profile

Proud Boomer Wellness

99 Cents, All Week | Proud Boomer Press

Published 5 days ago • 3 min read

Hello Reader,

Kim asked me the other night what I wanted for my birthday. I told her I wanted people to stop finding out about sarcopenia the hard way, the way I did, in a doctor's office at 58, hearing the word "decline" like it was a diagnosis instead of a choice. She said that wasn't a gift, that was a mission statement. Fair. But it's also why every Kindle book I've written is 99 cents this week. No catch, no funnel, no upsell waiting on page two. Just the price dropped to almost nothing so the excuse of cost is gone.

Muscle loss is not your fate; it's your default setting, and defaults can be changed. Sarcopenia starts showing up in your thirties and picks up speed after 50, but the research is blunt about this: highly active older adults hold onto muscle at rates that make "inevitable decline" look more like a story we tell ourselves than a biological sentence. The window everyone assumes is closed is still open. It just requires you to walk through it instead of reading about it from the couch.

Your protein target has been wrong for years, and it's not your fault. The standard RDA was built for avoiding deficiency, not for building or keeping muscle after 50. Current research points to roughly double that number, spread across your meals instead of dumped into one sitting, because an older body responds to protein differently than a younger one does. Nobody handed you that memo. I'm handing it to you now, for less than a dollar.

Age has never been the ceiling people assume it is. Studies on resistance training keep finding meaningful strength and muscle gains in people in their seventies, eighties, even nineties, some of them previously sedentary. What changes with age is recovery time and how carefully you progress, not whether your body can still adapt. It can. Mine did, at 62, and I've got the deadlift numbers to prove it.

All of it- the muscle science, the protein math, the programming, the straight talk about what the fitness industry sells you that you don't need- is in the books. This week, it's 99 cents. Grab it here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/John-Harris/author/B0FHG9LK59​

QUESTION: What's the one excuse that's kept you off the weight rack the longest- cost, time, or just not knowing where to start?

$5.00

Not Done Yet - Key Takeaways

Each Chapter in Not Done Yet ends with the Key Takeaways. This is your "cheat sheet" to all of them.
​

$2.00

Not Done Yet Glossary of Terms

Not Done Yet has a trove of information. This Glossary will help you navigate it.
​

Get "Not Done Yet"

"Not Done Yet" is available now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and at ProudBoomerBooks.com. If you've read it, or if it helped you get moving again, a quick review on Amazon or Goodreads goes a long way. It takes two minutes, and it helps other people over 50 find the book.

​
Strength After 50

Strength After 50

Dave Durell

I help people over 50 get and stay strong with online workout programs that are safe, effective, time-efficient, and sustainable. Get stronger at any age without getting hurt or wasting time.

$5.00

Proud Boomer Wellness

I write about strength, aging, and not going quietly. No sponsors. No brand deals. Just a guy with a Bernedoodle and a... Read more
​

Proud Boomer Wellness

No fluff. No hype. Just the stuff that actually matters after 50.

Author of "Not Done Yet: Strength, Muscle, and Health after 50" and wellness coach who loves to talk about health & wellness, writing & storytelling, and personal development. Subscribe to my newsletter for tips and a weekly digest of essays and articles.

Read more from Proud Boomer Wellness

Proud Boomer Press Hello Reader, Gus is a fifty-five-pound Bernedoodle who has decided the far side of the yard is where he needs to be right now, and the leash is my problem, not his. I used to end that pull sitting on the ground. Now I plant my feet, brace, and walk him back to the porch like I meant to do that the whole time. I did not get faster. I got stronger. That's the whole story. For years I ate to hit a number on a scale or a size on a tag. Every diet in that cabinet I cleaned out...

about 5 hours ago • 2 min read

Proud Boomer Press Hello Reader, Kim found me in the workshop last week rearranging boxes of my own book so the cover faced out, like I was staging a crime scene instead of a shelf. She didn't say anything. She just looked at me the way she looks at Gus when he brings her a dead lizard, proud of himself, no idea why she's not thrilled. I told her I was "optimizing visibility." She told me I was a 62-year-old man alphabetizing his own name. Both true. I wrote a book called Not Done Yet, and...

3 days ago • 2 min read

Proud Boomer Press Hello Reader, Kim asked me today why I was staring at my laptop, grinning like an idiot. I told her the group is finally live. She said, "The what now?" So, formal announcement. Proud Boomer Health & Wellness is open. It's a Skool community built for people who want to get stronger, move better, and stop pretending that getting older means giving up. It's free. No catch, no fine print, no upsell buried in paragraph four. Just a group of people figuring this out together,...

4 days ago • 2 min read