Wake up early. Around 5AM since I write better when it's dark, and nobody's up. Laptop open right away, phone nowhere to be seen. Client check-ins—all via email for better organization and communication quality. Wi-Fi off right after. A short piece of plain text content, based on that day's conversations with clients, or something going on in my life that could be helpful to you. Shared as a newsletter email, Facebook post, or anywhere else the words matter most—no thumbnails, hooks, fancy...
5 days ago • 1 min read
Here are one of my client's last four bodyweight averages: 226.71 225.55 (-1.16) 223.76 (-1.79) 225.4 (+1.79) Quick note before we go any further: The ONLY scale data worth looking at is your weekly averages over 2-3+ week periods. Anything less than that is too heavily impacted by carbs, sodium, meal timing, gut content, workouts, water, and other things that have nothing to do what we're actually trying to monitor: Changes in fat, specifically. When we talked about this Week 4 increase...
9 days ago • 2 min read
I had a great chat with a client last week about the real value of coaching. Over the last five weeks, she didn't lose any weight, and "felt guilty about that because she's paying me." But her maintaining her weight is actually a HUGE win. Here's why: She had a ton going on: long travel days, road trips, fun plans, and way more meals out than usual. But thanks to how well she planned, the questions she asked, and the way she leaned into structure and accountability: she kept her calories in...
12 days ago • 1 min read
My usual training partner left for Brazil last week, so I've been doing solo workouts since. Until Tuesday. Another gym friend, Javier, happened to be training legs, too—so we did Hack Squats together. If you've ever been trained by me, or coached by me, you know what happened next... Within minutes, I was pushing him to slap more plates on the machine and eke out more reps. He's strong as hell, so he took the challenges in stride. A few minutes later, another gym friend—yes, there's a big...
16 days ago • 1 min read
If you're somebody who "gets bored eating the same things," my 3-Tupperware Diet may not seem like it's for you. But I have to ask: Are you cool with spending more time at the grocery store? Spending more time choosing your meals? More time cooking and cleaning? More time and bandwidth tracking every day? If you are cool with that for the sake of more meal variety... have at it. But I do find that when people give a simpler approach a chance, they never go back. What you "give up" in variety,...
19 days ago • 2 min read
I hired an immigration lawyer on Tuesday. He's going to be helping me with a new visa process that I also started on Tuesday. (I know, I know. The saga continues.) To date, I haven't worked with an immigration lawyer in an ongoing capacity. Just one-off consults to be respectful of their time and expertise. The visas I've been pursuing should be doable on my own—on paper. So that's what I've tried. But after a while, if continuing to try things on your own hasn't produced the result you're...
23 days ago • 2 min read
I remember the first time I got it. It was 2018, and I had just finished my third straight day of tattooing on my first sleeve. The first morning's work. My artist really went hard for a few days I was standing in the shower in my Miami Airbnb, shaking, unsure of whether to turn the water hotter or colder, and pretty weak. After I got out of the shower, I shuffled over to my bed, and immediately passed out for probably 10 hours. That was my first experience with the "tattoo flu": where you...
25 days ago • 1 min read
I'm back in Buenos Aires as of yesterday. Meaning I'm back to my very basic, mostly personality-less Spanish conversations. My bilingual friends often make this joke about speaking in your non-native language: How you only have the fraction of the personality that you do in your native language. If only people knew! The confidence I felt the last few weeks in the U.S. having zero language barrier for the first time in 10+ months Alas. I'll get to Tobey MaGuire Spider-Man 3 confidence in...
30 days ago • 1 min read
Here's what I was doing this past Friday around 9PM: Standing on a tattoo table with my head in a skylight, while my artist Bryan made sure the stencil looked okay for the next two hours of tattooing. It was a long two days. Day 1 was some filler on my foot, and this little guy that you may have seen Friday: Day 2 was this scorpion on the back of my knee: Bit of glare on this photo, but you get the idea Plus some bromeliads (Amazonian plants) on my knee and the bottom of my quad, which aren't...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read