“Ben Shephard’s Over-50 Fitness Formula – And Why It Actually Works”
Whether or not you’re presently in your fourth, fifth or sixth decade, you don’t get a physique like Ben Shephard’s by chance. Our June cowl star has been placing the work in, constantly – and the outcomes communicate for themselves.
Fifty days earlier than his 50th birthday, the TV presenter set himself an formidable problem: to succeed in peak health – bodily, mentally, emotionally – whereas matching the form he was within the final time he appeared on the Males’s Well being cowl, again in 2012.
Granted, packing on lean muscle has proved a bit tougher than it was aged 37. ‘But I knew that if I put the time in, I would get the value tenfold down the line. I have always focused on the outcome,’ he says. And the result is undeniably spectacular.
‘I think I value the condition I’m in now greater than in 2012,’ he says. ‘I’ve acquired extra lean muscle, that’s for positive. I believe my physique fats is a bit bit increased than it was then. Again then it was most likely single figures, and I believe I’m about 10.5% to 10.8% now – which is extraordinary while you suppose I’m 13 years older.’
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How Ben Shephard Constructed His Physique at 50
Coach Steve Coleman has been working with the presenter for over a decade. The important thing to their pair’s success? ‘Consistency, balance and banter,’ says Coleman.
Heavy, progressive resistance coaching is the inspiration of Shephard’s work within the health club, combining compound lifts with isolation workouts to focus on each power and muscle development.
Different techniques he employs embody eccentric loading – specializing in the muscle-lengthening portion of an train, such because the reducing a part of a biceps curl – and drop units, through which you carry out an train to failure, scale back the weights, then go once more.
However don’t fear: you don’t want to grasp what all of which means to ensure that his plan to be efficient. You simply must observe Coleman’s pointers.
Within the six-week programme Coleman has offered – primarily based on the work he does with Shephard – you’ll prepare 5 days every week, with two scheduled relaxation days. Every exercise is specified by an easy-to-follow format, with coach’s notes to information you thru.
You will want entry to a totally kitted-out health club. However even should you don’t have the time, capability or inclination to observe all of Shephard’s exercises to a tee, you’ll be able to nonetheless get fitter and powerful with two or three exercises every week.
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Scarlett Wrench is the Senior Editor at Males’s Well being UK.
With greater than 12 years’ expertise as a well being and life-style editor, Scarlett has a eager curiosity in new science, rising tendencies, psychological well-being, and meals and vitamin. For Males’s Well being, she has carried out in depth analysis into areas reminiscent of wellness within the office, male physique picture, the paradoxes of recent masculinity, and psychological well being amongst school-age boys.
Her phrases have additionally appeared in Ladies’s Well being, Runner’s World and The Sunday Occasions.
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