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Proven nutrition & fitness protocols to help you shed body fat & build lean muscle
Hello, friends. This past week saw some amazing new companies launching in the biotech space. A bunch of gossipy news about AI and various fitness podcasters admitting that, after all the peptides and all the GLPs, losing body…
Knee pain is experienced by around 1 in 4 to 1 in 5 Americans. Its the most common pain people experience as they age, right along low back pain. For some people, your knee pain might be from an actual injury. Ive had right knee…
I’ve said for years that bro science contains many nuggets of wisdom and is often directionally correct, even if it’s not airtight scientific in its explanations. There are many training practices that have been popularized by…
I’ve been a personal trainer for almost 20 years and I’m getting closer to 40. One of the realities I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten older both physically and in my professional field is the vast majority of fitness advice is still…
For the past decade I have started almost every morning the same way: coffee, a scoop of collagen peptides, a scoop of creatine monohydrate, a splash of cream, and a little honey. It is not a complicated ritual. It takes about…
If you spend any time in gyms and train seriously, you will eventually learn the term “Bro-Split”. It refers to a training schedule that is muscle group focused, and usually is based on training each muscle once a week. These…
Mobility is essential for living PAIN FREE It is not just glorified stretching. Stretching is part of it, but the outcomes we actually want are more specific. Mobility is the philosophy of retaining full capacity of all of our…
Whats the Deal with LDL? Over the course of my life Ive seen conversation around cholesterol swing back and forth. In the 1980s and 1990s, low fat was the craze and cholesterol was the enemy. Then in the 2000s, paleo became…
In the past decade, Ive had over 5000 people use my Accelerated Fat Loss Program (and this was before GLPs became mainstream). One of the primary strategies that makes that program successful for people is Refeeds. Most people…
We are in the final quarter of 2026. How did this year go for you? What were your health wins? Let me know in the comments 1. Stop using “tool-shaped” performance hacks A tool exists to solve a problem clearly. Not to create new…
You could work 60 hours a week, train hard in the gym, eat whatever was around, sleep five hours, and bounce back by Thursday. Your nervous system could handle the load because your recovery engine was running on full volume.…
They think it takes too much time… They see influencers online spending 45 minutes on elaborate warm-up protocols—rolling around on foam rollers, tying bands to rigs, and running through twenty different drills. Their immediate…