I'm 30 days out from the hardest training month of my life. Here's exactly what I'm doing to prepare. If you're a man over 40, your body's changing. There's so many things you could and should be doing when it comes to optimizing the way you look, the way you feel, and the way you perform. This podcast is going to walk you through my exact thought process and step-by-step analysis of what I do to prepare to be the best that I can possibly be

before I head to Switzerland where I just hired one of the top Olympic coaches in Switzerland to train me and my family for 30 days.

Hey everybody, I'm Benfico. If you don't know me, I'm the owner and creator of muscle intelligence.

I was a professional bodybuilder for many years and now I coach men over 40 to look, feel,

and perform at the best. Regardless of constraints or goals, we are crushing goals. Over the last

six months, my business and family have taken the lead and I, to be honest, my health and fitness,

my health is always a priority, but my fitness is sort of taken a back seat. I don't train every day or I hadn't trained every day. I was doing a lot of mobility work,

which is great. My mobility is fantastic. But I was losing strength. I was losing muscle.

So concepts and principles are vast, right? They're vast reaching, meaning there's a small number of them that cover all different areas.

So if I want to build muscle or if I want to lose fat or if I want to train like an athlete,

it still comes down to some basic foundational things you need to be able to do as a human to ultimately perform at your best.

So in this video, in this podcast, I'm going to walk you through exactly how I'm thinking about

making sure I can go there and be operating at my absolute best for 30 days.

So, and with no specific order, because everyone's starting in very, very different places.

The one thing that's extremely important to me is sort of this double-edged sword of mobility and stability or mobility and strength.

And so here's what that means. I spend a lot of time making sure that I can get into every position that I'm ever going to find myself in. So as an example,

if I'm doing hard training with this gentleman in Switzerland, there's a very strong chance that I'm

going to be sprinting. So I need to get in really far hip extension like knee way behind hip

and not strain my groin or not strain my abdominals. Great, we have to train that. We can't expect

to go from zero to 100 in a small amount of time. I'm definitely going to find myself at the bottom of a

squat or lunge where my ankle is in full dorssey flexion and my knee is in full knee flexion.

So I have to train that.

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