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Hosted by Jonathan · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 18 episodes
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Against the Fade — For Men Who Refuse to Fade in Midlife. Something is happening to men in midlife that nobody talks about. Your body is changing. Your friendships are disappearing. Your sense of purpose is slipping. Society stops seeing you. We call it the fade — and this show exists to fight it. Against the Fade is a podcast for men 35-65 navigating the realities of midlife — physical decline, social isolation, emotional silence, and identity loss. Hosted by Jonathan, a 47-year-old personal trainer and health coach who has spent years training men through this exact chapter of life. Strength. Brotherhood. Defiance. A Second Summit Podcast.
Jonathan hosts Against the Fade, a health show with 18 episodes published.
If your workouts stopped working, it’s probably not effort. It’s that you’ve been training in one gear. This Straight Sets episode breaks down block training, the simple way men over 40 rotate focus so nothing fades in a
Every month brings a new diet and a new wall of supplements. For a midlife man who just wants to feel good and stay strong, the noise is deafening. Meridan Zerner has spent 30 years cutting through it. A registered dieti
You have seen the video. The one exercise everybody should be doing, the move you are secretly missing. We all feel that pull. Here is the truth underneath it: the thing you are missing is almost never an exercise. It is
Most of us are waiting for permission. To relax, to take the risk, to finally live the life we keep telling ourselves we’ll get to once we retire, once the kids are grown, once we hit the number. Tripp Lanier calls it th
If you're over 40 and you've been told to just eat "enough" protein, you've been told the wrong thing. The number is higher than you think, and the rules changed when you crossed 40. In this Straight Sets episode, I brea
It's easy to cut corners on the warm-up. We tell ourselves a few leg swings is enough, or we get sucked into the 30-minute Instagram mobility routine that eats half our gym time. Neither one is right. In this episode of
At almost 40, as a civilian, Michael Ostrolenk completed Kokoro Camp. A 50-hour event modeled on Navy SEAL Hell Week. Most men half his age don’t finish it. But the lesson he took away wasn’t about toughness. It was abou
Jason Lange has spent years in the trenches of men's work, building communities where men actually show up for each other. He's the founder of Evolutionary Men, a men's embodiment coach, certified No More Mr. Nice Guy co
Your body doesn't recover the same way after 40. Testosterone drops. Growth hormone declines. Your recovery window stretches. And most men have no idea it's happening. This is the first episode of Straight Sets, a new se
When was the last time you did something you'd never done before? In this episode, Jonathan digs into what writer Christine Rosen calls the extinction of experience, the slow disappearance of direct, firsthand experience
The most personal episode of Against the Fade yet. This is where the show goes deeper. In the Foundation Series, we diagnosed the fade: physical decline, social isolation, emotional silence, and identity confusion conver
The Foundation Series finale. This is the prescription. For five weeks, we diagnosed the fade, the convergent crisis of physical decline, social isolation, emotional silence, and identity confusion hitting men in midlife
Starting around age 30, your testosterone drops about 1% per year. You lose 3–5% of your muscle mass per decade. Your metabolism slows. Your bones weaken. Your recovery takes longer. And nobody tells you that your approa
Most men right now have no idea what they’re supposed to be. One side of the culture says masculinity is the problem. The other side sells you a costume and calls it strength. Neither is real. And so you’re standing in t
Men account for 80% of suicides in the United States — and the highest-risk group is men aged 45 to 65. Yet men are significantly less likely to seek help. Instead, they go silent. In Episode 3, Jonathan breaks down the
The number of men who say they have no close friends has risen sharply over the past few decades. Chronic loneliness now carries the same mortality risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. And men in midlife are the hardest
Something is happening to men in midlife that nobody's talking about. Physical decline, social isolation, emotional silence, and identity loss are all hitting at the same time — and each one makes the others worse. I'm c
Tripp Lanier
coach, author, podcast host
1 appearance on this show
Michael Ostrolenk
licensed therapist and former master coach
1 appearance on this show
Jason Lange
men’s embodiment coach, group facilitator, certified No More Mr. Nice Guy coach, and evolutionary guide · University of Montevallo
1 appearance on this show
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