THE CATALOG
WILL POWER
PROTOCOLS BOOKS
Science-backed protocols for performance and longevity after 50. Every book is built protocol-first — what to do, why it works, and the peer-reviewed research behind it. No filler. No padding.
14 HEALTH & FITNESS BOOKS · 18 IN ALL
WIN THE LONG WAR
Longevity Series
The full-spectrum longevity framework for men over 50. Sleep, inflammation, metabolic health, and the supplement stack that actually moves the needle.
WIN THE LONG WAR — WOMEN'S EDITION
Women's Series
The longevity protocol rebuilt for women over 50 — hormones, bone density, cardiovascular health, and the compounds the research actually supports.
THE CLYDESDALE PROTOCOL
Athlete Series
For the bigger, heavier endurance athlete who's been racing for decades. Training load, fueling, recovery, and joint protection for the long game.
THE ATHENA PROTOCOL
Athlete / Women's Series
The female athlete's performance and longevity protocol. Built around the hormonal realities of competing after 40 — not borrowed from men's research.
THE ROMAN PROTOCOL
Ancient Battle Protocols
Roman Legion discipline applied to modern performance. Cold exposure, structured fasting, zone 2, and the stoic mindset behind elite endurance.
AI AFTER 50
AI Advantage Series
How to use AI to optimize your health, training, finances, and productivity in the second half of life. The tools the next generation already uses.
THE SPARTAN PROTOCOL
Ancient Battle Protocols
The discipline system for men — train and endure like a Spartan warrior. The Agoge, the Phalanx Body, the Krypteia hormesis protocols, and the system that holds.
THE FUNCTIONAL FITNESS PROTOCOL
Athlete Series
Why Hyrox and CrossFit beat endurance racing after 50. The science-backed case for redirecting your training toward grip strength, power output, and the numbers that predict the next twenty years.
THE DISCIPLINE PROTOCOL
Discipline Series
365 daily entries across twelve monthly pillars — the structure that runs whether you feel like it or not. Standards, mindset, strength, sleep, nutrition, accountability, purpose, and recovery, one day at a time.
THE GLP-1 MUSCLE PROTOCOL FOR WOMEN
Women's Series
Your GLP-1 is working — the open question is what the weight is made of. The strength-and-protein protocol to run alongside the medication: an at-home scoreboard, the protein math built for a suppressed appetite, the bone chapter this category keeps skipping, and a full 12-week plan.
BATTLE HARD AFTER 50
Athlete Series
A twelve-week, no-gym-required strength and conditioning protocol for men over 50, built on a five-domain self-assessment — strength, power, engine, carry and grip, and mobility — instead of one overall fitness score.
THE HYBRID ATHLETE PROTOCOL
Athlete Series
Training strength and endurance together after 50 — what the concurrent-training research actually found in adults 50 to 73, a five-domain baseline with no invented score, and a twelve-week system built around one idea: hybrid doesn't mean 50/50.
THE HIGH PROTEIN COOKBOOK FOR ATHLETES OVER 50
Athlete Series
50 recipes I cook around hard training days, recovery days, rest days and race week. Many go in the air fryer or the rice cooker, more than 20 are ready in 30 minutes or less, and every recipe has at least 25 grams of protein per serving, a full-color photo, and nutrition estimated from USDA FoodData Central.
QUICK EASY HEALTHY MEALS
Cookbooks
A 14-day meal plan cookbook for one or two: 25 recipes, each written to be ready in 20 minutes or less, put together into breakfast, lunch and dinner at about 2,000 calories a day. Made with a toaster oven, a rice cooker and one good pan, with two weekly shopping lists, a pantry list, and vegan and gluten-free swaps.
RECOMMENDED READING
Books by other authors that shaped how I train, recover, and think about aging.
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Peter Attia
The definitive framework for medicine 3.0. Health span over life span.
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The Comfort Crisis
Michael Easter
Why voluntary discomfort drives mental and physical adaptation.
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The Oxygen Advantage
Patrick McKeown
Nasal breathing, CO2 tolerance, VO2 max through breath training.
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The Steps: A Memoir
Sylvester Stallone
Stallone on the years between arriving in New York in 1969 and Rocky winning Best Picture. The original underdog story, told by the underdog.
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Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
A former Navy SEAL on getting from a brutal childhood and nearly 300 pounds to SEAL training and beyond. The book behind the 40% rule.
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Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Two Navy SEAL officers on owning every outcome, no excuses. Written for leaders, and it applies to anyone running their own training.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius (trans. Gregory Hays)
A Roman emperor's private notes to himself on discipline, duty, and what is in your control. Stoicism from the source.
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Be IronFit
Don Fink & Melanie Fink
Time-efficient Ironman training for people with jobs and families, with plans from first-timer to competitive.
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The Joe Hippensteel Method
Joe Hippensteel
A full range-of-motion stretching routine from the trainer who brought it to Navy SEALs at Naval Special Warfare in Coronado.
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Ultramarathon Man
Dean Karnazes
Karnazes's memoir of becoming an ultrarunner, and the all-night runs that made his name. Revised and updated edition.
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50/50
Dean Karnazes with Matt Fitzgerald
What he learned running 50 marathons in 50 states on 50 consecutive days in 2006, with training advice for the rest of us.
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Eat & Run
Scott Jurek with Steve Friedman
Seven straight Western States 100 wins on a plant-based diet, with the recipes he ran on.
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North
Scott Jurek with Jenny Jurek
His 2015 run of the full Appalachian Trail in 46 days, 8 hours, told by Scott and his wife Jenny, who crewed it.
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Born to Run
Christopher McDougall
The Tarahumara runners of Mexico's Copper Canyon and the race that brought them together with top American ultrarunners.
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Born to Run 2
Christopher McDougall & Eric Orton
The training follow-up, written with coach Eric Orton.
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