special considerations that happen once the odometer turns over 4-0.
2. Being in the middle part of your life makes you more conscious of time’s endless passage and less willing to waste it. There’s more focus and urgency, which can translate into taking action.
3. Folks in this age range are more likely to have the means to pursue it along with the will and desire.
4. If you’re still in the prime of youth’s flower, you may not need much of the problem-solving wisdom that I have to communicate.
You’ll benefit from it, sure, but the need won’t be as apparent while your vital life-energies are at their peak.
Us older folks know aches and pains, we know the need to have a nap in the afternoon, and we understand why the experts all say you need a solid 8 hours of sleep.
To that end, I’m opening up a group for you good readers (those of you that hung around, or could read instructions, after my numerous warnings over the last few days) who want to come along on this ride.
I’m turning my attention to longevity and vitality.
How can we train and eat and live our lives so that we’re living as best we can as we get older?
That’s the movement and the mission that we’ll work on together.
NOTE: This group is 100% free of charge for my email subscribers.
If you’re interested, you can join for free with this link:
Matt Perryman