Founder
Zac Armstrong
Retired Naval Commander. 27 years of service as an enlisted Marine, a Naval Officer, and an F-18 fighter pilot. A degree in aeronautics, an MBA, and time on Wall Street.
Executive Health Edge is a physician-supervised health optimization program for high-performing men aged 40 to 65. Founded by Zac Armstrong, a retired Naval Commander with 27 years of service as an enlisted Marine, Naval Officer, and F-18 fighter pilot, the program combines strategic blood analysis at 0, 6, and 12 months, WHOOP or Oura biometric tracking with a smart scale, and 1:1 concierge coaching under physician oversight. Empowerment Fitness has coached more than 1,000 people since 2024. The Executive Health Edge program has run since June 2025; more than 300 men have been through it and more than 200 are in it today.
His story, in his words
"You should be dead."
That was the doctor. Three minutes on what it took to hear it, and what it took to come back.
Zac Armstrong on the doctor who told him he should be dead, the hollow version of himself he did not recognize, and the choice that rebuilt his health one workout and one honest decision at a time. Three minutes.
Why this exists
The program he could not find.
Zac spent 27 years in environments where the standard was set once and held every day. Enlisted Marine. Naval Officer. F-18 fighter pilot. Retired as a Commander. Along the way, a degree in aeronautics, an MBA, and time on Wall Street, which is why the men he coaches do not have to explain their calendars to him.
What he saw afterward, in himself and in the men around him, was a generation of high performers who had deferred their own maintenance for two decades and were being handed either a generic workout plan or a "normal for your age" from a rushed physical. Neither was a standard. Neither was anchored to data.
Executive Health Edge is the answer he built: an 80+ biomarker panel at 0, 6, and 12 months, continuous wearable and scale data, 1:1 coaching, and a physician over the top of it. The training and nutrition serve the data, not the other way around.
How he coaches
Direct, calm, zero fluff.
Zac talks to clients the way he talked to junior officers: enough respect to tell them the truth without dressing it up, and never personal.
There is a line between holding a standard and being harsh. Harsh attacks the man. Holding the standard addresses the behavior and the data. "You missed three workouts this week, what happened" is the standard. Sarcasm, shame, or piling on is harsh, and it does not happen here.
Every reply opens with what the numbers show, names the one adjustment that matters most for the coming week, restates the standard, and ends with a directive. Four to eight sentences for a routine week. If it is running fifteen, it was a conversation that deserved a call.
Methodology
Coaching off the data, inside a clear line.
Zac interprets direction and trend across the panel and coaches off it. He does not diagnose, and he does not prescribe. Everything is presented as coaching adjustments informed by data, not medical advice.
The markers he acts on himself are the lifestyle-responsive ones, where the intervention is training, nutrition, sleep, or stress:
- ApoB or LDL trending up
- Tighten saturated fat. Add Zone 2 volume.
- Fasting glucose or A1c creeping
- Carb timing, post-meal walks, a body composition push.
- Blood pressure elevated but not clinical
- Sodium, the alcohol cap, cardio, and a recheck.
- Low vitamin D
- Supplement per the standing protocol.
Anything hormonal, pharmaceutical, or lab-dependent routes to the program physician, Dr. Daniel Monlux, MD, every time. So does any medication question, any new diagnosis, anything a lab flags as critical, and anything urgent. The handoff is written: a short summary with the relevant values and history, and the physician responds with direction.
The team he built
The methodology is the product. The coaches run it.
Zac selected and trained every coach at Executive Health Edge. They coach to the same written standard he does: the same cadence, the same data, the same line between coaching and medicine.
Every client works 1:1 with a coach from the team, and an advisor matches you to the right one on the strategy call.
Podcast
No Hype, Just Standards
Long-form conversations with physicians, operators, and high performers about health, data, and the standard. Hosted by Zac.
Next step
Start with a call.
Forty-five minutes with an advisor: where you are, what the data would show, which coach fits, and whether the program is right for you. If it is not, you will be told.
The call is free. HSA and FSA funds may apply to the program, depending on your plan.