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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…
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.
Best time < Right time
One of the biggest hold up’s guys have before they join builtxyou is the idea that “now isn’t the best time”. We get it, it’s likely that we could all think of a window of time when it’s best to go on vacation, best to start a new job, best to ask for a raise, or best to buy a new car. This framework serves us well in many walks of life but it doesn’t serve us in our pursuit of health and fitness and here’s why…
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!
Is Restriction Good For Your Health?
Restriction is a tool that is used to great effect by many guys trying to improve their health, fitness, and physique. But will it work for you?
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…
The Food Conundrum
Food serves many competing needs and desires for us. When it comes training, nutriton, and physique results, there may be trade-offs. Here’s how we suggest you decide what choices to make in your diet.
The Best Metrics To Track Progress
Together, we honed in on 4 key performance indicators (KPIs) that painted the clearest picture of progress for Tom. By doing this, we made progress simple and actionable. Here’s what we did…
Is Alcohol Holding You Back?
Is it the calories from the booze you’re choosing…or is it the other decisions you make when you’re buzzed that cause you to struggle?
The Starbucks Drive-Thru Paradigm
Convenience is a key driver of behavior change. Looks for ways to make health and fitness more convenient and you’ll supercharge your results…here’s what Jim did
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…
Temperance Is A Virtue
Temperance is about tolerating the discomfort of delayed gratification while we continue to work hard toward our goals. This is what it takes to achieve your health, fitness, and physique goals.
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.
Knowledge is cheap - so why pay for a trainer?
You likely know enough to be able to transform your health and fitness…but there is something stopping you. What does the right coach and the right program look like for you?
My snooze button vendetta
Take a look at what is happening when we snooze and why we are better off not hitting it long-term.
Self-confidence is defined by this
Are you the kind of guy who does what he says he will? Do you trsut yourself to execute? If not, heres how to start so you can live the life you want in a body you are confident in and proud of.
Stress Is Killing your Progress
In the this video I discuss the science of stress and how to get more of the good stress and how to manage, limit, and avoid the bad stress.
3 ways to overcome a plateau in your training and diet
Breaking through a plateau is often the toughest part of change along with getting started in the first place. To stack the odds in your favor and increase your likelihood of success, you can do 3 things…
The biggest lie you’ve ever been told
The biggest lie you’ve ever been told is that health and fitness is not that simple. It isn’t easy…but it is simple. Far simpler than gurus and influencers make out. Here’s why…

