Monday check in, brothers: drop your name, location, and your top priority for this week. Strength is built with focus and consistency - let’s see who’s starting the week out right!

They are both highly useful. Machines are great for: - When you don’t have a spotter - Are rehabbing an injury - You want to thoroughly isolate a muscle Free Weights: - Build “real” strength - Help build all the stabilizer muscles - Help prevent injury by building joint integrity For guys over 40, don’t get caught in the trap of just using machines. They are comfortable, but as we age, building the stabilizer muscles is critical if we want to perform well in real life as we age

Ice baths post-workout can blunt hypertrophy. Best time is first thing in the morning or before bed, but not within a 6 hours period after weight training. Who here uses cold exposure - and how often? What's your experience been?

Chest and triceps for me today… Check in below - what are YOU doing to start the week strong?

A bit over a year go, ago I tore up my shoulder pretty bad training Muay Thai in Thailand. Apparently, at 53, I don't hold up like I used to. 🤷 I tore the infraspinatus, supraspinatus, labrum, and the glenohumeral ligament. Basically the whole thing was trashed. The VA doctors went back and forth about whether surgery was needed. I want to stay as far away from surgery as possible - and I'll give the orthos at the Houston VA hospital a lot of credit. Usually, surgeons just want to cut, but these guys understood me wanting to keep surgery as the absolute last resort. So I started physical therapy - and that's the cool thing about Mexico... I found a top notch guy who works with athletes and it only cost me about $17 per 90 minute session. At the same time, I started running what’s called the Wolverine Stack - BPC-157 and TB-500, 250 mcg of each per day. The results blew me away. I healed faster at 53 than I did when I tore my other rotator cuff at 27. My physical therapist was actually shocked at the speed of recovery, especially for someone my age. With the combo of rehab work and the Wolverine Stack, I went from barely being able to move my arm to being back in the gym in less than 3 months. Today I’m at 100%. Dips were about the last exercise that I was able to do comfortably - the angle of putting my arm back like that caused me a lot of pain, but now I’m knocking out extended-range reps with a 45 lb plate around my waist. This is obviously not medical advice (that's my disclaimer), but for me, the difference was night and day. and the bonus was that other little nagging injuries and other bullshit healed up as well. My kneecaps used to hurt when I ran, but that isn't the case anymore. My elbows used to hurt during some exercises, like preacher curls, but they've stopped hurting as well. I've also found the hard way that with these in peptides particular, oral versions don't work anywhere near as well as the injectables. But don't worry - it's a sub q injection and you don't feel a thing. Let me know if you any questions... happy to answer.