Sick of Your Dad Bod? Try This Workout Program.

BUILDING MUSCLE IS HARD. That goes double when you don’t have all the time in the world to commit to your training plan. And time becomes even more valuable with each passing year, as you add more responsibilities to your plate (and you get older, too). All these responsibilities, from work to commute to kids to more commute, mean that you won’t always have the capacity to work out in the same ways you might have in the past, or how you’d like to if you’re looking to start a new training plan that can stave off the dreaded dad bod.

Cory Gregory gets that. The 45-year-old trainer, who’s also a father of three, has spent years balancing both parenthood and his love of training—and that experience has helped him crack the code on muscle-building after age 40. His first Men’s Health workout program, Shred Your Dad Bod, showcases that philosophy, letting you pack on muscle and strength and redefine your body in just 40 minutes a day, four days a week. All you need is a set of dumbbells and a bench—along with the will to work to fit in these quick training sessions.

The program is built using a trio of key ideas as its guiding principles. Gregory uses high-volume sets to pack in as much work as possible into your training time, rep structures like circuits, supersets, and trisets to make your efforts more efficient, and cardio to drive the gains you’re eager to make.

Want to try the program? You’ll need to become a Men’s Health MVP Premium member for all the details. When you subscribe to the all-access plan, you’ll get the Shred Your Dad bod program—plus streaming workouts on All Out Studio, unlimited MH.com site views, magazines, and more.

Once you’re an MVP member, the program is all yours. But you’re the one who has to make it work for you.

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