For 40+ Recreational Athletes

Stay Competitive After 40 — Without Your Body Falling Apart

Build real strength, improve performance, and reduce chronic pain.

By Zohar Yermiyahu — Certified Starting Strength Coach  |  Be Stronger Method

Be Stronger Training
The Problem

You're Not Imagining It.
Something Has Shifted.

  • Getting tired earlier than you used to
  • Recovery takes longer after every session
  • Playing more carefully — holding back, avoiding certain moves
  • Injuries that used to heal in a week now linger for months
  • The gap between who you were and who you are on the field keeps growing

"What if this just keeps getting worse?"

— The quiet fear most athletes over 40 carry every time they play
Strength training

The problem isn't effort. It's chronic pain and physical decline that nobody gave you a real solution for.

You're not ready to stop. But you're not sure how much longer you can keep going like this.

The Solution

It Doesn't Have To
Go Downhill From Here.

Your body
Stronger. More resilient. Harder to injure.

More power, better stamina, improved stability — and a body that recovers faster when things go wrong.

Your game
Play freely. Hit harder. Keep improving.

Faster first step, sharper cuts, more explosive power — stop playing cautiously and start playing the way you know you can.

Your daily life
Stop letting pain run your day.

Move spontaneously again. Do hard things. Carry more. No more calculating every step.

How you see yourself
From "the guy with the bad back" to capable.

Earned strength changes how you carry yourself — and how others see you. You stop managing the decline and start building something real.

Who This Is For

Is This For You?

You're over 40 and sport is a serious part of your life — competition, community, identity. You play 2–5 times a week. You care about your level. You're not ready to slow down.

This is for you if…

  • Your body isn't keeping up the way it used to
  • Something is always hurting — knee, shoulder, hip, or back
  • You're recovering slower and playing more cautiously
  • You're worried this is just the direction things go from here
  • You don't want to quit — you want to fix it
  • You're ready to stop managing the decline and start reversing it

This is NOT for you if…

  • You're looking for a quick fix or a short-term program
  • You're not willing to train in a gym with a barbell
  • You want someone to hand you a plan and disappear
  • You're not ready to invest seriously — in time, effort, or money
  • You expect results without being willing to learn and be coached
The Be Stronger Method

Most Athletes Don't Have A Motivation Problem.
They Have A Training Problem.

Be Stronger is a two-layer coaching method built on the Starting Strength movement model — the most rigorously tested approach to building physical strength through barbell training — with a coaching process I've developed over years that goes beyond the physical.

The foundation: Starting Strength gives us the most precise, systematic framework for building real strength. I'm the first and only certified Starting Strength Coach in Israel, trained and certified in the US in 2019 — one of the most demanding certifications in the strength training world.

What I've built on top of it: Over years of coaching, I've developed specific emphases, adjustments, and a structured personal coaching process that makes the difference — especially for athletes who need more than just a stronger body. The physical work becomes the vehicle for building real capability and confidence: not just performing better on the court, but showing up differently in your own life.

The core insight: You need to get significantly stronger than you think you do. Systematically built physical strength — done correctly and progressively — is the single most effective lever for higher performance, fewer injuries, and lasting relief from chronic pain. That's the starting point. What happens from there goes further.

Your Coach

Who Is Zohar Yermiyahu?

Zohar Yermiyahu

Founder · Be Stronger Online Coaching · Certified Starting Strength Coach · First & Only in Israel

When I started playing indoor volleyball as a recreational athlete in Israel's third division — training and competing 2–3 times a week — I had already been a serious strength coach and dedicated strength athlete for years. I came to the sport strong, and kept training seriously throughout. What I noticed: I almost never got injured. Hard landings, blocking collisions, awkward falls — while teammates would be sidelined for weeks, I'd shake it off. When I did get hurt, I recovered at a pace that surprised even doctors.

That wasn't luck. It was the direct result of being genuinely, systematically strong — and it confirmed what I'd already known professionally: strength is the foundation everything else is built on. Be Stronger is the coaching method I've built around that principle, combining the Starting Strength movement model with layers I've developed specifically for athletes who want to stay competitive, move without pain, and build lasting physical capability. I became the first certified Starting Strength Coach in Israel, trained and certified in the US in 2019.

