Matt Kelly and Bobby Bori, founders of Iron & Axis
Veteran & first responder owned · Performance coaching for men

Stronger at 45 than you were at 25.

Training, nutrition and recovery built around your shift, your travel and a body with mileage on it, coached by two men who work the job.

01 / The honest part

You’re not lazy. You’re running a 25-year-old’s program.

The lifts that stopped working

Same split, same intensity, nothing moves. After 35 the ceiling isn’t effort. It’s recovery, and nobody ever programmed that for you.

A schedule nobody plans for

24-hour shifts. Night calls. Travel weeks. Kids' practice. A plan you can’t actually run four weeks straight isn’t a plan.

The numbers you stopped checking

Waistline, blood pressure, sleep, the 3pm crash. You feel it long before a lab report says it out loud.

  • A man in his forties running on a treadmill during a VO2 max test
    02 / The difference

    Most programs guess.
    We test.

    There are two ways to try to get in shape at 45. One is what almost everyone sells. The other starts with bloodwork, a full assessment and your real week, and gives you one number to beat.

    Read the method
  • A clinician in black gloves finishing a blood draw on a tattooed forearm
    03 / The protocols

    Coaching alone
    has a ceiling.

    Every program pairs coaching with a medically-guided peptide protocol: ordered from your labs, prescribed by a licensed provider where clinically appropriate, and run alongside your training.

    GLP-1 classGrowth-hormone supportTissue repairNAD+Longevity
    How the protocols work
  • Matt Kelly holding an American flag beside Bobby Bori
    04 / Baseline

    Start with
    your numbers.

    Every man starts with Baseline. From there your program is built on your data, with a monthly 1:1 session and your Iron Score tracked start to finish.

    $199Baseline · one-time
    Start with Baseline
  • Matt Kelly in firefighting gear holding a halliganMatt Bobby Bori in soot-covered turnout gear after a fireBobby
    05 / Who you’re working with

    Coached by men
    who do the job.

    An Army veteran and two firefighters who built the thing they couldn’t find for themselves. Nobody here is telling you to sleep eight hours and then clocking out at five.

    Meet the coaches
Matt Kelly and Bobby Bori being interviewed on The Mario Lopez Podcast

“We built the thing we couldn’t find for ourselves.”

Matt Kelly & Bobby Bori, The Mario Lopez Podcast, Sept 2026
08 / Start

Start the
conversation.

Book a 15-minute call straight onto our calendar, or send a request and we’ll come back with answers. If coaching isn’t the right fit, we’ll tell you that too.

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