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The Mariolis Method: Move.Think. Evolve. More than four decades of real-world coaching. I don't train bodies. I change lives. The Mariolis Method. Move. Think.

Integrative Human Performance Practitioner - body, nutrition, and mind. One practice, built entirely around you. That's not a slogan. It's a statement of fact built on more than four decades of real work, with real people, facing real problems. My name is George Mariolis. I am an Integrative Human Performance Practitioner and the founder of The Mariolis Method. I've worked with Olympic athletes, international strongmen, AFL footballers, Hyrox competitors, and bodybuilding champions. I've also worked with the 52 year old who hasn't slept properly in three years, whose last doctor's visit delivered nothing but bad news and a prescription he didn't want. The overworked professional who built a great life but somewhere along the way lost himself inside it. The person who has tried every program, every trainer, every shortcut — and is still standing in the same place wondering why nothing worked. I know why it didn't work. Because none of it addressed the whole person. For more than four decades I have operated on a simple but non-negotiable principle — the body, the mind, and the way you fuel both are not separate problems. They are one problem. And until someone looks at all three together, nothing changes permanently. That is what The Mariolis Method does. It starts with movement — because the body is the most honest place to begin. It moves into nutrition — because you cannot outwork a system that is starving or inflamed. And then we go deeper — into the beliefs, the behaviours, the patterns, and sometimes the pain that has been driving every decision you've made about your health for years. This is not an app. This is not a template. This is not a six week challenge. This is a practitioner with postgraduate qualifications in exercise science, nutrition, psychology, philosophy, and evolutionary anthropology — who has spent more than four decades getting his hands dirty in the real world, working with people from every walk of life, at every level of human performance. I have helped people lose half their bodyweight and discover who they actually are on the other side. I have taken broken athletes and returned them to competition. I have sat with people in their darkest moments and helped them find a way forward. I have prepped 63 athletes in a single competition season — and all but one finished on the podium. I don't say any of that to impress you. I say it so that when you arrive here — wherever you are, whatever shape you're in, whatever you've tried before — you know you are in the right place. The Mariolis Method is for anyone serious about change. Serious doesn't mean perfect. It doesn't mean young, or fit, or without baggage. It means ready.

02/11/2026

SHHHH… DON’T MENTION THE WEIGHT LOSS CENTRES

Years ago, back when I was running my gym, one of my members worked at a weight loss centre. Which one? Not saying. Don’t ask.

Over a few months we got friendly, and because I can’t help myself, the conversation kept drifting to nutrition. One day she tells me they’re looking for a consultant, just two days a week, and she reckons I’d be perfect for it. It fitted around my schedule and I enjoyed working with people in that space, so I applied. And I got the job.

Everything went beautifully for about four months. Then we had a problem. Members started cancelling, and when management went digging to find out why, it turned out nearly every one of them had been assigned to… well, me.

So what was the difference? I’d been doing something that wasn’t exactly part of the package. I was teaching them. Why they were starving at 3pm, what was actually on their plate, how to get through a barbecue without either going hungry or going face-first into the sausages. And once people understand that stuff, they stop needing someone to weigh them every Tuesday.

Nobody sacked me. Let’s just say the position became… redundant.

Two weeks later the phone rings. A different weight loss centre (also not naming them, I’m a fast learner) wants to know if I’d be interested in working for them. I had a full-time job, so I didn’t need it, but I liked the work. And I thought maybe this mob would see it differently. Surely, if word got around that their members actually learned how to keep the weight off, they’d have people lining up out the door? That’s a business model, isn’t it?

At the interview they asked about my time at the other place. I was the soul of diplomacy. Got the job.

Six months later, you can guess the rest. My clients start dropping off. My phone’s full of thank-you messages. And the centre calls me in for a chat that ends with a line I’ve never forgotten:

“George, we can’t sustain a business if you’re teaching them not to need us.”

And yet, here I am, still doing it. Still teaching people how not to need me. Maybe, just maybe, they had it the wrong way round.

Have you ever been on a program that seemed designed to keep you on it forever?

The Mariolis Method: Move. Think. Evolve.
Coaching that teaches you to stand on your own two feet. DM me to find out how it works.

