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4 Letters You Need To Understand

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.

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The Worst Times in My Life

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.

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Stack The Odds In Your Favor

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.

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The Microwave Test

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

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We all need encouragement

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…

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