Our colleague and BFF, the inimitable Dr Mikki Williden digs Awesome After Forty!
"With decades of experience in strength, fitness, and nutrition, Cliff and Daz focus less on looks or competition and more on building lasting resilience and function. They cover the essentials: smart training that prioritises strength and quality movement, real food nutrition that adapts to your lifestyle, and the often-overlooked pillars of sleep and stress. With down-to-earth advice on injury prevention, chronic pain, and easy self-checks, this book gives everyone the tools to keep performing well and enjoying life for decades to come." https://bit.ly/4p1uO2u
Mikki Williden, PhD
18/11/2025
It's finally here! My co-author, Darren Ellis, MSc, and I are thrilled to announce that our new book, "Awesome After Forty," is officially available for pre-order.
We wrote this book as a direct counter-narrative to the idea that feeling weak, sick, and tired is a normal part of aging. It's not.
This isn't another "grind-harder" manual. It’s the opposite. It’s a practical handbook of easy-to-apply, well-tested methods designed to help you regain and sustain your health and strength in a way that fits your busy life.
We cover the essential pillars: ✅ Smart Strength Training (not just "working out") ✅ Real-Food Nutrition (on autopilot) ✅ Mastering Sleep & Stress
Pre-order your copy at Amazon, Kobo, B&N and all major outlets today! Be the first to read it when it launches on November 25th. https://bit.ly/4p1uO2u
17/11/2025
Trainer, Chef, Coach, and all-round handsome man and legend Scott Gooding on Awesome After Forty:
"Cliff and Darren’s book is an inspiring and genuinely helpful guide for anyone wanting to stay fit, healthy, and energised beyond forty. Their insights are practical, grounded in real experience and science, and delivered with honesty and warmth. I have known Cliff for many years, and he is living proof of his own message — he truly walks the walk as well as talks the talk — and this authenticity shines through. It’s a refreshing take on what it means to age well, not just physically, but with purpose and vitality.
I’m inspired to lift my game!" https://bit.ly/4p1uO2u
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15/11/2025
Our buddy Art had some kind words about our new book, 'Awesome After Forty'!
AA40 is a 'how-to' guide for people over 40 to be healthy, happy, strong, and resilient.
This book is a direct counter-narrative to the idea that feeling weak, sick, and tired is a normal part of aging. It's not.
It’s not another “grind-harder” manual. It’s the opposite.
It’s a practical handbook of easy-to-apply, well-tested methods designed to help you regain and sustain your health and strength in a way that fits your busy life.
We cover the 'big rocks' of health:
✅ Smart Strength Training (not just "working out")
✅ Effective (not tedious 😵💫) approaches to Cardio
✅ Real-Food Nutrition (on autopilot)
✅ Mastering Sleep & Stress
We were honoured to have the great Dr Eric Helms write the Foreword for our latest book, Awesome After Forty!
Eric is a legend, Daz is a legend. I was there for it.... 😂
Awesome After Forty is a practical, 'how-to' guide for achieving health and strength after 40.
This isn't a grind-harder book; it's a be-smarter-and-be-happier one! https://bit.ly/4p1uO2u
11/11/2025
New review added to Nutripaedia: Does Omega-3 Supplementation Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes?
[Includes Audio Summary!] https://bit.ly/49fkn6D
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11/11/2025
Here's another time-effective workout from my 'HIT Made Better' program at Coached by Cliff.
Check out Day 1 in my feed a few days back.
Darren Ellis and I are about to release "Awesome After Forty," a practical 'how-to' guide to being strong, healthy, and happy after 40, with plenty more tips on simple strategies for training, lifestyle, and nutrition.
And you can 'Train With Me' from only $47 NZD a month here: https://bit.ly/42xsQi0
11/11/2025
I did one of my undergrad quals in naturopathy... and along with being a Registered Clinical Nutritionist, and Accredited Sports Nutritionist, I'm also a Registered Naturopath & Medical Herbalist.
And if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times; Naturopaths need to embrace the scientific method and stop with the contrarian conspiracies.
