1:1 Performance Coaching · Men · Online worldwide

Find out why your body
stopped paying you back.

Recovery takes days. Strength has stalled. That is not just age and it is not a discipline problem. I find the specific cause before I write you a single session.

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2 minutes. Free.

The Problem

Your weight can look fine while everything else goes backwards.

Your weight has not moved much. Your bloods came back “normal”. On paper there is nothing to fix. And yet you are sore for three days after a session that used to cost you nothing, you are flat by mid-afternoon, and the drive that used to get you into the gym has gone quiet.

The standard answer is to push harder or clean up the diet. You have already done both. It did not work, because the problem was never effort.

Your body is carrying a load it cannot clear on its own. Years of short sleep. Stress that never switches off. More training than your recovery can pay for. And testosterone, which drives your recovery and your muscle, drops steadily from your thirties onward.

None of that is an excuse. It is a specific cause, and most coaching never goes looking for it.

I am.

What I Check For

Same problem. Different causes.

Two men can come to me with the same stalled progress, the same gut and the same flat energy, and need opposite plans. Guessing which one you are is how people lose years. So I do not guess. Here is what I check for.

Stress

Your body is stuck in stress mode

You have been under load for years and your body has stopped switching off. Fat sits around your middle no matter how you train. Wired at 11pm, awake at 3am, flat by 9am. Training harder makes this one worse, not better.

Blood sugar

Your body handles food differently now

Heavy and foggy after meals. Flat at 3pm and hunting something sweet. Hungry again an hour after eating. The fix here is what you eat and when you eat it, not eating less of it.

Testosterone

Your body is not rebuilding like it did

Testosterone drives your recovery, your muscle and your motivation, and it falls away through your forties. Sore for days, strength going nowhere, no drive to train, all while doing exactly what you did before. This one needs less training and better support, not more work.

You can have more than one of these at the same time, and they feed each other. That is exactly why I look before I prescribe.

The Solution

Read the body first.
Then prescribe.

Coaching with me starts with a proper look at what your body is actually doing right now, not a goal-setting session. A detailed intake, your measurements and photos, and your blood work. Every training and nutrition decision I make comes after that, not before.

Biological Intake

230 questions about how your body is working

Foundational Read

A document saying what is actually going on

Program + Nutrition

Built around your profile, not a template

Weekly Read

How your body is responding, every week

Reassess

Adjust training, recovery and food as you respond

Continuous loop · Every week

How it works in full →

Kade Dunstone, Body Recode Performance Coach

Founder, Body Recode™

Built the system he coaches you with.

Your Coach

Kade Dunstone

Performance Coach · Founder, Body Recode™

Sports scientistClassic bodybuildingNational and international competitor

I spent years competing in classic bodybuilding, nationally and internationally. I knew how to train, how to eat, and how to shape my body with precision.

Then a few years ago, everything changed at once. A relationship ended, and stepping away from it also meant stepping away from my business. My rhythm collapsed. I held fat in places my body had never held it, and the harder I pushed, the worse things got.

What took me far too long to learn: my body wasn't the problem. What I was doing to it was.

Everything I had been trained to do was making it worse, not better. Body Recode™ exists because of that. I couldn't find anything that could work out what was actually happening in my body, so I built it: a system that reads your biology before anything is prescribed. It's the same system I now coach every client with.

The first one on this page, the body stuck in stress mode, that was me. I am not describing something I read about.

The system is used by other coaches and clinicians now. Here, you work directly with the person who built it. See the system →

info@bodyrecode.au· Online coaching worldwide

Who It's For

High-performing men, 35 to 55.

You are not starting from zero. You know how to train and you know how to be consistent. That is the point: you are doing the work and it has stopped paying you back.

The operator

Long days, decisions all day, sleep the first thing sacrificed. You still train, and your body holds fat around the middle anyway.

The lifter whose training stopped paying

Same program that built you. Now three days of soreness, flat strength, and a session you have to talk yourself into.

The one whose numbers look fine

Weight steady, bloods in range, nothing officially wrong. Energy, recovery and drive have all slid and nobody can tell you why.

Stopped training altogether? Plenty of men come to me after months of doing nothing, because when the work stops paying you back, stopping is the only thing left that makes sense. Everyone starts with the same assessment, so you begin in the right place instead of guessing for months.

The common thread is not your age or how long it has been going on. It is a body that has changed, and finding out exactly why before anything gets prescribed.

A Straight Answer

Most of what I write is for women. Here is why, and what it means for you.

Most of my clients are women in their forties, so most of my public writing talks to them and to the hormone change they are going through. That is on purpose. It is who most of my audience actually is.

The system underneath is not built for one sex. It looks at your sleep, your stress, how you eat, how hard you train, how well you recover and your hormones. Stress and blood sugar work the same way in men and women, and I read them the same way in both.

The hormone is the part that differs. For women it is oestrogen. For you it is testosterone. I never apply the oestrogen side of it to a man, and I never hand a man a plan built around it.

So you get the same depth of assessment and a plan built for your body. Not a women's plan with the words changed.

If you would rather just talk it through, book the call. Thirty minutes, free, no pitch. You leave knowing what to do first whether you work with me or not.

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Delivery

Fully online.
Anywhere in the world.

Every client is coached online. The questionnaire, the assessment, the program and nutrition design, and the weekly adjustments run at the same depth wherever you are.

Online 1:1

Worldwide

Full 1:1 coaching delivered online. Structured intake, full assessment, and program design, with everything living in your client portal and adjusted every week.

How online coaching works →

Client Results

What changes when the body is read first.

“I'd been training five days a week for two years with nothing to show for it. Within six weeks of the intake, my body started responding in ways it hadn't in years. I wasn't doing more. I was finally doing the right things for what my body was actually doing.”

Brett S.

44 · Coaching client

“I came in thinking I needed a harder program. What I actually needed was for someone to read what was going on before prescribing anything. The difference was immediate. Recovery improved first, then everything else followed.”

Greg M.

48 · Coaching client

Where the risk sits

If I get it right and you do the work, the result is on me. If it doesn't work for you, I'm not going to ask you to keep paying for it.

Start Here

Stop guessing.
Find out why.

The scorecard is free, takes 2 minutes, and tells you how much your body can currently take, and why it is responding the way it is.