30/10/2026

Would you have eaten the marshmallow?

Back around 1970, a couple of researchers at Stanford, Walter Mischel and Ebbe Ebbesen, sat little kids in a room, put a marshmallow in front of them and said, “You can eat it now, or wait until we get back and you’ll get two.” Then they walked out and left the poor kids alone with it.

Some of them jumped on it the second the door closed. Probably the same ones who never made their bed. Somebody should have tested for that too. The ones who waited got their second marshmallow, and for decades that’s been the go-to story for delayed gratification. Wait a bit, and the reward is bigger. Simple, right?

Well, not quite. There’s plenty wrong with that experiment. For starters, I could have waited for days, because I don’t like marshmallows. Now, had it been a galaktoboureko sitting on that plate (Greek custard pie, for the uninitiated), it wouldn’t have touched the sides. I probably would have eaten everyone else's too.

Years later, another group of researchers ran it again with one sneaky twist. Before the marshmallow came out, the kids were promised something good, some better art supplies. For half of them, the adult came back with the goods. For the other half, the adult came back empty-handed and said, “Sorry guys, we ran out.” Promise broken. Then came the marshmallow. The kids who’d been let down waited about three minutes then scoffed them. The kids whose promise was kept waited around twelve. Same age, same marshmallow, same empty room. So it was never really about willpower. Sure, the reward has to be something you actually want (like galaktoboureko .. or art supplies). But the big thing was whether the kids believed the adult. If you’ve just been let down, why on earth would you sit there waiting for a second marshmallow that probably isn’t coming?

Now let’s look at that in light of what I do. I coach people to move better, eat better and think better, and I’ve been at it for about four decades. Spend three minutes on social media and you’ll see second-marshmallow promises everywhere. The diet that was going to change everything. The supplement that would have you standing in front of the mirror shouting “I’m Batman!” The six-week transformation that turned into an injury, a pile of guilt and a family block of chocolate on the couch in front of Netflix. You gave them a go, and they left you sore, bored and no lighter.

After a few rounds of that, it’s hard to take the next marshmallow offer seriously. And your brain is wide awake to it. That’s not weakness. That’s your brain learning from experience, exactly like those kids did.

So if the next marshmallow is going to be worth waiting for, it has nothing to do with trying harder or gritting your teeth longer. It has to do two things.

First, you have to believe the messenger. If they’re in bright pink and lime green fluro tights, the lighting is perfect, they look amazing and they talk like a politician... maybe think twice.

Second, the marshmallow itself has to be believable. When you read it, you need to think, “Yep, I can do that. That’s not too hard.” I can get to bed half an hour earlier. I can take the stairs instead of the lift. I can squeeze in a ten-minute brisk walk every day. I can ditch the silly b***y exercises and start training my body as a whole. I’m not giving up my iced coffee, but maybe the vanilla slice donut becomes a Friday thing.

When the marshmallow is that simple, life improves. Every little promise you keep is the adult walking back into the room with the goods, and slowly but surely, you start trusting that what’s on the other side is worth waiting for. Move a bit now, eat a bit better now, commit, get just a little more disciplined, and the second marshmallow stops being a fairy tale.

And just so you know, my marshmallows don’t only taste good. They’re packed with quality protein, smart carbs and just enough fats for everything you need.

So, would you have eaten the marshmallow? Or has life just given you good reason not to believe in the second one?

The Mariolis Method: Move. Think. Evolve.
Marshmallow coaching. The kind where the second one actually turns up.

27/10/2026

That warmed him up, now for the good stuff.

26/10/2026

PROTEIN POWDER, MAGNESIUM, AND KNOWING WHAT THE HELL YOU’RE BUYING
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a week go by where one of my clients doesn’t ask me a question about supplements. And being me, unable to provide straight answers without trying to get them to think for themselves, I start with 20 questions:

“What protein powder is it?” – They tell me. “How you finding it?” - “Oh, it’s really good.”

Me: “Yeah? What do you like about it?” Them: “It’s great. Doesn’t taste too bad. I think it does the job. Has a funny after taste though. Supposed to be really good but.”

‘Doesn’t taste too bad.’ ‘Does the job.’ ‘Has a funny aftertaste.’