I'm a scientist with a PhD in nutrition, and I don't think there's any conflict between holism (treating the whole person) and treatments guided by high-quality scientific evidence.
Naturopaths need to reject the pseudoscientific garbage of things like Hair Testing, Live Blood Analysis, and other unproven or disproven tests and interventions.
Our first precept is to 'Do No Harm'.
And yet, unreliable or disproven tests harm our clients...
They harm their wallets...
They harm their psyche by scaring them about 'problems' that may not even exist.
S**t or get off the pot. If naturopaths want to achieve the credibility they crave, they need to step up and understand evidence-based practice.
And the best naturopaths do this.
11/11/2025
My new '4-Week Healthy Body Reset' combines the ‘Don’t Die' program, designed to help people get on the right track to live longer and healthier, and the 'Healthy Shoulders & Hips' program to address common postural issues and weaknesses.
Build life-changing habits to help you eliminate and avoid pain and live healthier for longer! https://bit.ly/473h7Zk
Online Programs.Inspiring Books. Learn the strategies and tactics of health, strength, happiness, and life & purpose with online, supported programs, and books & ebooks from Dr Cliff Harvey. Programs → → Books Online Programs 4-Week Healthy Body Reset Don’t Worry Die, Be Happy (& Healthy!) The...
10/11/2025
Workouts don't need to be long to be effective.
This is a workout from my HIT Made Better program in 'Coached by Cliff.'
It takes the 'Heavy Duty' style of training and modifies it not to require all-out failure all the time (but you can still max out!) and adds backoff sets to increase volume for hypertrophy. Simple. Time-effective.
This is just one example of the many ways that you can train.
I outline a range of approaches for the time-pressured Over 40 in our new book "Awesome After Forty" available for pre-order now and released on Nov 25! https://bit.ly/4p1uO2u
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Cliff Harvey PhD, DipNat, DipFit is an author, speaker, practitioner, & researcher.
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Find out more: www.cliffharvey.com
Founder of the Holistic Performance Institute and Nutrition Store Online. Co-founder of Nuzest and Reconditioned.Me. Former IAWA Weightlifting World Champ.
"I've been helping people to live healthier, happier lives, and to perform better since starting in clinical practice (way back...) in the late 1990s. Over this time in practice I have been privileged to work with many Olympic, professional, Commonwealth and other high performing athletes.
I've also worked with many people to overcome the effects of chronic and debilitating health conditions. Along the way I've founded or co-founded many successful businesses in the health, fitness and wellness space."
My WHY?
More important than who I am, or what I do is WHY I do it.
I realised early in practice that this 'Why' explains so much more about us than any definition of career, vocation or skillset.
My WHY, quite simply, is to help others to learn simple, and effective methods to be healthier and happier. This may seem overly simplistic but the very best ideas are usually the simplest. Health and happiness, to my mind, are flip-sides of the same coin. A healthy body is a happy body, a healthy mind is a happy mind, and a healthy spirit is a happy spirit...and vice versa.
I help people avieve health and happiness through nutrition planning and education, and life & purpose success coaching.
My Cred.
Registered Clinical Nutritionist
PhD in Nutrition (AUT University) - focus on ketosis, ketogenesis, and individual responses to diet.
Naturopathic Diploma (NCNZ)
Diploma in Fitness Training (AUT University)
Psych-K Advanced Facilitation
Reiki (Level lll)
Certificate in Scientific Core Conditioning (CHEK Institute)
IAWA Weightlifting World Champion 2004 & 2007
IAWA Weightlifting World Record Holder
IAWA International Vice President 2003-2007
My Areas.
Low Carbohydrate, ketogenic and 'Carbohydrate Appropriate' nutrition.
Mind-body integrative health care
I was one of the very first practitioners to begin prescribing and working with low-carb, high-fat (LCHF), ketogenic, and lower-carb, higher-protein diets in the late 1990s.
My current research centres on MCTs, keto-induction, keto-flu, and finding appropriate carbohydrate intake for individuals based on their metabolic state, activity and ethno-genetic factors.
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