You can be the hardest worker on-site and still lose your edge if your system’s running empty. Because what builds endurance in your 20s, can burn you out in your 40s and 50s.
The truth?
Hard work builds things, not bodies.
Without recovery, the same drive that gets the job done can slowly take you apart.
So, here’s the question for this week:
Where does your body show the cost of all those years of pushing through, your back, your knees, your sleep, or your patience?
Drop it below 👇
Because noticing the signs is how you start taking your strength back.
07/11/2025
You can move mountains on site…
but can’t sit through dinner without feeling every kilo of the week.
That’s not weakness.
That’s wear and tear with no maintenance plan.
The truth is, work drains, training sustains.
Your body is the one tool you can’t replace and the only one that needs a system, not just grit.
06/11/2025
Here’s the thing, step counts don’t tell the whole story.
You can walk all day and still wake up sore, stiff, and running on fumes.
Real fitness isn’t just movement.
It’s maintenance.
It’s the strength to lift, the mobility to move well,
and the recovery to do it all again tomorrow, without breaking down.
Your body doesn’t need another fitness tracker.
It needs a system that actually makes those steps mean something.
05/11/2025
If your body could talk, what would it say after a typical work week?
👉 “Thanks, mate”
or
👉 “We need to talk”
Most blokes don’t listen until the body starts shouting, the back that seizes up mid-lift, the knees that bark every morning, the brain fog that hits by Friday.
But here’s the truth: your body’s been talking for a while.
Fatigue and failure sound the same at first, until one turns into the other.
You don’t need to overhaul everything. You just need to learn what your body’s trying to say before it breaks down.
Want to know how to spot the difference between fatigue and failure, and what to do about it?
Check out comments below for the Contractors Future Fit Pod for this week’s recovery and reset tips.
05/11/2025
A few days ago, I was at work helping a chap who had rolled out of bed one morning after a 60-hour work week and had felt every joint protest at once.
It wasn’t injury pain, just the slow, grinding reminder that something wasn’t working the way it used to.
He had done what most blokes do: told himself to toughen up.
Add another anti-inflame', hit the morning with a hot shower and workout harder.
But no matter how much effort he threw at it, he wasn’t bouncing back the way he used to.
That day, when I was showing him how to drench cattle beasts without loading his back, I caught myself saying,
“You’re not failing the plan, the plan’s failing you.”
I needed him to know that his body wasn't broken.
It was the system, the old model of “just push harder” that no longer fit the body he was living in.
To rebuild rather than break down is backbone of Future Fit: training.
Traditional training fails men after 40
There is a difference between fatigue and failure
We do need to train around stress, not against it
It is important to restore before load
Watch now, Your body’s not broken. The system Is.
Then if you want to read more, check the comments below for the full story in my latest blog.
04/11/2025
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03/11/2025
You’re not broken. You’re just running a young man’s program on a mature engine!
You’ve still got drive. You’ve still got grit.
But the system you’re using to look after your body? It’s outdated.
Fitness plans built for 25-year-olds don’t work for men who’ve already logged decades of load, weather, and responsibility.
This isn’t about slowing down. It’s about training smarter, for the stage you’re in, not the one you left behind.
02/11/2025
When did you first start feeling like your body wasn’t keeping up the way it used to?
For me, it wasn’t one big injury, it was the creaking joints on a Saturday morning after a full week’s work.
That moment of standing up beside the bed, feeling every bit of load from the week before, and realizing… this wasn’t just tiredness anymore.
Was it the same for you?
Or did it hit after one big strain, a back tweak, a shoulder pull, a job that finally took more out of you than it should have?
Most of the blokes I talk to say it didn’t happen overnight. It was one small compromise at a time.
👉 Drop your answer below, when did you first notice the shift?
Because awareness is the first step to rebuilding capacity, not just coping.
31/10/2025
Ego strength fades.
Legacy strength lasts.
Train for the moments that matter, the ones that remind you why you built the strength in the first place.
30/10/2025
Congrats on your new max bench!
Now let me know how that helps when you can’t get off the floor to play Lego with your grandkids.
Strength isn’t just about what you can lift,
It’s about what you can live.
Train for the moments that matter, not just the ones that look good on paper.
29/10/2025
What’s one thing you want your grandkids to see you doing at 70, not just hear stories about?
For some, it’s still riding the bike.
For others, it’s climbing a hill, swinging a hammer, or chasing the little ones around the paddock.
The truth is, the body you build (or neglect) now decides which stories you’ll live and which you’ll only tell.
So… what’s yours?
👇 Drop it in the comments, what do you want to still be doing when you hit 70?
29/10/2025
The home maintenance working bee over the long weekend definitely qualified as a true “Labour Day” effort! 💪
Over the years I’ve learned it pays to use that extra day to get ahead of the spring growth, pruning, mowing, and tackling the early weeds before they turn into summer monsters.
And when the body’s done its fair share, Not Now James meals are an absolute lifesaver, wholesome, delicious, and exactly what a hard-working weekend deserves.
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Sausage, mash, veggies & rich brown onion gravy — comforting, hearty and gluten free!
Perfect for a quick, tasty meal anytime.
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Ever since Barbara has been helping people recover from their sports events she has been passionate about training preparation.
Barbara has devoted hours and hours, honing her skills and gaining knowledge and tools, all with the goal of helping people improve their physical performance not just for their next event but for life.
She's created the Event Ready Bodies programme and gathered a dedicated and qualified team of sports therapists to support ANY BODY to train successfully for an event, improve their experience and maximize their longevity in their chosen activity. She knows we operate in an information rich era, however appreciates, for many, the problem is there is so much advice out there, it's a challenge to know what information will make the difference.
Barbara says "there is information now to prepare at a whole new level and it's been my ambition to create an environment that makes both the information and it's application accessible, logical and easy to apply"
Event Ready Bodies is a supported process that shows beginner, improving, injured or competitive people how to prepare; shows them how to integrate the concepts into their daily practice and builds a fraternity around them so they can train for a better body and a better life.
Barb Kelly, Cara Leyten, James Harvey pictured above