Before coaching, I served eight years as an Operations Officer in the Israeli Navy's Special Forces — an experience that forged the precision and attention to detail that now define how I coach.

Certified Starting Strength Coach Certified in the US · 2019 First & Only in Israel Israeli Navy Officer · 8 Years
The Process & Pricing

A Three-Stage Coaching Journey

Every client starts with live coaching. As you progress, you become more independent — while always staying supported. Live coaching hours are purchased in 10-hour blocks throughout the journey.

Stage What Happens Investment
Stage 1
FoundationIntensive Start		 Live one-on-one sessions, typically 2–3 per week. You learn the fundamental barbell movements correctly, safely, and precisely — and get fully onboarded into the Be Stronger method: movement assessment, technique teaching, pattern correction, programming. The transition to Stage 2 happens when you're ready — technically and personally. Not by the clock.
Standard: ~10–20 hours  ·  Complex rehab: ~20–40 hours 		$1,750One-time · first 10hrs of live coaching Additional blocks at $1,350 if needed
Stage 2
HybridProgressive Independence		 One live session per week + 1–2 independent training days with full asynchronous form review and updated programming. This stage runs as long as it needs to — weeks or months — with live coaching hours purchased in continuing 10-hour blocks. The pace of transition is determined by your readiness, not a fixed timeline. $1,350Per 10hr block · purchased as needed throughout this stage + Form review plan below
Stage 3
OngoingLong-Term Process		 You train independently 2–4 times per week. Every session gets full form review and updated programming. Live sessions are available from a pre-purchased bank of hours whenever something needs real-time coaching.

The ongoing plan comes in two tiers: Standard (up to 2 coached sessions/week) or Premium (up to 4/week). Both include form review, feedback, and updated programming on every session — Premium simply means more frequent coaching touchpoints and faster correction cycles. 		$295/moStandard · up to 2 sessions/week $550/mo · Premium · up to 4/week
FAQ

Common Questions

No — and that's actually the point. The training is designed to support your sport, not replace it. Most athletes train in the gym 2–3 times per week alongside their regular games and practice. We manage the load carefully so the strength work enhances your performance rather than competing with it.
Most strength training programs aren't built around a precise movement model, progressive loading, or individualized coaching — they're generic. What makes this different is technical precision, systematic progression tracked and adjusted continuously, and real coaching accountability. Most athletes who've "tried weights before" were doing something fundamentally different from this.
This is one of the most common reasons people come to Be Stronger. Chronic pain and past injuries are taken seriously from day one — through movement assessment, careful programming, and coaching that never pushes through pain recklessly. In most cases, getting stronger is precisely what resolves chronic pain, not what aggravates it. Every case is assessed individually.
In the Foundation stage, typically 2–3 live sessions per week of 1–2 hours each. Once you move to independent training, most athletes train 2–4 times per week with sessions averaging 60–75 minutes. The gym work fits around your sport schedule, not the other way around.
In the short term, there's an adaptation period where you may feel some fatigue — normal and expected, and we program around it deliberately. Within a few weeks, most athletes report the opposite: more energy, better endurance during games, and faster recovery between sessions. The goal is always to make you more available for your sport — not less.
We connect via Zoom while you're at your gym. You set up your phone on a small tripod so I can see a full-body view as you lift, and wear a Bluetooth earpiece so you can hear my cues clearly. You lift — I watch each set and cue you live, set by set. All you need is a rack, a barbell, a tripod, and an earpiece. Think of it as a technique lesson, not a workout class.
You train at your gym on your own schedule, following a program built specifically for you — adjusted session to session based on your performance. After each session, you record one set of each lift and upload it. I review your videos and send written cues and corrections. You apply the cues in your next workout. Steady improvements, every session — with total schedule flexibility.

Build Real Strength.
Stop Planning Your Life
Around Injuries and Flare-Ups.

You've put in the effort for years. Now it's time to train smarter — with a process built specifically for athletes like you.

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