THE CURRENT SITUATION

While testosterone was running rampant in your 20-year-old body (making you 10 feet tall and bullet proof), after the age of 30 that powerful hormone is dropping on average, by 1% every single year - and that’s if you’re healthy! For most of us that rapidly declining rate is happening much faster.

4 INCREASE IN FAT STORES

With lower levels of testosterone present, the balance of Estrogen can get out of hand resulting in increased fat storage through specific body regions - particularly through either the abdomen or the chest ‘man boobs’ region.

1 DECREASING SEX DRIVE AND PERFORMANCE ABILITY

Without healthy levels of Testosterone, you will struggle to have much action taking place below the belt.

2 DECREASE IN LEAN MUSCLE

Ample levels of Testosterone is key for your body being able to support an environment required for both new lean muscle development as well as preservation of current lean mass.

3 DECREASED ENERGY LEVELS

Without healthy levels of testosterone, drops in energy and increased recovery times are going to become a regular and gradually worsening trend.

5 LOSS OF MOTIVATION & DRIVE

Testosterone is responsible for feelings of self-motivation, and determination, as well as a healthy level of competitiveness. Low levels are going to have you feeling more like sitting on the bench and watching life from the sidelines instead of being a star player.

6 IRRITABILITY

Feeling low in energy, feeling weaker and less capable in all areas of your life due to declining Testosterone levels often leave men feeling levels of irritability and frustration.

7 DECREASE IN PHYSICAL STRENGTH

With a loss of muscle mass due to declining Testosterone levels, comes a hand-in-hand decline in overall strength levels. Weights you used to lift, or physical tasks you use to perform will slowly become harder and more challenging.

8 INCREASED VISIBLE SIGNS OF AGING

Low levels of Testosterone comes hand-in-hand with an increased rate of typical visible markers of aging i.e dull skin, increased wrinkles.

CAN YOU BRING BACK LOST TESTOSTERONE LEVEL?

In a word – Yes! And that’s exactly what we work to do with every one of our Tailored Fit Alpha clients. Improving a client’s test levels naturally (to a range good enough to substantially turn back the clock & improve their physiques) is based on 3 things – optimizing, maximizing and eliminating.

Adopting key lifestyle practices, nutritional approaches, and specific training approaches to act as powerful precursors to your own body’s testosterone production capability and total test production output.

Just as its important to increase a client’s testosterone production, making sure the testosterone they’re producing remains ‘free’ test. Often testosterone will get ‘bound up’ in the body and not able to fully deliver all the physique and health benefits that it offers. Following specific prescribed recovery protocols, circadian rhythm considerations, and specific nutritional approaches, will help maximize the functions of the test you’re producing.

There are some key absolute Test-Killers out there that most guys are doing on the daily without even realising. We look at identifying these through lifestyle audits and working on an elimination plan with each client.

A Few Things You Can Start Doing Right Now

Alcohol – directly works against your own testosterone production.

Weight train intensely to generate a stimulus, including to test production, but with short enough sessions to allow the increased test to be able to do its thing without recovery issues interfering.

Incorporate correct levels of Omega 3 and Zinc rich foods daily.

Get at least 1 hour of natural sunlight each day to naturally have testosterone production kick into gear.

Bodyfat—an enzyme in fat tissue converts testosterone to estrogen. That’s one reason flab can lower your testosterone. Increased estrogen is also why overweight guys can develop man boobs.

Aim to establish consistent sleep routines to decreases SHGB levels (the hormone that negatively binds your testosterone up and prevents from it doing all its good things for you)

Meet Johannes Young - one of Tailored Fit Alpha’s many ‘transformation success’ stories. In just 20 weeks Jo completely transformed not only his physique, but state of mind as well. Going from being a heartbroken pre-Type 2 diabetic to a fitness model and even becoming a Tailored Fit Alpha success ambassador!

This is Jo’s story in his own words .. his struggle, his success…

May 23rd, 2020 marked a seriously low point. I found myself driving in the dead of night not knowing what the next day was going to look like. All I did know was that I was coming home; home to my family that I hadn’t spoken to in over 2 years. Sure, I wasn’t going through a messy divorce, I wasn’t even married, nor did I have kids or a shared mortgage, but suffering isn’t a competition. Feeling low or rock bottom isn’t a comparative feat. As Attachment Specialist, Adam Lane Smith says, “The first thing a man should do after a breakup, is to pick up a barbell and do some sets”. I did just that, and more.

I reconnected with lost relationships, friends who had tried communicating with me during the social ‘blackout’ of 2 years, and with my family. I narrowed my field of focus to the mundane, steady, and yet purposeful 9 to 5. But most importantly, I built a goal in my mind. A goal that was completely and wholly under my control. That goal was to transform my body from being a pre-Type 2 Diabetic to sub 10% body fat.

Why did I choose this goal specifically? Because my success was going to be entirely determined upon my adherence to the process and forming/sticking to habits that are conducive to the outcome. I could have chosen other goals; climb the academic ladder or try earning a million dollars but these types of goals require external influence to some extent in order to achieve. In the end, the choice was simple - I wanted to take back full control over my results and therefore my life. My external physical body was to become a reflection of the internal transformation I was about to undertake as a man.

It turned out a lot of the struggle during the transformative phase I faced was not in the realms of the training and the nutrition. Instead, it was the mental health transformation required. It was finding solutions to the sometimesoverwhelming waves of intrusive thoughts, feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, regret, guilt, shame and a whole host of other feelings and emotions that I was covering over from my previous life. The diet and the training were for the most part the easy parts - not because I had an expert coach, or that my plan was all designed and laid out for me

(trust me I couldn’t have done it without these) but because the training and diet had clear, black and white solutions which simply needed execution to succeed. The associated thought processes however are not so cut and dry. I don’t have the answer for “how to deal with feeling worthlessness” or “why do I feel so lonely?” I know anecdotally things that pointed me in the right direction were talking to trusted, empathetic friends, paid therapy sessions and listening to podcasts about post-relationship issues similar to what I was facing.

In times of great strife, all throughout known history, men have needed a strong, focused and singular goal to aim towards. The more singular the purpose, the greater the victory. Think of all the wars fought, empires built, technologies created, all were formed out of the need to solve a particular problem specific to the solution. I didn’t need to change the world or cure cancer to gain control of my feelings and live again. I just needed to lose a bit of fat. So I did the work with that single solution.

- Jo