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Building Strength and Muscle After 50
Muscle and strength have no age limits.
With Building Strength and Muscle After 50, you can benefit from over 30 years of personal training experience from Chad Landers, who has trained high-profile clients such as Duff McKagan, William Zabka, Jerry Cantrell, Stephen Perkins, and Catherine Dent. He will guide you through the physical, hormonal, and mental hurdles that trainees over age 50 encounter in their efforts to build and maintain muscle and definition.
Building Strength and Muscle After 50 describes the importance of recovery, the value of resistance training, and the most effective ways to reduce the risk of injury while training. Landers discusses the big three age-related health issues—sarcopenia, metabolism decline, and osteoporosis—and will help you develop an approach to building strength that meets you where you’re at.
The book contains 76 exercises for the entire chest and back exercises26 shoulder, biceps, and triceps exercises12 core exercises18 hip, thigh, and calf exercises
Whether you’re returning to resistance training after a break or you’ve never picked up a weight before, the step-by-step instructions for each exercise make this an accessible and approachable resource. Chad’s Take sections offer ways to maximize results and vary or modify an exercise for your unique goals. With nine programs ranging from two to four lifts per week, you can pick the plan that fits your schedule.
Practical and accessible, this resource is complete with a chapter on nutrition guidance to help you fuel correctly and contains an abundance of pop culture references meant to make the reading experience more enjoyable. Landers has trained dozens of clients in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s, proving that it’s never too late to claim or reclaim your strength at any stage of life!
Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.
With Building Strength and Muscle After 50, you can benefit from over 30 years of personal training experience from Chad Landers, who has trained high-profile clients such as Duff McKagan, William Zabka, Jerry Cantrell, Stephen Perkins, and Catherine Dent. He will guide you through the physical, hormonal, and mental hurdles that trainees over age 50 encounter in their efforts to build and maintain muscle and definition.
Building Strength and Muscle After 50 describes the importance of recovery, the value of resistance training, and the most effective ways to reduce the risk of injury while training. Landers discusses the big three age-related health issues—sarcopenia, metabolism decline, and osteoporosis—and will help you develop an approach to building strength that meets you where you’re at.
The book contains 76 exercises for the entire chest and back exercises26 shoulder, biceps, and triceps exercises12 core exercises18 hip, thigh, and calf exercises
Whether you’re returning to resistance training after a break or you’ve never picked up a weight before, the step-by-step instructions for each exercise make this an accessible and approachable resource. Chad’s Take sections offer ways to maximize results and vary or modify an exercise for your unique goals. With nine programs ranging from two to four lifts per week, you can pick the plan that fits your schedule.
Practical and accessible, this resource is complete with a chapter on nutrition guidance to help you fuel correctly and contains an abundance of pop culture references meant to make the reading experience more enjoyable. Landers has trained dozens of clients in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s, proving that it’s never too late to claim or reclaim your strength at any stage of life!
Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.
216 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 3, 2025
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November 10, 2025
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This book nicely targets an often forgotten age group: Gen Xers (those in their 50s). This is ideal for those with a gym membership who would like a 2, 3, or 4 day workout ideal for their age group. This is suitable for those just beginning training or those who have been training for awhile now. I appreciated that the author is in his 50s as well.The book has a solid introduction that discusses nutrition, drug interactions (such as statins), and evaluating current fitness condition. From there we get suitable warmups and then targeted exercise groups: chest and back, shoulders/biceps/triceps, core, lower body. There is a chapter on optimizing your training in 2, 3 and 4 day a week programs. Finally, there is a chapter on cardio and recovery.
The book is entirely in black and white and includes high key photographs of the exercises. Each exercise has a title, a description, step by step bullet instructions, photographs and then tips in the form of 'Chad's take.' A lot of the tips section is about preventing injury. There is nothing revolutionary about the exercises and many require a well stocked gym's equipment. But several can be done with just a bench as well.
The programs have an introductory paragraph with goals and how/why they are set up as they are.
Each component of the program is laid out in neat charts that are easy to reference (they include the name of the exercise, the focus of the exercise, sets/reps, and page number. The programs each have several components; e.g., the 4 day program includes push and pull exercise groups as well as lower and upper body groups.
In all, nicely presented and easy to follow. If I had a nitpick, it would be that the photographs weren't as clear as I would have liked. They are shot in high key against a white wall, so the figures are well defined. But there are only 1-2 photographs at most for each exercise and the book relies heavily on text rather than the visuals. I think most people, especially for exercising, are visual learners so this is a bit of a frustration. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.
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