Accelerated Fitness Alaska

08/29/2026

Consider rethinking your fasting window. Having your last meal earlier in the day might be the trick.

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08/24/2026

Success Story Time!

SUSKIKO'S TRANSFORMATION: 91 POUNDS, GREATER MOBILITY & A NEW JOY FOR LIFE
When Susiko joined Accelerated Fitness Alaska in April, her goal wasn't simply to "get in shape."
Her doctor had encouraged her to begin strength training, but she came to us with significant limitations. She's a brain aneurysm survivor, has an autoimmune condition, and had spent years in a wheelchair.
So we didn't expect her to train like everyone else.
We met her where she was.
We modified her workouts around her limitations and focused on helping her become stronger, more capable, and more independent—one workout at a time.
And look at what has happened.�🚶‍♀️ She went from needing motorized scooters at Walmart and Costco to walking through the stores on her own�❤️ Her endurance dramatically improved�🩺 She reports that her blood sugar and blood pressure have improved dramatically, and that her doctors have taken her off medications�🔥 She's stronger and more physically capable�😊 And perhaps most importantly, she says she now wakes up excited to start her day.
But the part of her story that hit me the hardest was what she shared about her mental health.
After decades of struggling with severe depression, she says she now experiences a completely different outlook on life—and describes the natural "high" she gets after exercising.
That's what fitness is really about.
It's not just about bigger muscles or a smaller waist.
It's about building a body that allows you to live a better life.
It's about walking through Costco without needing a scooter.
It's about having the energy to do the things you enjoy.
It's about feeling capable instead of limited.
And sometimes, it's about waking up in the morning and actually being excited about what the day might bring.
Suskiko, I'm incredibly proud of you.
You did the work. You kept showing up. You trusted the process—and you've proven that it's never too late to become stronger and change the direction of your life.
This is why we do what we do at Accelerated Fitness Alaska.
Fitness isn't just about changing your body.
It's about changing what's possible for your life.
❤️💪

08/24/2026

Scavenger hunts are fun! Especially, when you can win something awesome!

🎃 The scavenger hunt starts next Tuesday! We will drop the first clue Tuesday morning and you can start right away! First person to make it to all locations following the clues, wins a table to SAARFC30: October 17th, plus $150 food credit for their table! Winners must be 21+ or gift the table to someone 21+. We will post all instruction on the clue post!
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08/15/2026

Early morning workout with soldiers and airmen at the Engage Your Destiny Retreat at Camp Li-Wa.

08/13/2026

Prevent mental decline and grow your brain with us at Accelerated Fitness Alaska. 

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Your brain starts shrinking after 50. Not slowly. 1 to 2% every single year. But one specific type of exercise does not just stop it. It actually grows your brain back.

After 50 the hippocampus shrinks 1 to 2% every year. The region responsible for learning and memory. Most people accept this as inevitable. It is not.

A landmark study took sedentary adults in their 60s. The stretching group lost 1 to 2% of hippocampal volume in one year. The aerobic exercise group grew theirs by 1 to 2%.

The mechanism is lactate. Exercise produces lactate. Lactate activates BDNF in the brain. Miracle grow for your brain. It grows new neurons and strengthens existing connections.

Women with the highest cardiorespiratory fitness were 80% less likely to develop dementia than those with the lowest. And that fitness responds directly to exercise.

40% of people doing moderate exercise for two and a half hours per week get zero cardiorespiratory benefit. The exercise that grows the hippocampus is vigorous intensity. The kind where you cannot hold a conversation.

Three times per week. Thirty minutes. Vigorous intensity. Your brain is waiting for the signal. Give it the signal.

Follow us for more research backed content on brain health and cognitive protection. And share this with someone over 50 who believes memory decline is inevitable.

REFERENCES
Erickson, K. I., et al. (2011). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(7), 3017 3022.
Horder, H., et al. (2018). Neurology, 90(15), e1298 e1305.

08/09/2026

Leggings and fitness wear party at AFA, right after our Super B***y Sunday Workout tomorrow 8/9/26 at 10:15am.
No membership required to attend the leggings party.

08/07/2026

This is the best breakdown on the benefits of fasting I’ve ever read.

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08/02/2026

Strength training is a must. Make it part of your routine.

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07/16/2026

We work to build and keep muscle. It’s one major key to longevity and function throughout our lives.

The more muscle you carry, the harder you are to kill. That sounds dramatic until you look at the research, because skeletal muscle may be the single strongest predictor of surviving almost anything that comes for you.

And it’s not about how strong you look. It’s about how much healthy skeletal muscle you’re actually carrying. Take cancer: there’s a wasting process called cachexia, where the body burns through its own muscle, and it’s thought to cause around 20% of all cancer deaths. Survival often tracks not the size of the tumor, but how much muscle the patient can hold onto. That flips how most people see muscle. It isn’t for the mirror. It’s metabolic armor, a reserve your body draws on at the exact moment it’s fighting to stay alive.

And muscle isn’t passive tissue sitting on your frame. Every time it contracts, it releases signaling molecules called myokines straight into your bloodstream, which means your muscles are literally talking to your immune system. Here’s the wild part: a molecule like interleukin-6 is normally called pro-inflammatory, but when that same signal comes from contracting muscle, it does the opposite, helping calm chronic inflammation instead of feeding it. Muscle changes the meaning of the message. So skeletal muscle isn’t a vanity metric. It’s one of the most powerful longevity markers we have, an organ that defends you at the cellular level. And unlike almost every other marker, you can build this one.

There’s one catch. Somewhere after 40, your body starts quietly handing muscle back, a little every year, unless you train specifically to keep it. And most fitness advice was never written for a 40+ body. So we built something for exactly that: a new page from the neurolab team focused on one thing only, building and keeping muscle after 40, the real science for the body you actually have now.

Because building muscle at 45 is nothing like building it at 20, and nobody tells you that. Muscle40plus is where we break down the latest science on training the body you actually have now, so you don’t just get old, you get old and still strong. Still walking. Still carrying your own bags. Still doing your own life. The difference between those two futures is being decided right now, in your 40s, and most men don’t find out until it’s too late to fix.

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