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?

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.

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…

There will always be more work to do. This mantra is a key component of the success of our clients at builtXyou. Hear how it can work for you too.

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…

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…

The satisfaction is in the effort, not the results. How to keep the progress you make in your health, fitness, and physique journey by making this mindset shift

The most successful transformations I’ve ever seen have come from this shift in thinking. When you focus on the outcome, there is no certainty that you’ll enjoy the process. But if you design the process to be as enjoyable as possible, and build the actions within it, in line with the outcome you want, then you can have it all.

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.

I don’t buy the narrative of yoyo dieting as I feel it encourages guys to avoid failure, which limits their number of tries. If you follow a way of eating, gain weight and lose weight, feel frustrated that you couldn’t maintain the loss, then it is not the diet. The diet doesn’t have any morality (mostly), it’s our interpretation of the story.

There is an ideal intersection between sustainable and motivating that may be different for every guy as what is sustainable might not be motivating and vice versa.

The way we see it, when you travel for work you’ve got 3 training options…

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.

When it comes to training and nutrition, particularly when physique change is the goal, variety is low on the priorities list because for many reasons. Such as…

People will tell you that you’re doing too much, that you’re overdoing it and that it’s not healthy to do X. Until you win. Then they change their tune. They say they’re proud of you, that they always knew you could do it, that you inspire them to be better and to take on their own challenges. They want to do what you’ve done.

Humans tend to follow the path of least effort. By making healthy behavior the default, you stack the odds in your favor, as you are less likely to opt out of something if it is easy, even if you don’t want to do it.

The Tour De France Documentary on Netflix can teach us a lot about how to be successful in our own health, fitness, and physique goals. here are my top 5 lessons from the series.