What would our life look like if we accepted failure as an essential part of the process?

By accepting error as a necessary part of the process, we figure out what doesn’t work.

We only fail if we stop the trial part. We must pick a skill, run it, assess it, review it, and then either improve on it or change it.

There’s a key training mistake I’ve seen too many hard working guys make that leads to burnout, frustration, and plateauing in the gym.

And here is how to fix it.

Super-compensation is the mechanism by which you make progress in the gym to grow muscle and strength, and in the kitchen to lose body fat and get lean.

Most men however make a crucial mistake in this process. They don’t recover. They think they’re over-training, but they’re actually under-recovering.

Here is how to fix that.

The truth is…

Your metabolism isn’t broken.

Metabolisms don’t shut down or break.

If they did, you wouldn’t be reading this.

You’d be worm food. Kaput. No more. Deadso.

What’s actually going on is something called TDEE, which stands for Total Daily Energy Expenditure.

Today's post is a personal share about how I struggled mentally, physically, and emotionally in 3 different decades in my life and how focusing on my health and fitness brought me back from the brink.

I think you’ll identify with at least 1, if not all 3 instances.

Give yourself a fighting chance at health, fitness, and physique progress by having realistic expectations about how hard it actually is to lose body fat, build muscle, sustain efforts, and maintain results.

The environment around you is designed to test your resolve and ability to apply your skills to overcome the obstacles between you and your goals. Accept this and you’ll win.

Ignoring problems rarely leads to positive outcomes. If you saw a giant spider on your wall what wold you do? Pretend you didn’t see it or hunt it with a flip flop?

We often look to the most inspiring and remarkable people in our circles to tell us how to achieve our goals, regardless of their expertise or experience…but should we?

It’s better to do a little less than you think and gradually add more, than to overdo it and miss days of training opportunities because you’re so sore you can’t walk or you dread going back.

Impatiently chopping 20-40% off your efforts isn’t just unadvisable, it’s all but guaranteed to lead to frustration, stagnation, and subsequent backsliding.

Progress is about working harder by using high effort for a long time and smarter by working on the right things specific to your goals. It’s about working smarter AND harder.

An over reliance on either avoidance or approach goals leaves progress on the table and blunts the joy and fulfillment you can get from the process of your efforts. Align your behaviors, plans, and actions to abide by both approach and avoidance goals for double the effect.

Health and fitness apps are incredible efficiency tools. But just like AI can do some things, it can’t do everything. Like…

Use the 10/80/10 rule to accurately set your expectations.

Here are 10 things to do today (and any/every day) that have big ROI.

Should you change your plan or just manage your emotions? Guys often fixate on the action of change rather than sticking with the plan and managing their emotional discomfort. Here is what we advise instead…

Energy is not reclaimed linearly. A good analogy for this is to imagine your phone battery.

It can be easy from the outside to assume that the guys we work with at builtXyou are motivated, driven, and confident.

And yet - they’re all working with a coach to improve themselves. Very often, this comes from being deficient in those exact areas.

And the one need that is consistent for them all is…

If you or I were to try and follow The Rock’s workout program, we’d be in deep trouble…here’s why.