The Problem With Training After 30: Sonny Webster

👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business 🏋🏼‍♂️ Online Coaching: https://www.jamessmithacademy.com Sonny Webster's YouTube Channel –    / @sonnywebstergb   Sonny Webster On Instagram –   / sonnywebstergb   Sonny Webster joins James Smith for an honest conversation about what training, money and ambition actually look like once you hit your 30s. A British Olympic weightlifter who competed at Rio 2016, Sonny is now a fitness entrepreneur building global training platforms, and he doesn't hold back on the realities of optimisation culture, the TRT debate, or why his double WADA ban turned his life upside down despite never knowingly taking anything. Chapters: 00:00 The Testosterone Debate and Sonny's WADA Ban 00:57 Why Training After 30 Hits Like a Brick Wall 02:10 Olympic Lifting for Longevity, Not Platforms 04:15 Going Sober and the Death of the Wild Weekend 05:07 Peptides, TRT and the World of Optimisation 06:26 Why GLP-1s Make You Hate Alcohol 07:50 Grabbing the Low-Hanging Fruit First 08:32 Becoming a Slave to Your Wearables 12:24 How Dubai Changed Sonny's Physique 16:22 Tax-Free Living and the Money That Evaporates 18:45 Going Back to the UK and Embracing London 20:54 Why Your Friendship Circle Shrinks in Your 30s 23:31 Sonny's Goals: Minimal Effective Dose 26:27 Body, Business, Relationships, You Can't Have All Three 28:05 The Power of a Business Coach and Cutting the Noise 30:16 Why Paying for Something Makes You Actually Do It 31:00 Why Free Codes Create the Worst Clients 32:32 No Transformation Without the Pain 34:48 As Close to 50 as I Am to 23 35:34 Testosterone, the Enhanced Games and Masters Lifting 38:28 The Track Car Logic of TRT 40:34 The Double Standards of Optimisation 41:31 Are We the Peak Optimisation Generation? 43:34 Relationships, Freedom and Finding Hannah 44:56 Having Kids and Knowing When You've Got "Enough" 49:30 The Fair Points Podcast and Missed Opportunities 51:52 Taboo Topics and Creating a Safe Space 52:36 Building a Legacy in Dubai 56:14 Speed Cameras, Statham and Going Bald Gracefully 59:14 The Russian Banya Near-Death Experience 01:01:45 Scaling The Lifting Zone and the Clothing Brand 01:03:09 Wrapping Up