Enjoy food.
Build muscle.
Love your neighbourhood.

Gatherer exists to help people live a good life — walking to the spots they love, eating the foods they love, while building a healthy and balanced lifestyle: maintaining muscle and strength deep into our later years.

Sources

Srikanthan & Karlamangla — Muscle Mass Index as a Predictor of Longevity in Older Adults. Am J Med, 2014.
Nascimento et al. — Skeletal Muscle Mass as a Mortality Predictor among Nonagenarians and Centenarians. Scientific Reports, 2019.

A nuanced approach to health

A healthy body isn't just a lighter one.

Maintaining and building muscle mass is one of the strongest indicators of long-term health outcomes. We focus on building something sustainable.

Sources

Srikanthan & Karlamangla — Muscle Mass Index as a Predictor of Longevity in Older Adults. Am J Med, 2014.

In a calorie deficit

Train smart.
Eat enough.

The trifecta for preserving muscle while in deficit

Progressive overload when resistance training
Good sleep quality
High protein diet

Fuel hard training sessions

Your body needs carbs and fat to sustain itself — even more so when training hard.

No extreme deficits

A heavy deficit you can't sustain leads to less success long-term, increases injury risk, and makes muscle harder to maintain.

Sources

About weight loss & body fat

Know your range.

Everyone is different, but for most people a healthy body fat range is 10–20% for men and 20–30% for women.

A sustainable weight loss rate is around 0.5–1% of total body weight per week.

Sources

Gallagher et al. — Healthy percentage body fat ranges. Am J Clin Nutr, 2000.

About calories

Your call.

Knowing caloric intake can be helpful to hit muscle gain and fat loss goals. But we hide calories by default because obsessing over them rarely helps and can be dangerous for many. If you're tracking intentionally as part of a healthy plan — that's your call.

Sources

Linardon & Messer — Calorie counting and fitness tracking technology. Eating Behaviors, 2019.

Enjoy food.Build muscle.Love your neighbourhood.

A healthy body isn't just a lighter one.

Train smart.Eat enough.

Know your range.

Your call.

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Enjoy food.
Build muscle.
Love your neighbourhood.

Train smart.
Eat enough.