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Practical guidance from the Alloy West LA team, written for real training questions after 40.
Getting stronger · 5 min read · October 7, 2026
Not quite a class and not quite one on one. Small group personal training gives adults over 40 their own program and real coaching in sessions capped at six people, at a price that makes training for the long term realistic. Here's how it works and who it's right for.
Nick ValentineRead the post 
Body composition · 6 min read · August 28, 2026
The scale weighs everything you walked in with. After 40 what you lose matters more than how much, and protein, a modest deficit and resistance training are what decide it.
Coach Nick, Director of TrainingRead the post 
Nutrition · 6 min read · August 28, 2026
The rule is correct and it stops being useful the moment you accept it. Where the deficit comes from, what the calories are made of, and why two people eating the same number end up in different bodies.
Coach Nick, Director of TrainingRead the post 
Training · 5 min read · August 28, 2026
Squat, hinge, push, pull, carry, rotate. Why Alloy programs strength through the patterns life actually uses, and what that changes for a member coming back from an injury.
Coach Nick, Director of TrainingRead the post 
Consistency · 6 min read · August 28, 2026
Half of all new gym members quit between weeks 6 and 14. The ones who do not are not more disciplined than you, they built five systems that made showing up the easy option.
Coach Nick, Director of TrainingRead the post Who we write for
Our members are strongest in their 50s and 60s, and we coach members into their 70s and 80s. If any of this sounds like you, these posts are written for you.
The majority of our members. Most arrive after years away from lifting and want to feel capable again: carrying luggage, keeping up on a hike, getting off the floor without thinking about it.
Bone and muscle become a priority in your 40s and beyond. We coach progressive strength work, at a load that suits you, with someone watching every set.
Desk job, kids, a decade of meaning to start again. Your first weeks are built off a movement assessment, not off what anyone else in the room is lifting.
Knees, backs, shoulders and past surgeries. Bring what your doctor or physio has told you and we program around it.
Roughly a third of our members. Structured programming, real progression, and a coach who knows what you lifted last month.
We have deep experience coaching well past retirement. Staying strong is what keeps the rest of life open.
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Meet the Director, take an InBody scan, go through a movement and injury assessment and try a coached session. Then decide if Alloy is right for you.
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