One weekend… I couldn’t pick up my daughter.
That was it.
That Monday I signed up to the gym.
Stopped drinking.
Cold turkey off the painkillers.
1am. 2am. Cold sweats.
I’d just get up and go train.
Some days I lived in that place.
And Sundays…
After dropping my daughter back to her mum’s…
I’d drive straight to the gym and just lift.
Nobody talks about how hard those drop offs are.
That place saved me.
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Lost myself in the drink, the junk, the pills. The gym didn’t just get me fit, it got me back. Helping men do the same. Old school.
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Same lifts. Same basics. Just getting better at them week by week.
More reps. Heavier weights. More confidence under the bar.
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19/04/2026
Not saying you have to train Sundays…
but for me Sundays sets my week up.
Simple.
Back’s shot. Head’s heavy. Family stuff happening.
My kids need me. My clients need me. So I show up even when it’s not perfect. Even when it’s not my best. Even when some days my kids hate me for it.
I’m not sharing this for sympathy. I’m sharing it because somewhere a man is watching this feeling exactly the same way and thinks he’s the only one.
You’re not.
Keep showing up. Even when nobody claps for it.
Discipline over convenience.
16/04/2026
No problems. Just more work to do.
I heard Seth Feroce say this and it rewired something in me.
Because I used to live in my problems. Sit in them. Let them justify staying still.
Now when something hits and things always hit that’s just the answer I come back to.
More work to do.
Not toxic positivity. Not pretending everything’s fine. Just a decision that the work moves forward regardless.
The gym taught me this. Sobriety reinforced it. Being a dad made it non-negotiable.
There’s always an excuse available if you want one. Always a reason to stop.
But there’s also always work to do.
And the work is what gets you through.
14/04/2026
I wasn’t always the guy in the gym.
I was the guy with the drink in his hand, not showing up, not recognising himself.
When I quit drinking and decided to rebuild I had no idea where to start.
These are the 5 things I wish someone had told me.
If you’re in that place right now swipe through.
And if it hits close to home, DM me RESET.
The Dad Reset is coming.
For the ones who are done making excuses.
Watch this space.
2013 onwards… everything changed.
I quit my job the same day I found out we were having a baby.
Then I tore the cartilage in my wrist.
Surgery. Cast. Couldn’t work properly.
My daughter was born… and I wasn’t right.
I loved her more than anything.
But I wasn’t the man I should’ve been.
More surgery.
Drinking.
Painkillers.
I was there… but I wasn’t present.
Then 2016 hit.
I became single…
and lost seeing my daughter every day.
No excuses.
That was on me.
I hate who I was back then.
But he’s gone now.
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