PetroFit
Executive Performance · Energy Industry
Your metabolism didn't slow down. Five habits drifted.
The specific, actionable protocol used with executive clients to reverse metabolic age in 90 days. No fluff, no 45-minute cardio sessions, no supplement stack pretending to be a strategy.
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The Metabolic Reset Playbook
Reversing Metabolic Age After 40
For executives who eat "healthy," train inconsistently, sleep six hours, and can't understand why the scale and the mirror stopped cooperating.
90-day framework included
Delivered as PDF
The Field Reality
It gets blamed on getting older. It's accumulated habits.
Skip breakfast, light lunch, huge dinner. Cardio when there's time. Five hours of sleep before a 6am flight. Coffee instead of water. None of that is a metabolism problem on day one — but stacked across a decade, it produces every symptom below:
Muscle Loss After 40
You lose 3-8% of muscle mass per decade without intervention — and that rate accelerates the longer you go without lifting.
Under-Fueling, Not Overeating
Most executives aren't eating too much. They're short on protein all day and making up the deficit at night.
Insulin Sensitivity Crash
One bad night of sleep can drop insulin sensitivity 20-30% and spike cortisol the next day. Months of 5-6 hour nights compound.
Hormone-Driven Cravings
Short sleep raises ghrelin and lowers leptin. The 3pm collapse isn't a willpower failure — it started the night before.
Chronic Mild Dehydration
Coffee and back-to-back meetings leave most high performers dehydrated — measurably slowing metabolic rate.
Most guys respond by eating less and doing more cardio — the exact combination that burns off the muscle keeping their metabolism running. Wrong diagnosis, wrong response.
What's Inside
Five levers. One 90-day framework.
This is the "how." Print it, save it, come back to it. It isn't a one-time read — it's a reference built around the schedule you actually keep.
Eating — Fuel The Engine, Don't Starve It
0.7–1g of protein per pound of bodyweight daily, protein within an hour of waking, and never more than 4-5 hours without it. Stop treating dinner as the meal that makes up for the day. A repeatable template, not a meal plan.
Training — Build The Engine, Don't Just Burn Calories
3-4 resistance sessions per week, 45-60 minutes, with progressive overload. A full weekly structure is laid out in the playbook. Cardio supports the work — 2-3 zone 2 sessions — it doesn't replace it.
Sleep — The Hormone Multiplier
7-8 hours, consistently. Fixed wake time even on weekends, caffeine cut by early afternoon, screens dimmed 60-90 minutes out, room at 65-68°F. Plus a shutdown routine for the nights your mind won't stop running.
Stress & Cortisol — The Hormone Most People Ignore
Cortisol isn't the enemy — never coming back down is. Real downregulation: slow nasal breathing, time outdoors without a phone, a wind-down with no work inputs, one decision-free day per week where the role allows.
Hydration — The Overlooked Lever
Half your bodyweight in ounces, minimum. 16-20oz before coffee, a visible bottle on the desk, electrolytes on heavy training and travel days. If you're waiting to feel thirsty, you're already behind.
The 90-Day Build Order
"Weeks 1-2: protein and meal timing, lifting 3x. Weeks 3-4: fixed wake time and a wind-down. Weeks 5-8: a daily recovery practice and hydration on autopilot. Weeks 9-12: refine and hold — where the compounding actually shows up."
— From The Metabolic Reset Playbook
Built By
Nick Burns
Founder · PetroFit Coaching
PetroFit is a 6-month executive performance coaching program built specifically for senior leaders in the energy industry — addressing nutrition, training, sleep, stress, and recovery as one system calibrated to the schedule you actually keep.
The guys who see the biggest transformations aren't the ones who found a secret.
They're the ones who stopped overcomplicating the fundamentals and stayed consistent with them for longer than a week.
This playbook is the first input.
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