Back in college, I was the guy eating peanut butter straight from the jar to hit my protein macros — no budget, no time, just raw obsession with making progress in the gym. I tracked every rep, pushed through every session, and watched my lifts climb week after week until, seemingly out of nowhere, everything … Read more
The first time I tried to train for a 5K, I went out too hard on day one, pulled something in my calf, and was off my feet for two weeks. Classic beginner mistake — and I made every one of them. What I didn’t realize back then was that some of my biggest setbacks … Read more
When I was running track in high school, our coach had one answer for everything: “Run more miles.” It took me years to realize how wrong that approach was — and how that same kind of oversimplified thinking shows up everywhere in fitness, including the way most people try to push through gym anxiety by … Read more
When I was cutting weight for wrestling in high school, I thought I understood nutrition. Spoiler: I knew absolutely nothing — but the one thing I did stumble onto by accident was that blasting the right song during a brutal conditioning circuit was the difference between quitting and finishing. I didn’t have the vocabulary for … Read more
Playing college intramural basketball, I was the slowest guy on the court and I knew it — that’s what sent me to the gym at 6am three days a week trying to fix it. For a while, it worked: I was consistent, I was improving, I was hungry — and then the season ended, my … Read more