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Against the Fade — For Men Who Refuse to Fade in Midlife. Something is happening to men in midlife that nobody talks about. Your body is changing. Your friendships are disappearing. Your sense of purpose is slipping. Society stops seeing you. We call it the fade — and this show exists to fight it. Against the Fade is a podcast for men 35-65 navigating the realities of midlife — physical decline, social isolation, emotional silence, and identity loss. Hosted by Jonathan, a 47-year-old personal trainer and health coach who has spent years training men through this exact chapter of life. Strength. Brotherhood. Defiance. A Second Summit Podcast.
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Update frequency:
every 12 days
Average audio length:
27 minutes
English
United States
23 episodes
since Feb. 23, 2026
episodic
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Rand Timmerman is 80. He fought with the 1st Marines at Khe Sanh, practiced law in upstate New York for forty years, and let alcohol get the best of him in his late fifties. He has been sober for more than 12 years. At 72, with an artificial knee, a limp from a leg half an inch shor…
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Dr. Jim Beckwith has heard "Doc, I'm getting old" from the exam chair for 35 years. He is also the one doctor who can see your blood vessels without cutting you open. And he has a new book out Positively Not Old: Mindset and Longevity Habits for Aging well
In this episode: what your eyes show a…
Tony Medrano did his first Ironman at 48, six weeks after a car left him with one working arm. At 55 he says he is in the best shape of his life. He runs an AI and peptide company, so in this conversation we sort what actually moves the needle in midlife from foundations to optimization.
What y…
Michael Bovarnick was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer at 59. He went twenty years cancer free. Then it came back, and this time it had spread. In this episode you will learn what a PSA number actually means and what makes one a problem, why some doctors stop testing after fifteen years a…
If your workouts stopped working, it’s probably not effort. It’s that you’ve been training in one gear. This Straight Sets episode breaks down block training, the simple way men over 40 rotate focus so nothing fades in a corner they forgot about.
In this episode:
• Why the disciplined gu…
Every month brings a new diet and a new wall of supplements. For a midlife man who just wants to feel good and stay strong, the noise is deafening. Meridan Zerner has spent 30 years cutting through it.
A registered dietitian, sports nutrition specialist, and 25-year veteran of Dallas’s Cooper C…
You have seen the video. The one exercise everybody should be doing, the move you are secretly missing. We all feel that pull. Here is the truth underneath it: the thing you are missing is almost never an exercise. It is a pattern.
In this Straight Set you will learn:
The six movement pat…
Show Notes
Most of us in midlife reach for the fix last and sacrifice sleep first. Dr. Kirk Parsley spent a career proving we have it backwards. Kirk earned his trident as a Navy SEAL at 19, left the teams, and came back years later as their doctor. What he found treating the fittest men on the…
You learned how to be a man by watching one, and quietly copying him. Somewhere along the line the camera turned around. Now we’re the men younger guys are watching, whether we signed up for it or not.
This solo episode makes the case that the work we do in midlife on our health, our marriages,…
Most of us are waiting for permission. To relax, to take the risk, to finally live the life we keep telling ourselves we’ll get to once we retire, once the kids are grown, once we hit the number. Tripp Lanier calls it the finish line that keeps moving, and he’s spent more than twenty years coaching…
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