With a name like Ripped Body, you may think we only help people with fat loss. While it’s true that many of our clients come to us initially looking for help with that, fat loss is just the first step. You can’t expect to chisel a pebble and end up…
This article showcases Cameron’s incredible weight loss and muscle gain journey. After losing 100 pounds on his own, Cameron hit a plateau and sought our professional guidance. The piece details his journey through the macro adjustments and coaching decisions we made as he lost half his body weight (175 lbs)
You might look at my client Klint’s before photo and think he’d be happy. But the perennial human affliction is to desire what we haven’t quite attained. So when Klint came to me, he was struggling and as frustrated as anyone else who applies for coaching. (This is the normal
Naoto, our Japanese coach over on AthleteBody.jp, has developed quite a reputation within the bodybuilding community in Japan for building champions. There are many lessons I could draw from this experience, but the most relevant is: If you want to succeed in cutting to shreds by a fixed time point,
It’s not often I get nervous writing an email, but yesterday was one of those times. I asked a client if I could share his results, and I am delighted that he said yes. This is Lynn. Or rather, this was Lynn in June of 2020. Lynn had been overweight his entire life. The
Meet Rick. When we began working together in November, Rick weighed 231 pounds. He said, “I really just wanted to be able to go to the public pool and play with my boys without being embarrassed to take my shirt off.” 8 months later, Rick weighed 187 pounds. That’s 44
My write-up about Steve’s recomp results that I shared last week was a hit. You loved the level of detail. So as promised, here’s another… I’m often asked whether it’s possible to achieve a good physique after 40, 45, or 50? (Whatever age the person asking me happens to be.) 👉 Hell yes, you can! I
If I told you that one of my clients, Steve, lost only 8 lbs in 9 months, you might consider that a poor result. But look at the difference! Clearly, there was more than just 8 lbs of fat loss. But how much? How can we tell? What are the lessons here?
“I’ve coached over 1000 people in the last 7 years of working online. You know the biggest lesson I have learned from all of that experience? 👉🏻 The value of keeping things as simple as possible for people. Set things up in a way you can sustain – Two big…
I’d like to share some of those longer-term client success stories today from the past year and I thank them for giving their permission to do so. In 2016 I started working with people for longer than a three month period. It has enabled me to get to know my…
It gives me great pleasure to share these four client stories because two of them aren’t mine. I had Ken translate every email back and forth between our Japanese clients for three years before letting him coach clients on his own. In hindsight, this may have been an overly lengthy…
This is not the first e-mail I’ve had from soldiers in a war zone, but it is the first that I was told I was free to publish. I enjoy reading military biographies, history, and war stories, so I’ve been keen to publish one of these for a while. The…
The picture above is of a former client Katsunobu, winning his masters class (50+) bodybuilding competition. It is possible that this means even more to me than it does to him. For me it represents the culmination of three years of effort. Katsu is the first real bodybuilder to take our Japanese site…
I’m trying to figure out a compromise where I can still share photos & testimonials, but save you the hassle of the results page load times (and me the headache of editing that huge lot of html). I think we’re nearly there, but in the meantime, here are three recent client results that…
The above photo was taken in Osaka, two weeks after a photo shoot Rog hired me to help him prepare for. I first met Rog at an industry conference in the US last summer. It was good to meet people in the industry outside of Japan and confirm that, contrary to my…
In most gyms you go to nowadays you will find a few of the membership take steroids. It’s a fact of life. Though sometimes it’s obvious, rarely will anyone admit using them so you end up guessing who is on them. The unfortunate side of this is that many members…
Though Phil did shed some fat, this isn’t really about that. An experienced amateur bodybuilder, he wanted to share his experiences when he switched to IF/LG principles. Phil, as a man that has had great success using the 5-6 meals/day, high-volume training approach, can you tell us why you decided…
Just to keep in periodic touch with you, I am still going strong on IF. It’s been since November now, and I thought I would share some more progress pics. I am currently 179 lbs which is approximately 10 lbs less than when I finished my initial cut. I am…
What follows is a list of the most common things I’ve observed when working with clients. Some I cannot explain and won’t try, others I could, but there are better articles out there with explanations, so I’ve given links for further reading if one particular topic interests/concerns you.
When Scott first came to me I was confused. He was bigger and stronger, yet wanted my help. I knew that if I could get Scott’s program right, by helping out someone of their size I’d have a chance to impress upon some of my bodybuilder friends here in Japan the…
When I saw the incredible photos of Jesse’s transformation a few weeks ago it totally blew me away. I wanted to give him a platform to share his experience so I interviewed him to find out how he did it. Little did I realize how much this man’s story would surprise…
