What Working With Dr. John Spencer Ellis Actually Looks Like for a Man Over 40
Most coaching descriptions tell you what a program includes. Fewer tell you what actually happens. So here's the walkthrough: what a man brings, what gets measured, what changes first, and why the order matters more than the effort. Week one: nobody gives you a plan The first thing that happens is not a workout. It's a comprehensive intake — health status, training and injury history, sleep patterns, stress load, alcohol intake, medications, and the actual shape of your week. Not the week you intend to have. The one you have. Then bloodwork guidance alongside your own physician : blood pressure, lipids, fasting glucose and HbA1c, hs-CRP, thyroid, morning testosterone, vitamin D. This is the step men want to skip, and it's the one that changes the most. Because the markers that matter most produce no symptoms at all. A man can be years into meaningful cardiovascular deterioration and feel entirely ordinary — right up until he doesn't. There's also functional...