I spent two years paying a personal trainer $75 an hour before I finally started asking the questions that actually mattered — not how to lift, but what I was putting in my body and why. One of the biggest rabbit holes I fell into was standing in the supplement aisle (and, yes, scrolling Amazon … Read more
I used to stay up until 2am watching YouTube fitness videos, taking notes in a beat-up spiral notebook like I was cramming for an exam — which, honestly, I kind of was. But for all those hours I spent obsessing over training splits, macros, and recovery protocols, one thing kept tripping me up in real … 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, including throwing money at supplements I knew nothing about while ignoring the one … Read more
When I was cutting weight for wrestling in high school, I thought I understood nutrition. Spoiler: I knew absolutely nothing. I was surviving on iceberg lettuce and blind confidence, and the moment I started lifting seriously a few years later, I swung hard in the other direction — convinced I had to slam a protein … Read more
Playing college intramural basketball, I was the slowest guy on the court and I knew it — and that’s what sent me to the gym at 6am three days a week trying to fix it. What I didn’t know then was that I was sabotaging half those sessions before they even started, either showing up … Read more