This Isn’t Fitness Advice. It’s a Nervous System Intervention.

Straying from my usual topics this Friday morning.

Not talking personal branding. Not talking marketing.
This is about something I’ve been sitting with for months.

Most men don’t need a better workout.
They need a system reboot.

They’re tight-hipped, forward-headed, emotionally constipated, overstimulated, under-moved, full of ambition but no access to the ground beneath them.

I’ll be blunt:

• We’ve replaced strength with ego.
• We’ve replaced presence with performance.

…and we’re paying for it—with our health, our relationships, our clarity, and our ability to feel anything real.

So here’s my take.

If you’re a man—and you’re serious about rebuilding your body, your mind, and your energy from the ground up—there’s a trifecta that works.

1. Pull-ups

Your relationship to gravity.
Most men can’t do 10 strict pull-ups. Some can’t do 1.
Why? Because it requires humility. Control. Scapular awareness.
This isn’t about a V-taper. This is about being able to pull your body through resistance without compensation or collapse.
If you’re weak here, you’re weak everywhere.

2. Boxing

Your relationship to aggression.
Boxing isn’t about violence. It’s about channeling chaos.
It forces you to feel your fear, control your breath, and stop flinching when things get real.
The heavy bag doesn’t care about your excuses. It just reflects your rhythm, your timing, your gaps.
It’s spiritual work disguised as sweat.

3. Yoga (or Aikido)

Your relationship to surrender.
Most men are too rigid to flow. Too guarded to breathe.
Yoga is uncomfortable because it reveals where you’re tight—and where you’re terrified to release control.
Aikido teaches you to redirect force without meeting it head-on.
This isn’t softness. This is power without armor.

If that sounds intense—it is.
But if you’re not ready for all that yet, start here:

Pre-Trainers:

Walk daily. Slowly. With full presence. No phone.

Shoulder + back-focused calisthenics

Deep, functional squats. Get your hips low and open.

Calf raises until you shake

Grip strength work—far more important than people realize

These are humble. Boring. Unsexy.
Which makes them perfect. Because discipline starts in silence.

Now, I’m purposely not talking diet here. That’s a whole other essay.
But here’s the TL;DR:

• Don’t eat all day.
• Fast strategically. Eat meat and plants.
• Stop alcohol. Minimize coffee and processed sh*t.
• Stay sharp, not stuffed.

That’s it.

This isn’t about aesthetics. This is about architecture.
You want to feel free? You want real power? It starts in the body.
Not the mirror. Not your bank account. Not your social metrics.

Your spine. Your breath. Your ability to meet resistance without folding or faking it.

That’s the actual work.

…and if this hit you in the gut? Good.
You’re not broken. You’re waking up.

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If building a personal brand that moves the same way—grounded, raw, radically honest, and UNIGNORABLE—resonates with you, my page is for you.

You know where to find me.