10 Reasons Most Men Stay Down After 40 - How I Came Back From Rock Bottom

My name's Travis Ortmayer. I spent my adult life chasing the title of strongest man in the world, and it cost me my family, my friends, my career and my house.

On January 5, 2016 I started over from a storage unit with my old equipment and two feet. Ten years later I'm back on the competition floor at 330 pounds - and this is in my hand every morning.

Here are the ten reasons I got back.

I'd been under a bar since I was eleven, and on day one of starting over none of it helped.

There's no transformation reel. There's one honest day, then another, then a thousand more - most of them boring, none of them optional.

Ten years on it's still the same unglamorous stack: train, eat, sleep, take my minerals, repeat.

Most men my age are told the strong years are behind them, and most of them believe it.

Nobody sees this lift. They see the ten years of ordinary mornings that made a forty-year-old body able to take the load again.

Train hard, and really work on the days you don't want to be there. That's the whole method.

Sixty-seven years old, still competing, still winning. That's my dad.

He never accepted that there's an age where a man goes quiet, and I grew up watching it. When I was at my lowest he didn't lecture me - he just kept showing up to train. That said more than anything he could have told me.

That's what this turned into: a brotherhood of men who refuse to file themselves away. 94% report steadier energy, 89% think sharper, 83% feel stronger. Ordinary men, same decision, all of us pulling in the same direction.

T-boosters push a system that's already short on raw material. TRT replaces it, and then you don't get it back.

Neither one deals with why it dropped. Minerals do - real absorption, no cycling, no dependency, nothing hidden behind a proprietary blend.

I've been handed every powder in this sport. This is the only category that ever made sense.

Eating poorly yields poor results. Eating like a champion produces one.

Willpower doesn't refill what training takes out. The food, the sleep, the minerals your body runs on - men treat all of it as what happens after the real work.

It isn't after the work. It is the work.

I had the shoulder repaired. The circus dumbbell has been a fight ever since.

This is what the effort actually costs at forty. Deadlift, Husafell stone and sandbag toss still come; the dumbbell I'm earning back one session at a time.

The ego version of me trained through it. That version lost ten years.

Your body can't build anything out of raw material it doesn't have.

100 trace minerals with fulvic acid, so it absorbs instead of passing straight through. Out of Wyoming soil, not built in a lab. Third-party tested, so the label and the bottle say the same thing.

I don't need it to be magic. I need it to be honest, and to be there every single day.

Ten years on from that storage unit, I'm back on the competition floor at 330 pounds.

The trophies were never the repair. The repair was one ordinary morning after another, and a stone I keep in my pocket - five things I'm grateful for, every day since.

If you're sitting in your own empty room right now, you've got what I had.

I'm not the only one who came back. More than 150,000 men now start the morning with this.

And if you're one of the ones it does nothing for, you don't pay. Ninety days, every penny back - not store credit, not a partial refund, and you don't ship the empties back to prove anything.

Take the full ninety days. The risk on this page is ours, not yours.