Pre-pandemic, I was doing box jumps constantly.

CrossFit, 5-6 days per week, never thought about it. Fast forward to 2024: my coach programmed box jumps and I was humbled by the 16" box.

S i x t e e n inches.

I could barely put together more than one. Lost some shin skin on those bad boys too. Ouch.

I could have rationalized it. Plenty of people would have given me a pass — I was in my mid-forties, this is what happens, be realistic, Alison.

But I knew better, because I can count. It had been about three years since I'd last jumped onto anything.

Power, speed, and spring are some of the first things we lose with age

... if we stop training them.

That last part never makes it into the sentence.

But it's not a given. You keep the capabilities you train.

Now, some things genuinely do change:

→ Slower tissue remodeling
→ Muscle loss and strength loss
→ Changes in mitochondrial function
→ Fewer fast-twitch muscle fibers
→ Stiffer, less elastic connective tissue
→ More soft tissue inflammation

I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But most of those can be attenuated — significantly — by training. They're inputs that change. They are not a guarantee.

What actually changes in midlife is your margin for error.

At 28, you could ignore power, spring, and speed entirely and get away with it for a decade. At 46, you cannot.

The training elements you neglect cost more.

Which brings me to why so many women tell me some version of "the way I used to train isn't effective anymore."

When I audit their training, I see the same thing every time. Huge holes.

Put them back in, and they improve. Every time.

Gone from your training is not the same thing as gone forever.

24" and 30" box jumps are a breeze for me now, at 46. Not because I reversed aging or turned back time. Because I started training big jumps again.

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So ... let's audit your training together. Join me for:

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​A free live training — Monday, September 7 at 12:00pm ET

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We'll go through a training audit live. You'll score your own training log against all nine athletic qualities while we're on the call, see exactly where the holes are and leave knowing what to put back.

It's Labor Day Monday at noon Eastern, so if you can't make it live, register anyway — the replay goes out to every registrant and will be available to watch for a week.

I'm in!

— A

P.S. Untrained and declining can feel identical from the inside. That's the problem. One of them is a ceiling and the other is simply a training gap — and most women have never actually checked which one they're looking at. Monday 9/7, noon ET → register here.

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