BECOME THE MOST
POWERFUL
version of yourself
I help driven people transform their physique, strength, and mindset—without burnout, plateaus, or restarting progress every few months.
YOUR FITNESS LEVEL
SETS THE STANDARD
Your body tells the truth about your habits, discipline, and systems.
When your training is structured correctly, results stop being temporary—and start compounding.
This isn’t about motivation.
It’s about engineering adaptation.
GET MY NEW BOOK:
FROM PUMP TO PERMANENCE
Most people train hard.
Very few train in a way their body can sustain.
From Pump to Permanence reveals why pumps fade, size disappears, and progress stalls—no matter how much effort you put in.
Inside the book, you’ll learn:
- Why chasing the pump actually limits long-term growth
- The hidden constraint that determines how much muscle your body can keep
- The system Ironclad uses to turn temporary expansion into real muscle
This isn’t another workout plan.
It’s the missing framework most lifters never learn.
UPLEVEL YOUR
BODY & MINDSET
Real strength isn’t just physical.
It’s discipline, structure, and the ability to sustain progress under pressure.
Ironclad Training is built for people who want:
Muscle that stays even when life gets busy
Training that works with the body—not against it
A system that prioritizes long-term dominance over short-term hype
If you’re tired of rebuilding what you already earned, it’s time to change how you train.
BEST WAYS TO
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PERSONAL COACHING
A fully structured system tailored to your body, recovery capacity, and lifestyle.
WORKOUT PROGRAMS
Done-for-you training built around expansion capacity, intelligent volume, and retention-focused hypertrophy.
Train with structure—even if coaching isn’t the right fit yet.
GET THE BOOK
Start with the framework that changes how you see training forever.
Understand why your body resists growth—and how to remove that resistance.
Hey, I'm Chris Radcliffe
My name is Chris Radcliffe, founder of Ironclad Fitness.
I’m fully certified through NASM in personal training, corrective exercise, performance enhancement, and nutrition—but like most people, I didn’t start with clarity or direction. I started needing discipline, structure, and a way to protect the gains I was working so hard to build.
Over the past 20+ years, I’ve trained and competed across multiple athletic disciplines, including bodybuilding, powerlifting, strongman, and armored combat. That breadth of experience taught me a critical truth early on: not everything that looks impressive actually works—and many paths in fitness lead to dead ends.
My training journey has taken me primarily across the United States, with a period spent training in Switzerland, alongside driven, high-level athletes who valued execution over ego. But the greatest influence on my development came from making Gold’s Gym Venice—The Mecca of Bodybuilding—my home for over 15 years. Being surrounded daily by living legends of the sport gave me direct exposure to training and nutrition methods that have stood the test of time.
I didn’t inherit this knowledge overnight. I earned it by observing, testing, refining, and applying what actually produced results—while discarding what didn’t.
Like many lifters, I once struggled to understand which exercises, training styles, and nutritional approaches truly worked for me. Instead of continuing down a trial-and-error path fueled by fad diets and recycled advice, I simplified everything. I learned that food doesn’t need to be stressful or extreme—it’s fuel for your body’s fire. When training and nutrition are aligned intelligently, progress becomes predictable.
Today, I coach ambitious men and women who want to become more, achieve more, and live more—physically and mentally—without crashing, burning out, or wasting years guessing.
My mission is simple: to save people from taking the wrong path, and to give them the clarity, structure, and confidence to build strength and fitness that lasts.
READY TO BECOME THE MOST POWERFUL
Version of yourself?
Hey, I'm Chris Radcliffe
My name is Chris Radcliffe, founder of Ironclad Fitness.
I’m fully certified through NASM in personal training, corrective exercise, performance enhancement, and nutrition—but like most people, I didn’t start with clarity or direction. I started needing discipline, structure, and a way to protect the gains I was working so hard to build.
Over the past 20+ years, I’ve trained and competed across multiple athletic disciplines, including bodybuilding, powerlifting, strongman, and armored combat. That breadth of experience taught me a critical truth early on: not everything that looks impressive actually works—and many paths in fitness lead to dead ends.
My training journey has taken me primarily across the United States, with a period spent training in Switzerland, alongside driven, high-level athletes who valued execution over ego. But the greatest influence on my development came from making Gold’s Gym Venice—The Mecca of Bodybuilding—my home for over 15 years. Being surrounded daily by living legends of the sport gave me direct exposure to training and nutrition methods that have stood the test of time.
I didn’t inherit this knowledge overnight. I earned it by observing, testing, refining, and applying what actually produced results—while discarding what didn’t.
Like many lifters, I once struggled to understand which exercises, training styles, and nutritional approaches truly worked for me. Instead of continuing down a trial-and-error path fueled by fad diets and recycled advice, I simplified everything. I learned that food doesn’t need to be stressful or extreme—it’s fuel for your body’s fire. When training and nutrition are aligned intelligently, progress becomes predictable.
Today, I coach ambitious men and women who want to become more, achieve more, and live more—physically and mentally—without crashing, burning out, or wasting years guessing.
My mission is simple: to save people from taking the wrong path, and to give them the clarity, structure, and confidence to build strength and fitness that lasts.
© 2025 Chris Radcliffe