Can I Build Muscle After 35?

“Can You Build Muscle After 35?” The short answer is YES YOU CAN. I’ve done it myself and I have Online Coaching clients, busy people over 35, who’ve done it too. In fact, you can build muscle at any age.

When you’re over 35, the trick to building muscle is to find the right balance of hard training and rest. You need to challenge yourself progressively, increasing your weights as you get stronger. Put in the work with dumbbells, barbells, and cables a few times a week.

Building muscle mass after 30 isn’t hard, but it does take finding the right strength-training program and being consistent with it. One of the many changes that come with getting older is a loss of muscle mass. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, these losses typically begin after a person turns the big 3-0.

Foam rolling, dynamic activation drills and various “alignment” exercises can be useful at certain times and for certain individuals. But a lot of people are doing this stuff simply because they’re copying what everyone else is doing, rather than because it’s actually helping their workout. Building muscle after 40 is not easy.

It’s not like the ability of your muscles to adapt and grow suddenly stops once you hit 40. In fact, if you’re currently out of shape and unfit, you’ll see relatively rapid gains in muscle mass when you start lifting weights.

You can certainly gain strength and build muscle as you age, but it does get harder. In many cases, you’re doing well simply to keep what you have. While I was Googling around the other day, I came across an interesting research paper called: