About Us
We’re people in our 50s who figured out a better way to play and we are building this community to share it.
You're Not in the Same Career You
Thought You'd Be In
The Longer Game was founded by two people in their 50s who have spent most of their lives playing sport. Between us we’ve clocked up decades of squash, tennis, swimming, cycling, yoga, Pilates and gym sessions, the kind of active life that felt effortless in our 20s and 30s but gradually, stubbornly, exercise stopped being quite so effortless.
We didn’t stop wanting to be active. Our bodies just started sending clearer memos about the way we were going about it.
Aching knees after squash. A shoulder that complained for a week after a long swim set. The gym sessions that used to leave us feeling good, started leaving us just feeling battered. Sound familiar?
The Problem With Getting Older
The sports that built your fitness base in your 20s and 30s are often the same sports that slowly dismantle your joints in your 50s. Squash, in particular, is brutal, the explosive lunging, the hard stops, the twisting serve. We loved it. And both of us had reached the point where we were paying for every session for days afterwards – in different areas of our bodies
We weren’t ready to stop being active. We just needed to be smarter about it.
How Padel Found Us (Or We Found It)
During Covid, the squash courts went dark. What started appearing in their place, at tennis and squash clubs – almost quietly at first, were padel courts. Outdoor courts – so not an issue during Covid.
We both tried it with the same scepticism you are probably having now. A smaller court. Walls you play off. An underarm serve. A racket, which looked like it came out of a Swingball box. How good could it really be?
The answer, it turns out, is very. The enclosed court and wall play take the explosive full-court lunging out of the equation. The mainly doubles format means you’re covering just half the court. The underarm serve means no hyperextended back. The solid compact racket means no tennis elbow.
We came off the court after our first session and felt something we hadn’t felt after a racket sport in years: good. Not wrecked. Not stiff. Just good.
And then we went back the next week. And the week after. And it turned out that padel is also genuinely brilliant to play outdoors in the summer and with indoor courts now opening across the UK at pace, it’s become a sport you can play all year round.
Why We Built The Longer Game
We looked for resources that spoke to us – people in their 40s and beyond who were active, still competitive, not ready to slow down, but also not in their 20s anymore and we couldn’t find one.
Most fitness and lifestyle content targets a younger audience. The content aimed at older readers tends to be clinical, problem-focused, or written for people who have already stopped. We wanted something positive, practical and honest, written by people who are actually living this, not prescribing it from a distance.
So we built it ourselves.
What We Cover
The Longer Game covers five life areas, all built around the real interests and real questions of men and women in their 40s, 50s and 60s:
Sport & Fitness
Padel, cycling, swimming and more. Movement that actually works for your body now, not the body you had at 35.
Healthy Eating
Nutrition for the over-40s. Simple, evidence-based, no extreme diets.
Travel & Adventure
Active holidays, new experiences and city breaks worth seeking out.
Work & Life Balance
Career pivots, working less - achieving a better balance, finding a better rhythm.
Wellbeing
Sleep, stress, mental health and relationships in midlife, the things that matter as much as the miles you log.
Who This Is For
This community is for men and women aged 40 and beyond who are:
- Still active, or wanting to be - but smarter about it than they were when they were younger
- Looking for sport and fitness options that don't wreck their joints, but supports their health at this stage of life
- Curious about padel, or already playing and wanting to get more from it
- Thinking about how they want to spend the next chapter
- Done with content that talks down to them or treats midlife as a problem to manage
“Play Smart. Live Better. Go Further.”