Curious to see how the community has been winning this week 👇🏽 Drop one win you’ve had this week, inside the gym, with your physique, or even outside (nutrition, mindset, life). Doesn’t matter how big or small. Every rep counts, every W stacks. Momentum is the real pre-workout. Keep stacking it. ⚡️ 👉🏽 What’s your win this week? MY WIN: I started boxing (new hobby).

We all crush it in the gym, but outside of training… what’s that one hobby you could do for hours and never get bored? Drop yours in the comments 👇🏽 and hit the poll to see where everyone else is at: Me: I play a lot of basketball 🏀

I didn’t mean to leave us silent here, but we’ve been on a mission elsewhere, not too far away. It’s usually about continuing to bolster the foundation of the whole project so we can do more. As we plan for a 2.0 launch here on Skool I thought I’d leave you with somethin that made me… smile. So much has happened over the last few weeks in the world, that’s been hard to smile about. But yet here we are L-I-V-I-N. That’s pretty cool. So this message from Matthew M. was well received. Stay tuned, stay grounded and enjoy 😎

Alright be honest… what’s worse: Eating chicken & rice every day 🥲 or hitting leg day when you’re sore as hell? I swear both feel like a form of torture lol. Curious what you guys would pick… Drop your take. Which is the worse? Or is it something else? 👇🏽

My first bulk was crazy. I thought the goal was to eat as much as possible all the time. At one point I even tried GOMAD which is drinking a gallon of milk a day. I was crushing 4 Big Macs in one sitting, eating whole Costco pizzas, finishing boxes of cereal in one go, and taking 8 to 16 scoops of protein powder a day with 30 eggs daily. At night I would hit Jack in the Box or McDonald’s at midnight and order way too much food. My wife’s family started calling me the garbage disposal because they gave me all the leftovers instead of throwing them away. I always ate them. 🍕 My clothes got really tight. I had to stop wearing mediums and smalls which I wore my whole life. I switched to large shirts to hide the bloat. My stomach grew fast but my arms and chest still looked fine so it was this weird strong but soft look. I was sweating after meals, taking naps all the time, and still eating more. The wild part is this was at the start of my lifting about 8 years ago. After only 5 months of training two full body workouts a week and eating like this I hit these numbers: - Deadlift: 405 × 7 - Squat: 315 × 8 - Bench: 225 × 11 - Pull ups: 18 bodyweight - Dips: 135 × 3 at 180 lbs - Weighted Pull up: 45 × 5 at 180 lbs Every workout I felt like a beast. People even asked me if I was on steroids and they were serious. I felt super strong. Later I started tracking calories but I messed that up too because I was not weighing food. Once I bought a food scale it was like unlocking cheat codes. That is when I learned: - A small surplus is better than a dirty bulk. - Eating everything does not mean more muscle. It just means more fat. - Weighing food matters a lot. Looking back it was a disaster but also pretty funny. I got strong, learned a lot, and kept the nickname Garbage Disposal 😂. Photos: before & after my bulk. 👇🏽