Systems.

That’s it. That’s the answer.

Willpower runs out. Every single time. The second life gets hectic it’s the first thing to go.

Systems don’t care how motivated you are.

You don’t decide what to eat every day. You eat the same meals on repeat. You don’t figure out when to work out each morning. It’s already blocked in your schedule. You don’t rely on feeling like it. You built a routine around your busiest week. Not your ideal one.

Simple enough to run on autopilot. Simple enough that discipline doesn’t even matter anymore.

Stop trying to be more disciplined. Build something you can actually stick to.

Remember, health is an existence thing. You need to be able to just DO it. If you can’t handle your current plan right now, you aren’t a failure… you have the wrong systems.

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1. Perfection.

I have pizza nearly every week. I never turn down my favorite cookie. I have weeks I don’t workout the exact amount I want.

Fit people just keep going. They are so consistent that they don’t need to be perfect. One meal, one day or even one week won’t throw them off.

They just KEEP GOING. That is it.

2. The perfect plan.

There literally is no perfect plan. Do one you enjoy and do it well, then just keep taking action. Not seeing results? Okay change it up and educate yourself.

There is no such thing as a perfect plan. There is just a plan that works for YOUR life and YOURS only. ...

1. You barely move.

Steps. Walking. Fidgeting. All of it adds up. Movement outside the gym is a bigger driver of your metabolism than your actual workout. If you’re sedentary all day you’re leaving your biggest lever untouched.

2. You aren’t consistent.

3 good days don’t mean sh*t. Your health is a game of averages. It has to be something you just do. Every day. Across the whole week. Not when you feel like it.

3. You’re focused on burn instead of build.

Everyone’s obsessed with how many calories they torched in the gym. WAY too big of a focus on cardio. Nobody’s talking about muscle. Muscle is what drives your BMR to work harder for you around the clock. Stop chasing the burn. Start building. ...

1. You change plans too often.

Progress happens when you PUSH yourself and tell your body to adapt. If you are constantly trying to “shock” the muscle, you never get good at movements.

It’s like getting great at soccer, then switching to hockey. You never see your true potential.

Just cause you got a good sweat on also doesn’t mean anything.

Get REALLY good at movements, then try to beat your performance every dang workout.

Progress comes from PROGRESSION.

2. Too much cardio focus.

Cardio is amazing for you but it can lie straight to your face. You sweat. Your heart rate goes up. But the weight stays the same and you never look different.

You need to put on muscle. Every pound of muscle creates more metabolic burn. With enough muscle, you start looking better and weight loss becomes effortless.

Also, you gotta track your food. Just cause you work hard and run/do loads of cardio doesn’t change the fact you could still be overeating. ...

This cost me everything ⤵️

I didn’t simplify.

The perfect macros. Hitting calories perfectly 24/7. An expensive supplement stack just to stay at baseline. Constantly rotating meals to nail the perfect nutrition profile. Obsessing over the perfect split and hitting every muscle group on the exact right day.

Holy sh*t it made feeling healthy the biggest chore in the world.

Here’s what I do now.

I eat meals I love, and I have them on repeat all week. If I want to change it up I wait until the next week. I track once, then eat on autopilot. No guessing. No overthinking.

Want to eat out? Cool. I do it and I move on. If it happens multiple times that week I focus more on protein. If it’s just once I enjoy myself a little more.

One meal doesn’t define you. One day doesn’t define you. How you respond after that is the whole game.

Stop trying to be perfect. Start trying to be simple enough to do this forever.

For workouts, I just do what makes me excited. I track it because I love progression. I no longer do workouts because “it’s good for me.” I do them because I want to improve something.

Conscious of everything. Strict about nothing. That’s not laziness. That’s what it looks like when fitness finally becomes part of who you are and not something you have to force yourself to do. ...

Your metabolism equals your lifestyle.

Anyone who claims their metabolism is broken doesn’t understand how it works. It doesn’t just “stop working”.

Your lifestyle IS your metabolism. How much you are moving. The food you eat. The muscle on your frame. Your consistency and mindset. It all works together.

So before you try to “restart” your metabolism, look at your lifestyle and see if you are missing one of the key elements to the equation.

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Mic’d up incline smith machine PR!

Felt smooth. Form was perfect. Moved with ease. Eating more carbs is fun.

Thoughts on me posting more of these? I get a chance to show my personality and drop some quick knowledge while I destroy my body lol

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Family man, owner of a massive land flipping operation, yet still able to find time for his health and take it to the next level.

Brian came to me already in amazing shape. He was after learning how to not function in absolutes and take his health to new heights.

Before he’d be overly strict with nutrition. Not eat out often. Unable to enjoy family time. Now he is eating more food than ever before and never afraid to be present with his family.

Add in a program where he packed on muscle and felt more mobile than ever before… he became a new man.

Just because you are far along in your journey doesn’t mean there isn’t something that could be worked on.

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