What fitness or health outcome would you like step-by-step guidance for? Unlike the community challenge, the classroom serves your deepest wish for your personal fitness and health goal. The distinction is * community challenge builds rapport among us with activities that fit Path of the Dragon's ethos * classroom fulfills your deepest wishes Your vote will determine where I spend my time and energy. Where does the Path of the Dragon lead you? Please cast your vote and explain in the comment section!

10 minutes after I started streaming at 7:20am EST, Mike Pirie became the first person to join. And he brought his beautiful family! I was so glad to enjoy the stunning morning with them. Mike also popped back in around dinner time and showed me the latest update on his wife’s sourdough. It’s amazing! What I really admire is how she stuck with the process. She struggled at first but stayed patient, and eventually, they got that beautiful dome of sourdough! Although I make alternative healthy cakes like the Purple Sweet Potato Taro Protein Cake and Blueberry Chocolate Protein Cake, I haven’t tried making bread because I’ve always been intimidated by the process. Mike’s wife is leading the way. I think I’m going to try soon! Kevin Dul was the second member to join! We had a deep conversation about his community, where many troubled teenagers seek help. He’s on a powerful mission. Then Bill showed up, and we had a really nice talk! Skool was buggy, so he couldn’t turn on his video. But we had so much fun talking. He told me more about what he’s doing with his community and how he plans to bring his existing business onto Skool. He said that while his skill set works well for large corporations, what truly excites him is helping people get their first sale. Then Asha showed up! I finally met the man in a pseudo face-to-face fashion who rode his bike across a desert, surfed and got stabbed by coral reefs, and overcame drug addiction. We chatted for a bit before he went for a meditation. Later, he joined again when I was talking with Brandon. When Brandon joined, I was stoked. I got to hear some super cool personal stories. He incubated chicken eggs with his girlfriend and helped her with her business. He also told me about a time he got super sick after eating a Carolina Reaper, one of the spiciest peppers in the world. His girlfriend made him eat it. When I asked if she ate it too, he said no. And then Sir Aidan the Brave joined us, marking the most members we’ve had in a single live call so far! Brandon, Asha, Aidan, and I were all in the same room.

Welcome to the Path of the Dragon warriors. Upon coming across this community, and seeing the energy and inspiration it brings, it is clear that the Path of the Dragon resonates with all of us deeply. People can share their vulnerable stories and reflections, and collaborate with fellow skoolers to create big internal transformations in themselves. This had me thinking what Path of the Dragon means to @Mark X, the founder of this community. So I asked him and attached his answer here 😉🤺🛡️🍰 So I am curious, what does Path of the Dragon mean to you? You can respond with a quote too if you'd like, no wrong answers.

Here we transform our health and physique together. Training and preparing meals by ourselves is lonely. That is why we are turning it into a multiplayer experience. Instead of asking HOW, we are asking WHO. On this path, we level up by helping each other. Each level is a step on our journey from NPC to Disciple to Senior Disciple to Master to Grandmaster to becoming the Mortal Savant Check your current level on the Leaderboard. Every quarter, wo reintroduce ourselves because the Path transforms who we are. Start your transformation for this quarter with these 3 Steps 👇 1. Comment on this post, introducing yourself. Hello there! I am ____ and my current level is ____. My favorite color is ____🟢🟡❤️ My favorite food is ____🥩🥕🍗 My favorite weapon is ____⚔️🔫🔪 (Bonus points for including a GIF of your favorite fictional character) 2. Reply to at least 3 other introductions. This is what helping each other is all about 😉 Every comment has the potential to change your whole life. You can even hit the bell at the top right of this post to get notified about new introductions. 3. Enjoy the journey with our challenges. - 7 Day Fitness & Health Challenge (work in progress) ARE YOU READY, DESTINED WARRIOR?

Hey guys, when I was soul searching a few years ago, I went down a bit of an extreme path. Working out is obviously very good for you, but sometimes we can take it too far if we aren't attentive to our bodies. Since I didn't know what to do with myself, I got really invested in looks and prioritized being big and muscular no matter what. This led to me working out with a lot of tension and neglecting messages from my body. I looked great, but was physically tensed up so much of the time. I didn't care because I thought aesthetics were all that mattered. One day, I got to go to a massage. This woman pressed down on my leg, and it felt very uncomfortable! She pressed down on it again, this time holding the pressure point there, as I felt an intense, indescribably sharp and squirmy sensation in my hamstring. After 60 seconds, my leg finally "let go" and relaxed! Yes, I didn't even realize I'd been tensing my leg for days on end until she kept a pressure point there for over a minute. And this was not the only area where this happened. That's when I realized that what I was doing was not sustainable. Of course I still want to maintain a good build, but since then, I have kept my workouts very focused on health and balance rather than going to an extreme that hurts me in the long run. This body is our gift for this lifetime, and we must treat it well! What Mark does here is help you get active, share the inspiration you need, and cultivate people that will support you. He cares deeply about the person-to-person connection and about the internal and philosophical transformation that is involved with being fit. That's why you are in such a powerful place here, because you want what is genuinely HEALTHY to your body that will help you become the highest version of yourself INTERNALLY and not only physically. So tell me, did you ever have a phase of extremes in your gym journey?