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You know that feeling when you're scrolling through Google Maps, desperately searching for something that doesn't look like every other corporate fitness franchise? Yeah, that was me last year. Stuck in lockdown purgatory, watching my jiu-jitsu skills slowly deteriorate like a houseplant I forgot to water.
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Last month, a client dropped $400 on an EMG test because some Instagram "guru" convinced her that her glute workouts weren't optimized. Three sessions later, guess what the expensive electrodes told us? Hip thrusts and Romanian deadlifts work best for her glutes. You know what I
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I burned through $200K because I was too proud to admit I didn't know jack shit about user acquisition. There, I said it. And honestly? It felt good. While every other business guru is out here telling you to "fake it till you make it" and
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I was sitting in my corner office, staring at my laptop screen at 11 PM on a Tuesday, when it hit me like a freight train: I was building my entire life backwards. Here I was, pulling down six figures in corporate marketing, checking all the boxes society told me
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Three years ago, I was doing everything "right" in the gym. Perfect form, progressive overload, hitting my macros like a religious fanatic. Yet I looked exactly the same as I did six months earlier. Sound familiar? Turns out, I was murdering my gains every single day at 2
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The Day I Realized I Was an Idiot Three years ago, I was that guy. You know the one - spending $200 on a massage gun, tracking my HRV religiously, and downing expensive sleep supplements while wondering why I felt like garbage despite training "harder than anyone else."
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I used to be that guy. You know the one—ice baths every morning, compression boots after every workout, spent more on recovery gadgets than most people spend on their car payments. And guess what? I was still tired, still sore, and definitely not recovering any faster. Turns out I
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I used to be that guy. You know the one - dropping hundreds on compression boots, red light therapy devices, and whatever recovery gadget Joe Rogan mentioned last week. My Amazon cart was basically a graveyard of expensive toys promising to unlock my "recovery potential." Meanwhile, I was
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I used to be a rule guy. Give me a system, a framework, something I could memorize and apply to every situation that walked through my gym doors. It made coaching feel... manageable, you know? Predictable. Then I met Sarah. Sarah was a former dancer turned powerlifter who'd
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I'll never forget the day I realized my gym strength was complete BS. There I was, fresh off a PR day where I'd pulled 405 for a clean double on deadlifts. Feeling pretty good about myself, I offered to help my neighbor move some furniture. Twenty
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I used to be that person. You know the one – obsessively logging every gram of protein, carb, and fat into MyFitnessPal like my life depended on it. My macro ratios were perfect. My calorie math was flawless. And yet... I felt like garbage, looked soft despite being "lean,"
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Look, I'm gonna be straight with you - I used to suck at pull-ups. And I mean really suck. Picture this: 29-year-old me, hanging from a bar like a confused sloth, barely managing to bend my elbows before crashing back down. My gym buddies would politely look away
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Three years ago, I was convinced my metabolism was completely screwed. I'd lost 40 pounds doing some extreme low-calorie diet I found online, felt like absolute garbage for months, then gained it all back plus some extra. Sound familiar? When I tried to diet again, the weight barely
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I used to think pain was just part of the game. You know that feeling, right? That nagging shoulder ache after overhead pressing, the lower back tightness that never quite goes away, the knee that "acts up" sometimes. I told myself it was normal. Athletes push through pain.
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I'm gonna tell you something that might piss off your trainer, your gym bros, and probably half the fitness influencers on Instagram. Your workout routine? It's probably making you weaker, not stronger. Yeah, I know. Here I am, a guy who spent 15 years chasing PR&
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I almost quit BJJ three years ago. Not because I didn't love it. Not because I couldn't handle getting tapped by teenagers. I almost quit because I was so damn tired I couldn't remember which leg went where in a triangle choke. Sound familiar?