How long until I see results?

...cially in our space, let's be honest. Yeah, yeah, I've been told that and I appreciate that and I guess it comes from the seeing the people around me how their choices over time especially my older folks in my family how it catches up to you over time and gives you poor health, whether that's metabolic disease, heart disease, stroke, diab...

the most common challenges that you tended to see and you still see coming up. I think doubt always creeps in when people don't see. They don't see. So they can be working really hard, making strides, but may not be the ideal of where they think they should be right now. So when I do, and that's when people start asking me we've been trai...

...clear to people that know us because if we're invited for dinner she will die, will be done in five minutes. How long are you planning for like, and I'm like, ah, whatever it is, what is, but I'm trying to work on that too. But but after doing that small sort of shift, how did that build your confidence or give you that confidence to move...

...s if we can create massive awareness of what choices we are making that lead to these feelings, that lead to our training and our eating and our diet and thinking that we don't have enough time in our schedule and whatever else. Rather than try to unravel the psychology, which is very difficult and I'm not a psychologist either I'd rather...

I would say my average client, 50 years of age, is on three to five medications, from blood pressure meds to you name it, and within six months they're normally down to one, if not none at all, because they're starting to really get it. I guess my one selling diversity tool, as a trainer myself, is that we're relatively old compared to th...

Sure it is. That's the incredible thing about the human body it's so adaptable. But here's the problem it's extremely slow at adaptation, extremely slow, so slow. The majority of humans give up because we want our brain wants instant gratification. I don't know if you know this, but we come into this world with only two fears the fear of...

...who. I am, but I also love myself enough to make some health changes. Like. I didn't like how I ate and I wasn't eating very well, like lots of rice and pastas that weren't protein filled or just not healthy choices, and I was eating a lot and going out with friends a lot and I was buying lunch from school every day and money also wasn't...

...things and I'll get this question like what should I be taking? You said we take on this. I don't take on stairs from the fat burners A lot of them and I'll say this have I do I use them. I use them once in a blue movement for times when I'm like yeah, I've been the same. Not feeling it and I have to get out. I'll use it for that. But wha...

...ink about people that want to make health changes. I mean, without frequency and consistency, it's going to be a long journey. Like it's a lot of start, stop, continue and it can be very demoralizing, right, yes, Like when we start to question like, oh, I've been doing this for three months, I don't see any results as well, in three month...

...eing mindful of what you're putting into your body, because a lot of us are on autopilot, especially, but then treating it out or eating lunch or something like that at work, and there you're still on the computer or you're looking at your phone. Just slowing down. If you can eat slowly and mindfully, man, that's a game changer. Not easy,...

...uding the ones that do not flatter me. FIG. 01 The unglamorous part nobody photographs. The honest answer to how long it takes to get back in shape is this: you will feel different in about two weeks, you will be measurably stronger in about six, and you will look different somewhere between weeks eight and twelve. If you are over forty a...

...get, and a bedtime. Repeat it for sixty days. Retest. That is the whole method, and it is boring on purpose. How long does it take to get back in shape? Most men who train three to four times a week feel different within two weeks, feel stronger within four to six weeks, and start to look different somewhere between weeks eight and twelve...

week five or six, when early results slow and normal life returns. The men who keep going have had enough time to associate the behaviour with feeling better, which takes longer than most programs run for. How do I stay motivated to exercise? You do not, not reliably. You lower the bar until motivation stops being the deciding factor. Pic...

...cause the thing that got you started is not a thing that can keep you going. This is the clearest pattern I have seen in nearly thirty years of coaching, and I first wrote about it in 2016 after running a 28-day challenge and asking the participants a simple question three weeks in: how are you staying motivated? The useful distinction is...

...e road. Here is the road. You change the defaults, one at a time, and you wait. Protein at breakfast for a month until it is not a decision. Then fat at every meal. Then the evening cutoff. Each one takes about four weeks to stop requiring thought, and the compounding is what does the work , not the intensity. I have watched this play out...

Training is one third of it. The framework is thirty minutes a day split between movement, stillness and reading, held inside a small cohort with real accountability. The body changes because the days change. What is a dad bod, and is the project about getting rid of one? The dad bod is a body shaped by a decade of putting everything else...

The most common reason men give me for not training is time. It is also the one I have the least patience with, and not because I think they are lying. FIG. 01 Sixty seconds of hard work, three times a week. The single most common reason men give me for not training is time. It is also the one I have the least patience with, and not becau...

...st an idea. Seven years later that idea is the whole of my working life. This is the full version: where it came from, what it actually involves, and the promises it refuses to make. FIG. 01 The work is small and repeated. That is the whole trick. Every man in this work arrived the same way. Successful at his job, good at being a dad, pre...

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I should qualify that. I was good at the training. I was bad at the business of training, and the reason I was bad at it is the reason I do what I do now, so it is the right place to start. Years ago I had a client I will call John, because that is what I called him when I first wrote this down and he is entitled to stay anonymous. John w...