Optimal Protocols To Build Muscle & Increase Strength After 40
Mark Bell's Power Project
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to build muscle and increase strength after 40? Do you have to give up heavy lifts like squats and deadlifts as you get older?
In this episode of Mark Bell’s Power Project Podcast, hosts Mark Bell and Nsima Inyang discuss the best ways to train for longevity and health. They talk about how to keep training hard without hurting your body by using smart training methods and listening to your body. They also share their thoughts on how to stay strong and feel good for years to come.
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Chapters:
0:00 - #1 Exercise for Men 40+
0:41 - Stop Lifting Heavy After 40?
1:51 - How Powerlifting Wrecked Mark Bell
2:55 - Dangers of PEDs As You Age
3:34 - Why John Cena Can Barely Walk
4:45 - John Cena’s Legendary Career
8:39 - A Pro Wrestler's REAL Schedule
10:07 - Don’t Let Age Define You
12:42 - You're Doing This Wrong
14:11 - The Most DANGEROUS Deadlift
17:23 - REAL Reason For Cena’s Back Pain
19:00 - Are Heavy Lifts Bad After 40?
22:28 - Squatting Without Pain
25:25 - Exercises to Stop Doing
28:58 - How to Get Lean & Eat What You Love
31:36 - The Invention of the Burpee
32:33 - You Can't Get Your Youth Back
35:15 - #1 Mistake Athletes Make
38:28 - Best Equipment for Better Results
40:09 - Stronger at 50 Than 30?
42:42 - Your Best Lifting Days Are Ahead
43:08 - Deadlifts vs. Grandkids
45:54 - Finding a Doctor Who Helps
48:27 - Is Stu McGill Wrong on Deadlifts?
51:51 - Secret to Avoiding Injury
55:10 - Training for the Future
57:53 - How Mark Bell Avoided Burnout
1:02:30 - Listen to Your Body to Avoid Injury
1:04:30 - The Hottest New Supplement
1:07:47 - The Lifter's Fountain of Youth
1:11:42 - The Secret to Effortless Strength
1:14:12 - Must-Do Exercises As You Age
1:19:16 - The Best Way to Train for Life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Think about, you know, things to do over 40 or things to do over 50. The more dangerous something is |
| 0:05.2 | probably almost the better. What I'm talking about puts on way more force than anything you can do in |
| 0:11.1 | the gym. And that would be eccentrics. That would be stopping your body, trying to sprint and then |
| 0:15.6 | stop your body. Running uphill is really great for a lot of people to get started with being able to |
| 0:20.5 | produce some force and be able to maybe move faster, strength in the hamstrings, glutes, calves, and so on. Some people will say deadlifting is bad for you or squats are bad for you. But that doesn't make any sense. Gravity is a level of a force. Can you bend down and come up? Can you squat down and come up? I just don't think that as |
| 0:38.1 | you get older, that you should just negate something because of, oh, I'm 40, I can't do that. I'm 50. I'm 50. I can't do that. I don't think you should do it. I don't think you should lift heavy. I think you've got to be really careful as you age. Yeah, they said that same thing for training after 30. |
| 0:54.1 | You know? |
| 0:54.7 | But maybe you can. |
| 0:55.6 | Maybe you can. |
| 0:56.6 | It's, it's that same thing for training after 30. |
| 0:54.6 | You know? |
| 0:55.4 | But maybe you can. |
| 0:56.0 | Maybe you can. |
| 0:58.1 | It's an interesting thing. |
| 1:03.6 | We're going to pull up a few videos today, but there's always something. |
| 1:04.3 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:09.3 | Like before I turn 30, I'd have my friends that were in their 30s who would tell me to wait until my 30s. |
| 1:14.2 | I mean, my 30s, there are certain things I've adjusted because I like lifting certain things more, but my, you know, my metric for progression is how does my body feel fighting |
| 1:19.7 | people? |
| 1:20.2 | And I feel better than I did in my 20s. |
| 1:22.8 | So I don't necessarily feel those things. |
| 1:25.0 | How old's Cassio? |
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