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Bryan Johnson reports a 385-pound training PR

Bryan Johnson

N=1 SELF-EXPERIMENT / TRAINING UPDATE 2026

NEW TRAINING UPDATE: Johnson reports a 385 lb personal record, 20 lb above the prior week, followed by vertical jumps and loaded jump squats; he reports no controlled comparison.

DesignN=1 SELF-EXPERIMENT / TRAINING UPDATE
TierTier 4, Ingredient RCT (different dose)
Year2026
JournalSelf-published — x.com/bryan_johnson
N1
PublishedSep 4, 2026
Added to NO1GEVITYSep 9, 2026

On 4 September 2026, Bryan Johnson posted that he reached a 385-pound personal record, 20 pounds above the previous week. He says he immediately followed the lift with unweighted vertical jumps and loaded jump squats to convert force into velocity. He estimates that he needs a 14.5 ft/s takeoff velocity and was around 12 ft/s at the time of posting. He also refers to a required ground-force target of about 585 pounds. The post does not identify the lift, training volume, rest intervals, measurement device, testing protocol, body-mass changes, or injury status. It gives no baseline series beyond the comparison with the prior week, no comparator, and no prespecified outcome. The sequence may describe a power-training experiment, but it cannot separate training adaptation from day-to-day performance variation or other changes in sleep, nutrition and programming. The numerical claims are Johnson’s own public report and should be treated as an instrumented n=1 update, not a proof that the sequence improves healthspan, strength, jumping ability or longevity. No ingredient or biomarker evidence-grade change follows.

New PR today 385 lbs +20 lbs from last week.
Critic notes

No relevant critic piece or new PubMed/preprint in the 2–9 September window tested this training sequence. No ingredient grade change follows.

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