Build Your Body Energy balance (fat loss and gain) occurs over weeks, months, and years – not in a 24 hour period. If you need 2,000 calories to lose weight, you don’t start gaining weight at 2,001. You also don’t start losing it at 1,999. The body is smarter than that and plays on a…
How I Trained Hard for 20 Years and Still Missed What Mattered The cost of action in fitness can be high, but there is an overlooked cost that is much higher: the cost of inaction. Most overestimate the consequences of action while underestimating the consequences of not taking action. Working out has never been difficult…
Build Your Body Adding lean muscle is the number one thing, within your control, to improve your metabolism. More muscle means more calories burned at rest. More calories burned at rest means less time wasted with extreme diets or excessive working out. More muscle is the easiest and most enjoyable path to looking better and…
What 100+ Kilometers of Daily Walking Lunges Taught Me (And Why Lunging at 4am with a Flashlight Was a Terrible Idea) “But why would you do that?”That’s usually the first question I get when I tell someone I spent eight months doing daily walking lunges—sometimes over a mile at a time. And it’s a fair…
How This Minimalist Fitness Strategy Was The Mindset Shift I Needed To Transform My Body One simple shift in my thinking transformed my body forever. There was a key mistake I made over and over again, for almost two decades, that kept me from seeing the results I desired in my body. You’ve probably made…
How To Stop Overcome Self-Doubt and Holding Back in Your Fitness I’ve succeeded at a few things in my health and fitness career: But that list pales in comparison to my failures. I could bore you with the list of things I’ve tried and failed at, gave up, or didn’t see all the way through….
It took me over 20 years to finally reach single-digit body fat percentage. Thanks to sports, I fell in love with fitness at a young age.I’ve been seriously training since age 14.I’ve been strong. I’ve been fast. I’ve played sports at a high level. But I never cracked the code to getting lean — even…
Is calorie tracking overrated? I’m sure you know a friend (or at the very least, a social media ‘influencer’) who’s lost weight without counting calories. He’s probably the same friend that, every time you talk to him, tries to sell you on that same ‘diet’ (and probably the same friend who does CrossFit) ‘Bro, you’ve got…
Why Willpower Fails Have you ever relied on willpower to accomplish a goal? How long did it last? When I rely on willpower, I’m good for maybe a week or two.A month tops. If you’re anything like me, you’ve learned this lesson the hard way:Willpower alone doesn’t work. You’ve played that game.You’ve had some short-term…
From 5 Miles to 100 Miles (In 3 Months) Three months ago, I had never run more than 5 miles—And that was back in high school. The first 8 months of 2023?I probably logged 15–20 miles total, mostly wearing a weighted vest while training for Murph. And yet last weekend…I finished a 100-mile ultramarathon in…