Kaizen Strength & Physique Coaching

My Week In Review 👇🙂

Training has progressed aggressively this week.

Been trialling a new approach I’m calling “refuse to be weak” - basically just load up more than you had planned and see what happens. 🤣

Results vary, but it’s paying off.

Pretty sore today though, deload week incoming.

Been training 3 days a week for the last couple of months which suits summer.

Ramping to 4 days in September when I start building toward World’s Strongest Firefighter.

Right now the focus is on the historic lifting stones in Ireland - heading home in 4 weeks.

Got my sisters wedding and I’ve been asked to be godfather to a good friend’s child while I’m there. Should be a beautiful trip. 🙏🏻

Car work took up a serious chunk of the week nights.

Blew the clutch out on track last week, so I pulled the transmission myself this week.

Was warned it was a tough job. Did it anyway, learned in the process, and saved the labour money for go-faster parts.

Waiting on the new clutch and said go faster parts to arrive - but should get a couple more drives in before the season’s out.

Good week with the fire department too.

Second session of auto extrication training in a couple of weeks so it was good to get repeated reps with the tools.

Feeling a lot more competent with the jaws of life.

That said - if you crash, call 911. Don’t call me directly, I’m not that good yet haha. 🤣

Kaizen Tribe guys are absolutely smashing it.

Eoin is the lightest he’s been in his adult life, stronger than ever, and will rock up to his wedding later this month in the shape of his life. Mission accomplished.

Thomas said he can’t believe he’s dropping fat, getting stronger, and eating more food than ever - in his 60s.

I could go on.

These men are working hard and it shows. Genuinely fortunate to be connected with guys like this.

6 reasons men who train consistently still don’t look like it.

New YouTube video is live - link in the comments 👇

Every time a post gets traction, the same comment appears.

“Steroids.”

Pretend advice. Twenty years of work chalked up to a syringe. “Check lol”

So here’s what’s actually behind it.

Got bullied at 15 for lifting weights. Got nothing but s**t from older guys in school for actually making progress. Didn’t let it deter me.

Back in 2006 I won my first Irish nationals at 17. No fanfare, few people gave a f**k, no social media. Getting on stage in fake tan and posing trunks wasn’t cool - just an obscure weird thing nobody outside the sport cared about. Did it anyway.

While other 18 year olds were drinking and f**king around I saved up and travelled to Venice Beach to train at Gold’s with the pros. My mental health took some extreme dives over the years - at one point I found myself on a cliff’s edge, distraught, not wanting to be here anymore. The discipline, the identity I’d built, the pursuit of proving something - that’s what pulled me back. Went on to win my second nationals months later.

Stumbled through my early to mid 20s working security in nightclubs, pubs, dollar stores, methadone clinics. Real s**thole places - junkies, glass smashed off my head, syringes pulled on me. Studied textbooks on my break, spent money I didn’t have on seminars while people scoffed. Rejected from university two years in a row, got in on my third attempt to study Strength and Conditioning. One of the highest results in first year while driving 90 minutes each way on s**tty Irish back roads, training late when I got home, clocking 30+ hour weekends in security. Home at 3am. Up and trained.

People died. Girlfriends came and went. Ripped my kneecap off the bone twice. Moved country three times. I’m in pain most of the time. I just keep f**king going because that’s what I’ve always done.

And yeah, I’ve used steroids in the past. Never denied it.

You could take 5x times as much as I ever did and you’d still be a bitter with an excuse for every reason it hasn’t worked.

The men I work with don’t need me to be a lifetime natural. They need me to know what I’m talking about, to have lived it, and to genuinely give a damn about their results. That’s what’s behind the advice.

I’ve been coaching driven men over 35 for a long time.

The training philosophy, the nutrition approach, the results - it’s all been living on social media.

Now it’s all in one place.

New website is live.

Transformations, the full breakdown of how I work, and a way to book a straight conversation if you’re ready to stop guessing and start building a body that actually reflects your effort.

Link in bio.

The Kaizen Strength Coach website is live.

Built for driven men over 35 who train hard and want a body that finally shows it. Client transformations, the full breakdown of how we work, and a direct way to start the conversation.

If you've been consistent for years and are still not where you want to be - the answer to why is on that page.

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