Fitness & Healthy Aging eBooks

Past forty, training stops being about appearance and starts being about capability — carrying shopping up stairs, getting off the floor unaided, staying in the game your body currently lets you play. These books are written for that goal.

The shelf covers strength work after forty, protecting joints and bone density, mobility that does not require an hour a day, and building a routine you will still do in February. It is honest about recovery taking longer than it used to, and about the fact that consistency beats intensity for almost everyone reading it.

You do not need a gym for most of what is described here, and no book on this shelf assumes you are starting from a base of fitness. Where a programme is given it comes with a genuinely easier version rather than a note telling you to modify it yourself.

Run your own numbers with the free one-rep max, VO2 max and lean body mass calculators. Each book downloads instantly as a PDF you keep for good.