From the desk of Forest Vance, MS Human Movement, RYT 200, Former Pro Football Player

Does this sound like you?

You still think of yourself as an athlete or a lifter, whether you're training hard right now, getting back into it, or just staying as active as you can.
Your body doesn't quite move like it used to. Stiff hips, a locked-up upper back, a core that doesn't feel like it's holding you together the way it once did.
Whether you're mid-workout or just moving through your day, you can feel the small leaks: less power, less control, more compensation.
You've looked at yoga, but the "find your center," soft-focus studio version isn't built for someone with your background.

If any of that sounds familiar—you’re in the right place.

I've spent most of my life training.

I played professional football. I've spent decades lifting weights and training with kettlebells.

And as I've gotten older, I've also gone deeper into yoga, mobility, breathwork, and different forms of movement training.

Along the way, I became fascinated with something:

Centuries ago, Indian wrestlers, martial practitioners, warrior-ascetics, and fighters developed their bodies through combinations of demanding bodyweight movements, yoga postures, breath control, and rotational training.

They performed movements like dands — the predecessor to what many people today call the Hindu pushup.

They performed baithaks — Hindu squats used to build powerful legs, mobile hips, conditioning, and work capacity.

They trained breath and body control through yoga.

And they swung heavy gadas and maces around their bodies, developing tremendous shoulder, trunk, grip, and rotational strength.

That idea stuck with me.

Because those are exactly the qualities many modern lifters slowly lose.

We get stronger at a handful of movements...

...while our hips get tighter.

Our upper backs stop rotating.

We stop moving through unfamiliar positions.

We rarely train loaded rotation.

And "core training" gets reduced to a couple sets of crunches or planks at the end of a workout.

So I started asking myself:

What if we took the principles behind old-school yogi-warrior physical training and rebuilt them for the modern athlete over 40?

Now Introducing...

This is a fast-moving training protocol that combines elements inspired by yoga and traditional physical culture with modern kettlebell and mace training.

Here's what you get:

Just 8 minutes a day, for 4 weeks, structured in progressive sequences
Walk-through videos plus written guides so you know exactly what to do
Focused breathwork integrated with bracing and movement
Athletic yoga flows designed to train usable mobility, not just passive flexibility
Old-school bodyweight strength using dands, baithaks, bridges, and other movements
Loaded rotational training using a kettlebell OR steel mace
Core stability work including anti-extension and lateral stability
Joint-friendly programming designed to complement lifting, kettlebells, running, or your sport
Designed specifically for athletes and lifters 40+ who want to keep training hard without ignoring the physical qualities that become increasingly important with age

For a limited time, I'm also including the digital version of my Amazon best-selling book, The CORE Kettlebell Challenge, 100% free with your purchase today.

Once your midsection can actually hold up under load, this is where you put it to work. Over 40 days, you'll train through a complete kettlebell program built to translate your new stability into real, measurable strength and output.

This is one of my highest-rated books on Amazon, and it pairs naturally with what you just built in Iron Monk Core: the shield first, then the output that shield was built to support.

This book sells for $16.49 on Amazon. You get the digital version 100% free when you order on this page today.

What the Research Says About Core Stability and Structural Health

Mayo Clinic research notes that stronger core muscles are linked to improved back pain outcomes and a lower risk of injury from poor posture and muscle strain.

A 2021 review published in the Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology found that core stability training measurably reduced pain intensity and functional disability in people dealing with chronic low back issues, and outperformed rest or minimal intervention alone.

Separate clinical research on core stabilization exercise has shown improvements in balance, proprioception, and trunk muscle thickness, the kind of deep, structural support Iron Monk Core is built to train.

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Build an Armored Core, Restore Lost Mobility, and Develop Rotational Strength — in Just 8 Minutes a Day

👋 I’m Forest Vance, and I created this for people like us.

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