Everyone chases the lift that looks impressive. The farmer’s carry doesn’t look like anything, it looks like a man carrying groceries. That’s exactly why it works, and exactly why it costs you something the barbell never will.

The math isn’t complicated. Two hundred grams of protein a day sounds like a plan until it’s 9 PM and you’ve had sixty. That’s not a knowledge problem. That’s a systems problem.

Everyone in the lifting world preaches consistency like it’s gospel. I’m here to tell you they’re not wrong, but they’re missing the point in a way that keeps a lot of people spinning their wheels for years.

I spent decades treating food like fuel I forgot to put in the tank. Now I’m paying the tab, and it turns out nutrition isn’t complicated — it’s just inconvenient in ways nobody warned me about.

Five years ago I was spending money on equipment I hadn’t earned yet. Here’s what I wish someone had just said out loud.

At 55, the old program doesn’t work on the new hardware. Here’s what actually does, from someone who’s chased heavy iron long enough to know the difference between pushing hard and pushing stupid.

After a long break from the gym, I’m back under the bar at 55 — and the thing that surprised me most wasn’t how much strength I’d lost. It was how honest the whole process is.