The myth of the perfect exercise program I’ve spent countless hours, more than I care to admit, trying to craft ‘the perfect program’. I would test them on my own, and if the results were promising, I would run clients through them and track their results. And after trying dozens of variations, tweaking every possible…
Why Building Muscle Gets Overcomplicated There’s a lot of confusion about how to build muscle the right way. Sometimes it’s way oversimplified. “Just eat big and lift big.” But more often than not, it’s way overcomplicated: How To Build Muscle: Simplified Today I want to simplify muscle building, whether you’re brand new to working out…
I made some training mistakes in my 20s that I’m still paying for. My body would look radically different today if I hadn’t made some of these critical training mistakes a decade ago. I want to share those mistakes with you today — because you might have made them before too without realizing how they’re…
*This was originally sent out to those subscribed to the Body [re]Build newsletter. Click here to subscribe* Let’s help some men escape dad bod prison. It’s not that most men don’t want to get healthy, lean, or jacked. Or to move from ‘dad bod’ status to ‘that dad’ status. You might say you don’t care…
This article was originally sent to my newsletter. If you want weekly articles like this to your inbox, click here to subscribe. Where are you getting too attached to a process at the expense of the outcome? I call this the illusion of progress in health and fitness. This might seem backwards from things I’ve…
This article was originally sent to my newsletter. If you want weekly articles like this to your inbox, click here to subscribe. What if you didn’t have to stay on the hamster wheel of always trying to get healthy? What if you could just always be healthy, fit, and confident no matter what was going…
This article was originally sent to my newsletter. If you want weekly articles like this to your inbox, click here to subscribe. Do you ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels with very little to show for it? I spent a lot of my first 15+ years working out from this place of diluted focus…
Build Your Body What’s optimal for your body or your fitness might not be what’s best for your day to day life. The goal is to find the overlap between what works best for your body and what you can actually stick to. Most people fail not from a lack of doing the right things,…
Build Your Body Burning fat and getting lean isn’t as complicated — or as time consuming— as you might think. When done right, fat loss should only take up about a third of your year at a maximum. The other two-thirds? That’s where you focus on maintaining, building muscle, and boosting performance. Losing weight shouldn’t…
Build Your Body It’s easy to overlook how much your small, daily choices matter. This works both ways: Shortcuts in the smaller things will cut short your success in the bigger things. Avoiding shortcuts might be the one thing that finally gets you where you want to go. The bad news? One shortcut can trigger…