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What drinking and hangovers teach us about training
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.
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.
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…
Not every THING on the internet, is for every ONE on the internet
If you or I were to try and follow The Rock’s workout program, we’d be in deep trouble…here’s why.
If you’re doing this, you’re not growing muscle
TIREDNESS DOES NOT GROW MUSCLE.
Too many guys are wasting their time getting tired without getting bigger or stronger. Here is how to fix it.
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…
Hardest Part ≠ Most Important Part
Showing up to the gym is often difficult, but it’s what you do when you get there that matters most.
How good can you be at the things you’re bad at?
Eventually however, more training will be impossible within the lifestyle constraints (if you have a job, kids, and responsibilities you will eventually run out of time for more). At which point more training effort costs more for less results. This is the point of diminishing returns, and to see any further progress you need to do this…
4 keys to training performance
There are 4 key components we coach builtXyou guys on in their performance of their programmed exercises to ensure they get the best health, fitness, and physique results possible!
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.
Researching before you commit is a smart move
Are mismatched expectations are killing your fitness dreams?
If you want health, fitness, and physique results then you need a program that does these things well…
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.
Acceptance ≠ giving up
Accepting where you are is not the same as resigning or giving up. Acceptance is recognition. Before any change, if you can get to a point of recognition and acceptance, you will have a better chance of being able to move forward.
I'm going to give you $50 dollars for free if…
If I gave you $50 to spend in the supermarket with the express intent that you bought the most nutritious basket of food you knew how to, what would you buy?
The hidden risk in the risk-free fitness trial
The risk-free trial of anything has MANY pros. A test drive in the car, a flavor sample at JP Licks, the first quarter of the big game, a free week at a gym. And, it has the potential to pose us some problems too.
The case for anecdotal evidence in training/nutrition
Anecdote gets very wishy-washy and problematic when we apply it globally generally.
Mindfulness is part of a healthful life.
Mindfulness allows us to pay attention to what is happening right now, how we are feeling about it, and what we are thinking/perceiving about what this means TO us, not ABOUT us.
Are your goals actually are holding you back?
Studies show that approach-based threshold goals are more advantageous and lead to longer-lasting results in beginners and intermediates looking to master a new skill in pursuit of a greater goal.
You’re probably right, you might “need to be ready for the gym”
Countless fit pros post something to the effect of “you don’t need to wait until you are fitter to go to the gym” every year. Though this point often has many merits, so does the opposite and here’s why.