#414 ‒ Resistance training as we age: optimizing exercise selection and training intensity for muscle growth, function, and injury risk management | Jeff Cavaliere, M.S.P.T., C.S.C.S.

Peter Attia is joined by physical therapist and strength coach Jeff Cavaliere for a two-and-a-half-hour working session on resistance training after 40. Cavaliere, who built ATHLEAN-X after years spent rehabbing and training professional athletes, argues that the central mistake midlife lifters make is treating training volume as free, and lays out how to balance reps in reserve against training to failure instead. From there the conversation goes muscle by muscle — deltoids, triceps, biceps, forearms, chest, abs, back, legs, and calves — with attention to the heads and regions that popular programming leaves undertrained. It closes with Cavaliere's "exercise graveyard": the popular lifts he no longer programs, and the lower-risk alternatives he uses in their place.