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The "be realistic" newsletter. Basically how to become the best version of you in terms of health and fitness - and then life itself

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Just showing up isn't enough

They say that 90% of success is just showing up — which I believe is true — it just isn’t the full story. The problem with deciding that you’re going to “just show up” is the mentality that comes along with it. Just showing up will eventually boil down to “good enough”. And showing up and doing “good enough” will get you results that are exactly that — good enough. But I know you want better than that. For a lot of the things we do in life, good enough is fine. But we all have a few specific...

Everyone wants to be more efficient. To be more productive. To be more organized. To work on the side hustle they want to make their main hustle. To be able to enjoy the moment because their work is taken care of. Now I don’t know exactly what it is you’re missing, but I do know that a 5am morning routine can help. I’ve already talked about the importance of waking up early before. It’s the first domino that falls in the process of getting your life together. You wake up early and everything...

I accidentally figured out the perfect way to completely change your diet so that you can eat right, lose weight, and stay healthy for the long term instead of losing a bunch of weight just to gain it all back. I got here because of my two knee surgeries. I spent 8 months hardly moving at all and my diet started to slip because of it. I ended up putting on about 20 pounds in those 8 months. It sucked. I thought once I was able to move again I’d lose the weight in no time simply because I...

I just used AI to save me weeks of experimenting when it comes to my diet plan and supplement protocol. AI is all anyone talks about these days and it couldn’t be any more annoying. It’s going to take our jobs It’s useless and we shouldn’t use it It’s going to take over the world and enslave us all It turns out that it’s none of those things. To be honest, I used to think it was useless. Any time I used it I didn’t get the answers I was looking for. But it turns out that AI is just a tool,...

Time to talk about supplements. I learned how to do it the right way. In the past, I was the guy who just wanted to “have more energy” and started blasting the random, cheap, “testosterone boosting” supplements you could find on amazon. That — is not how it works. I find the whole world of supplementation funny in a way. It seems like there are only two camps. You have the people who think they can take a pill and everything in their life is going to change. That one specific supplement is...

A few months ago I made a couple of videos talking about the diet and exercise routine that I would use to get myself back into top shape after spending the previous 6 months recovering from 2 knee surgeries. It’s been 2 months since then and I’ve had quite a few setbacks. The goal was to jump back into the extremely active, high cardio lifestyle that I lived before the surgeries. That meant lifting 3x a week, boxing 2x a week, and soccer 2x a week. This is the life I like to live. I’m...

What's holding you back from making the transformation that you want to make is overanalyzing, overcomplicating, and trying to do everything the best way possible. It’s just how we’re wired these days. We’re so plugged in to what everyone else is doing that we can’t help but compare ourselves to everyone else. Everything we pick up we have to be perfect, and to be perfect we think there’s a perfect way to do everything. For as long as I can remember I’ve been obsessed with efficiency. For me,...

Everyone wants to be more productive. They want more drive, motivation, and efficiency. Well, it turns out that there’s something you can do starting tomorrow that can give you that. You can finally have the drive and ability to start the work that you’ve been putting off. Whether that’s getting in the gym or learning a new skill. It’s simple: wake up early. Stick with me here. This is going to come full circle at the end and you’ll understand. I know your mind probably thinks that’s way too...

Today we’re going to talk about progressive overload as it pertains to both life and in the gym. Progressive overload is everybody’s favorite term when it comes to training, but for some reason a lot of people still don’t abide by it. And the reason for this is newbie gains. Any time we start learning something new whether it’s the gym or an instrument or something else, we get used to how quick and easy it is to make progress. You start lifting in the gym and you don’t even have to think...

There’s a trap that I fell into in my teens and early 20s that I want to save you from. It has to do with finding mentors. We all know it’s important to have mentors, the point of this video isn’t to tell you not to find mentors. They’re extremely important to have. We have an actual cheat code these days with the abundance of books as well as the internet to find the exact mentors that we need. What used to take years of asking questions, learning, and thinking can be solved in a matter of...