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Toronto · Men 40+

The boys
are back.

You were an athlete. You've just been off-season a while. Fat Guys is a brotherhood for men who competed once and have no intention of letting that be the best of it — physical rigour, mental clarity, and the kind of accountability that only lands coming from men in the same position.

Ask to join What this is
Founded by Steve Roest & Daryl Devonish Founders' round · limited intake
The Idea

Not a
weight-loss
program.

Most fitness marketing aimed at men our age runs on shame. Before-and-afters, countdowns, a tone that suggests you've let everyone down. It works for about five weeks, and then it doesn't.

This is built the other way round. You already know how to train — you did it for years. What went missing wasn't discipline, it was a team, a season, and a group of people who noticed when you didn't show up.

So that's what this is: the room, rebuilt. Driven men recalibrating their health together through real work and honest accountability. The aim is a long, capable, durable life, not a number on a scale by March.

01

Physical rigour

Programmed training that respects forty-plus joints and forty-plus schedules, and still asks something real of you.

02

Mental clarity

Sleep, load, stress, alcohol, and the honest arithmetic between them. The parts that decide whether the training sticks.

03

Accountability

Men who hold each other to a standard, and notice out loud when someone goes quiet. That is the entire mechanism.

The work
A hand with athletic tape wrapped around three fingers
Still taping up
A forearm holding a cast-iron kettlebell overhead
Still lifting heavy
Hands gripping a leather medicine ball caught mid-motion
Still competitive
How It Works

Show up. Log it.
Get seen.

Daily

Win of the day

One check-in. Training, a walk, a decent night's sleep, a meal you actually planned. It counts and it's visible.

Weekly

A challenge with a scoreboard

Steps, sleep, sessions completed. Light-hearted on the surface, competitive underneath — which is the point, given who's in the room.

Programming

Three sessions a week

One conditioning, one heavy lift, one recovery. Written coaching cues, scaled to what your body will currently tolerate.

The room

Men in the same position

Former athletes and operators who understand the schedule, the injuries, and the ego. No strangers, no lectures.

Membership

The community

  • Daily check-ins and the group
  • Weekly nutrition and habit challenges
  • Step, sleep and consistency leaderboards
  • Direct access to the founders in the room
Email us for current pricing
Membership + Coaching

The programme

  • Everything in the community tier
  • Three coached sessions each week
  • Written coaching cues and progressions
  • Completion tracking against the group
Email us for current pricing
The Founders

Two coaches
who have done
this properly.

Steve Roest
Co-founder

Steve Roest

Former President and Owner of the Fitness Institute Clubs and a joint venture partner in Medcan Fitness, where he was Director of Fitness. Fifteen years in personal training, and a football career with the University of Toronto varsity team and the Toronto Argonauts.

  • Trained the Toronto Raptors basketball team
  • Voted Toronto's best personal trainer by Toronto Life
  • Fitness expert on Global TV, City TV, CTV, The National, Prime TV and OnTV
  • Corporate programmes for Oakville Hydro, McDonald's and Covenant House
  • Degree in Physical and Health Education, University of Toronto · Certified Kinesiologist
Daryl Devonish
Co-founder

Daryl Devonish

Thirty years developing athletes across hockey, football, soccer and multi-sport. Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, and taught neuromuscular conditioning at the University of Toronto for eight years.

  • Developed NHL players including Eric Lindros, Max Domi, Tyler Toffoli and Josh Ho-Sang
  • Worked with professional football and Olympic athletes
  • Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
  • Eight years teaching neuromuscular conditioning, University of Toronto
Questions

The obvious ones.

Do I need to be in shape to join?

No. Nearly everyone arrives further from their old form than they'd like, which is precisely the shared starting point. Training is scaled to what your body currently tolerates, not to what it managed at twenty-two.

Is this a diet?

No. There's no meal plan to fail at and nothing is forbidden. The nutrition side runs as weekly challenges and honest conversation about the things that genuinely move the needle — protein, sleep, and how much you're drinking.

How much time does it take?

Three sessions a week if you're on the coaching tier, plus about a minute a day to check in. It's built around men with jobs and families, not around men with unlimited time.

I'm carrying an old injury. Is that a problem?

It's the norm. Between them the founders have three decades of programming around surgeries, bad backs and joints that have already given their best years. Tell us when you email.

How do I actually sign up?

You email us. There's no checkout on this page on purpose — the founders' round is a conversation first, so Daryl replies personally, works out which tier fits, and sorts payment from there.

Join

Founders' round.
Limited intake.

Tell us your sport, roughly where you're at now, and what you'd want back. One of the founders replies personally.