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Work harder AND smarter
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.
Apps are great but…
Health and fitness apps are incredible efficiency tools. But just like AI can do some things, it can’t do everything. Like…
Recovery is non-linear too
Energy is not reclaimed linearly. A good analogy for this is to imagine your phone battery.
You're Boring, Jay
Training principles and nutriton science are well established and commonly understood by most. Thats why we talk about the same high impact action in our content, and why we work more on helping guys integrate what works into their lives, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. If you want to a tried, tested, and scientific plan that gets results, then keep reading…
IKEA fitness
If you’re using IKEA style instructions to assemble your health and fitness, then there is a good chance you’re going to miss a step, lose a piece, or get frustrated with the process.
We advise you do this instead…
Health, Fitness and Russian Dolls
There is a hierarchy of needs in training, nutrition, and physique change. Focusing on one at the cost of the other violates the hierarchy and leads to poor outcomes.
Guys #1 food journal mistake
Keeping a food journal is a fantastic way to draw attention to what, how, when, and how much food you are eating and is a key tool in making health, fitness, and physique changes. If you’re going to use this tool then it is essential you avoid making the most common mistake I see guys make.
How Important Are Effort and Discipline?
You can make progress by adding fuel or reducing friction. Most guys focus on adding more fuel until they get burned out. Here are 5 ways guys in our programs lower friction to get 2x the results with 0.5x the effort.
Weigh-in best practices
The scale is a useful tool to help us paint a picture of progress. That said, it is only a single tool and is only as effective if we use it correctly and consistently. That means daily and under the same circumstances. Here is what we advise…
Ignorance is... Misery
Ignoring the reality of our situations protects us from the initial discomfort of recognition, but it creates long term misery by allowing misaligned actions and beliefs go unchecked. Here’s how to make the change…
The Guess Who Framework
There are no must take actions just like there are no must ask questions in the game of Guess Who. We simply need to consider the goal, whittle down our options before moving forward. Here’s how to do it.
If you can't stick to your habits...then they don't work
Habits aren’t fixed and the best ones need to evolve to serve you - here’s how to do it.
Thoughts become words, become actions, become your life.
How to change passive and ambiguous health and fitness thoughts and actions to work in your favor and make progress towards our goals.
The 1 thing Ted Lasso gets wrong
Ted believes it’s the LACK of hope that kills you. But hope doesn't change anything alone. Hope needs help. Hope needs action.
You need this much time to transform your physique
Time is our most important resource. Here’s how to use it wisely to get results.
Are you losing (and gaining) the same 5-20 lbs over and over?
Here are 3 simple steps that have helped 100s of guys like you break lose fat, and start building the lean and muscular physique they want.
Videos aren't coaches
Here are the 2 reasons why we don’t take advantage of the free content online…
If tracking progress doesn’t actually lead you to progress, try this…
If you find calorie counting a high friction task that is time-consuming, hard to maintain, and generally frustrating…then consider tracking processes like the ones in the above checklist rather than outcomes like the numbers in Myfitnesspal.