WE ARE RUNNING IT BACK AND WE ARE GROWING IT.
Last time 30 people showed up. This time we are going for 40.
Two Sundays from now, Nashville. Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, East Nashville. We walk, we talk, we actually connect with people who give a damn about taking care of themselves. No performance required. No fitness level gatekeeping. No complicated entry point.
Just show up.
Bring the dog. Bring the kids. Bring a friend who has been meaning to get outside more and just needs someone to make it easy. All ages, all levels, all welcome.
Here is what I know about the people who came last time. They left feeling better than when they arrived. Not because the walk was intense, it was not. But because there is something that happens when you get outside, move your body, and spend an hour around people who are intentionally building a better version of their life. It recalibrates something. It reminds you that this does not have to be complicated to count.
Fresh air. Real conversation. No screens. Just people choosing to show up for themselves and each other on a Sunday morning.
That is the whole thing. And it keeps getting better every month.
Drop “Bout it” in the comments if you are coming. And if you are bringing someone with you, tag them right here so they are locked in.
Let’s get to 40.
#iam1stphorm #wedothework #communitystrength #getoutside
These transformations didn’t happen overnight. They weren’t the result of a 30 day burst of motivation or a perfect stretch of life. They’re the result of showing up long after the novelty wore off and doing the work when it stopped feeling exciting.
Every person you see here committed to something bigger than quick wins. They stayed consistent through busy schedules, stress, setbacks, and plateaus. They trusted the process, adjusted when needed, and kept going when motivation wasn’t carrying the load anymore.
This is what real progress looks like. Not instant gratification, but earned change that compounds over time and actually lasts. I couldn’t be more proud of the determination, patience, and discipline each of these people brought to the table.
If you’re ready to invest in your health and want guidance that meets you where you are and helps you build something sustainable, my messages are always open.
This is what 1 on 1 coaching actually looks like. Not just changes in muscle tone or physique (although a huge perk), but changes in how these men move, recover, carry themselves, and show up in their lives.
The training is intentional. The lifestyle strategies are realistic. The goal is not to live in the gym or chase extremes. It’s to build strength, confidence, and consistency that fits real schedules and real responsibilities.
Everyone you’re seeing started in a different place. Different stress levels. Different histories. Different limitations. The common thread is structure, accountability, and a plan that adapts to their life instead of fighting it.
This isn’t about quick fixes.
It’s about building something sustainable that actually sticks.
If you’re ready for guidance that meets you where you are and pushes you toward who you want to become, that’s exactly what this is built for.
The hips have been trying to tell you something the whole time. Everything connects there. Everything depends on what is happening there. And almost nobody addresses it until something finally forces the conversation.
Consider this your invitation to have it before that happens.
Drop “HIPS” if someone finally addressing this changed your training.
Just a raw dawg ripping 585 for the plot. Seek out strength internally and externally. Thank me later. Lemme get a hell yeah in the comments.
#strengthwork #getstrongereveryday #deadlifttillimdead
Recovery is the answer. Not a sexy answer. But the true one.
Most guys are training on a nervous system running at sixty percent because sleep is negotiable and stress is constant and the idea of treating recovery like actual training feels indulgent. It is not indulgent. It is the whole game.
Show up fully rested even once and your body will remind you what it was built to do. PROFOUNDLY.
Drop 🙏 if you have felt this version of yourself at least once. Chase that version.
It’s absolutely wild that I’ve been part of the 1st Phorm Phamily for a year now. Where does the time go? Well, the time is unaccounted for, but the memories, opportunities, introductions, and friendships gained along the way are countless. I don’t want to write a novel, but I feel truly blessed to be welcomed into a culture and Phamily, pushed and challenged to grow on a multitude of fronts, and be able to share experiences with like-minded health-driven professionals beyond anything I could have imagined. From a simple idea, to feeling healthier than ever with stellar products, pushed and driven to grow outside of my comfort zone in all areas, to having the support to cultivate community events, and even a small role in a Phorm Energy commercial. I can’t thank everyone at @1stphorm enough and I can’t wait to see what the future holds. Til Summer Smash, baby.
#1stphorm #iam1stphorm #1P #phamily #wedothework
You can’t. That is the honest answer. You can try and they will nod politely and say that sounds nice and you will know in that moment that absolutely nothing was communicated.
Because it is not really about the endorphins. That is what people say when they are trying to make it sound scientific and accessible. And sure, the endorphins are real. But that is not what you are trying to describe.
You are trying to describe the specific feeling of being fully inside your own body for the first time all day. Every other hour you were in your head. Managing. Responding. Processing. Performing some version of yourself for work or for other people or for the running to-do list that never actually ends. And then you got under a bar or picked up a dumbbell and suddenly there was nothing else. Just the weight and your breath and whether you were going to get this rep or not.
That is the feeling. Presence so complete it almost feels illegal given how overstimulated everything else is.
And then you finish and walk out and the world is exactly the same as when you walked in. Same problems. Same inbox. Same everything. But YOU are different. Calibrated. Clear. Like someone hit a reset button that only works one way and only in there.
Non-gym people think you are addicted to exercise. You are not. You are addicted to being the version of yourself that exists on the other side of it.
There is no way to explain that. They just have to find out for themselves.
Drop how YOU would explain it in the comments. Let’s see what we come up with.
Taking a work out to the bone is always easiest when you’re in the best environment. Gym 5 is that place.
Thanks so much to the Brandons for such an awesome shoot. @bkessler_photo@bc_visions
I am talking to the guy who used to train and stopped. The guy who was in the best shape of his life at 32 and somewhere between the promotion and the kids and the years of putting everything else first, let it go. Not all at once. Gradually. The way things slip when life gets loud and your own needs keep finishing last on the list.
I am talking to the guy who looks in the mirror and recognises something is missing. Not just physically. Something in the way he carries himself. Something in the energy he brings to his day. Something in the quiet confidence that used to just be there and now has to be manufactured.
That did not leave because you got old. It left because you stopped doing the thing that built it.
Here is what I need you to understand. Your prime is not behind you. Your prime is not a age or a year or a version of yourself that existed before responsibility showed up. Your prime is a STANDARD. And standards can be rebuilt. I have watched men in their 40s and 50s become the strongest most capable version of themselves they have ever been because they finally stopped treating their fitness like a luxury they could not afford and started treating it like the non-negotiable it always was.
Three hours a week. A system that fits your actual life. Someone who knows how to build this around a busy professional schedule without burning you out or breaking you down.
That is all it takes to start getting it back.
You built a career. You built a family. You built a life worth being strong for.
Now build the body that matches it.
I do not know what went wrong. I do not know at what point in civilisation someone decided that the pinnacle of human productivity was a calendar notification for a meeting that could have been an email, but here we are.
Meanwhile the deadlift has been sitting here this entire time. Unchanged. Unapologetic. PERFECT.
No updates required. No new features. No notification asking if you are still watching. Just a bar, some weight, the floor, and every muscle in your body being asked to work together or fail together. That is it. That is the whole product. It has never needed a patch.
You want focus? Deadlift. You want stress relief that actually works? Deadlift. You want to feel like a functional, capable, powerful human being in a world that is actively trying to make you sedentary and overwhelmed and stuck in a chair for nine hours talking about synergy?
DEADLIFT.
The people who built the modern workplace clearly never pulled heavy off the floor. Because if they had they would have understood that the human body is not designed to sit. It is designed to LOAD. To hinge. To carry. To produce force against resistance and walk away from it stronger than before.
Instead we got Teams.
I am not bitter. I am just saying one of these things changed my life and the other has a loading screen.
#deadliftday #deadliftparty #deadlifttillimdead