That’s the glowing review for a tub that cost around $100 for a kilo. But, I understand that no one is going to admit they handed over a hundred of their hard earned for something that tastes like a wet dog's bum (not that I know what that tastes like), so we give it a generous three-and-a-half stars and pretend we’re thrilled with the product.

But then I do what I do and they hate. I ask a few basic questions.
How much protein per serve?
What kind of protein?
How much sugar?
What’s it sweetened with?
What’s actually in it?

And the response, as if rehearsed: “…I don’t know.”

So it’s a “great” product, but you can’t tell me what’s in the bloody thing.

Out comes the tub. They turn it around, and they struggle to pronounce half the ingredients - artificial sweeteners, random fillers, thickeners, and whatever else the manufacturer reckoned it needed to make milk protein taste like a chocolate thick shake from the servo. But the word ‘protein’ was in there quite a bit – so it must be good

Then they bring out the magnesium. “Oh, this one’s really good” - feeling confident and intelligent. “It’s naturally sourced from ocean water” Fantastic – and maybe a swim at Mooloolaba will fix everything.

So, we turn that bottle around too, and there it is. Magnesium oxide. And this is where my job gets hard. Because "natural" doesn’t automatically mean good, and expensive doesn’t mean better. Where an ingredient comes from tells you jack about how much of it your body actually absorbs, or whether it’s worth your hard-earned cash. (Spoiler: Magnesium oxide is basically chalk with a bad absorption rate. Is it completely useless? No. But paying premium prices for it is.)

Here’s what really annoys me to the point of wanting to ‘cuss’ - but those who know me know I never do that: right now, we have more information at our fingertips than any generation in history. You can check an ingredient, compare two products, and fact-check a claim in the time it takes to boil the kettle. And yet, a pretty label with life changing claims in nice colours, a confident influencer with good lighting, and a couple of impressive-sounding words can still get people to hand over their credit cards without the faintest idea of what they're buying.

If only, if only I could just dump my morals and values. I could retire in 12 months.

Now, to be fair—the supplement industry does have some excellent products and genuinely reputable people in it. But it’s also crammed with cheap crap marketed far better than it deserves to be. And the average person bombarded with products claiming to be the ultimate in getting you to sleep, losing weight, sharpening your mind, adding decades to your life … has no idea what they’re looking at.

These days coaching is less about writing programs, structuring meal plans, and telling someone to get their arse into the gym. A big part of it is teaching people how to think, how to question what they’re told, and how to stop being an easy target for clever, cunning and strategic marketing.

So here’s my challenge. I don’t normally do challenges but this one’s worth it.
Next time you buy a supplement, don’t just ask whether it tastes alright, don’t just believe the fast-talking Insta coach – who’s actually just being paid to promote the product - turn the bloody thing around. Read the ingredients. And if there’s something on there you don’t recognize, find out what it is before you hand over your money—not after.

Your money matters. Your health matters. And you deserve better than paying top dollar for something just because somebody was better at selling it than you were at questioning it.

So, be honest.

How many of you could actually tell me what’s in the supplements sitting in your pantry right now? I’m genuinely curious.

The Mariolis Method: Move. Think. Evolve
Coaching Without the BS

22/10/2026

THIS ... is my office at the moment. And it's only gonna get better.

The Mariolis Method: Move. Think. Evolve
Coaching as it should be

20/10/2026

What you’ve got left is more than you think

Funny thing about time. At 20 you’ve got all of it. At 40 you tell yourself you’ve still got half your life ahead, which sounds generous until you do the maths. Somewhere around 60 a few strange thoughts start creeping in at 3am, and by 70 those thoughts aren’t strange any more, they’re just Tuesday. The older we get, the shorter life seems to become, even as the statistics keep telling us we’re living longer. That’s the trap, isn’t it? Life expectancy goes up, so we figure we’ve got more time to sort ourselves out later.

So let’s play pretend for a minute. You haven’t exactly been your body’s best friend. A few too many drinks over the years, a few too many big nights and bigger dinners, a fair bit of drive-through, and you’ve squeezed every last cent out of that Netflix subscription. Exercise was something other people did. Then the blood tests come back looking like the pathologist cut his hand and bled all over the page, because everything is flagged red.

Uh oh.

What now? You’ve got two ways to look at that piece of paper. You can look at everything you’re lacking (health, energy, strength, motivation, time) and settle in to quietly endure whatever years are left. Or you can look at what you’ve actually still got.

And what you’ve still got is a body that responds. Back in 1990, researchers put a group of nursing home residents in their nineties on a simple strength program. Within eight weeks most of them had close to tripled their strength, and some walked better than they had in years. Ninety-year-olds. Your body doesn’t check your birth certificate before it adapts. It just asks whether you’ve given it a reason to.

Is it never too late? Yes, it’s never too late. But I’d be lying if I said starting at 40 isn’t easier than starting at 60, and 60 is a whole lot easier than 75. Every year you wait doesn’t cancel the bill. It just adds interest.

So stop staring at the list of what’s missing. You have today, you have a body that’s still listening, and you have more say in how the next 20 years go than you’ve been giving yourself credit for.

I’ve spent more than 40 years doing this, with elite athletes, with people coming back from injury, and with plenty of people who opened their blood results and felt their stomach drop. The ones who turn it around aren’t the ones with the most willpower. They’re the ones who stop guessing and get someone in their corner who knows what to do first.

If that envelope of red ink is sitting on your kitchen bench right now, send me a message with the word RED. No sales pitch. We’ll have a proper chat about where you’re at and where to start. I only take on a handful of people at a time, so I’d rather hear from you now than in five years.

The Mariolis Method: Move.Thing.Evolve
Coaching the way it’s supposed to be.

15/10/2026

Keep Grinding.

Don't focus on having missed a session here and there. Just focus on planning for the next session.

Acknowledge the past, you missed out. That's ok. It's done. It's in your past.
Can't do anything about that.

But, you can schedule the next session/s. Look forward, not back.

Essentially, right now, every thing you do goes towards creating your 'future self'..

What do you want him or her to look like?

Rep by rep. Step by step. Keep Grinding!

Get it!

The Mariolis Method: Move. Think. Evolve
Built on Experience – Not Trends

13/10/2026

HEY, YOU! YES, YOU! The one who wants everything now.

The cake. The donut. The iced coffee with three sugars. The couch. Netflix. The easy way out. And stuff tomorrow, because tomorrow can look after itself.

Sound familiar?

Welcome to the world of delayed gratification.

From where I’m standing, an awful lot of people want the rewards of a good life without being prepared to do the work required to get that good life. Want to be fit but can’t be bothered exercising. Want to lose weight but won’t change what you eat. Want more energy but keep doing the things that leave you exhausted. Want to be successful but won’t make the sacrifices success demands.

What the hell do you think is going to happen? Seriously!

You reckon the universe is going to make an exception for you? That your body will ignore years of neglect because you’ve finally decided you want to look good? That your bank balance, your career, your health and your future will all magically sort themselves out while you keep doing exactly what you’ve always done?

Wake up Bozo!

And yes. I sure have been that Bozo myself – more than once, so I know exactly what it looks like from the inside.

We humans are a funny lot. We are so very good at choosing what feels good NOW over what might make our lives better LATER. Hey, why wait when you can have it now - right! The donut tastes good now, and the benefits of eating well they take forever…..The couch feels good now, and exercise – that’s way too much effort and let’s face it - it’s only for gym junkies right!. There are some hard conversations to be had here. Avoiding them feels good now, but living with the consequences won’t, and that’s pretty much a life guarantee.

Delayed gratification - giving up a little immediate pleasure, or putting it aside, because something more important is waiting for you in the long run. But, that doesn’t mean you can never have a donut, or a giant galaktoboureko like I do, or enjoy a night out, or put your feet up. It means making a decision, instead of letting every passing urge make it for you. There’s a difference.

And we are all familiar with the following; people will spend years making the same choices, getting the same results and complaining about the same problems, and still convince themselves things will change. How? Magic? Positive thinking? Waiting for the planets to line up? You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to work out that if you keep doing what you’re doing, you won’t end up somewhere dramatically different. We all know that – don’t we?

It is the commonest of sense then that the choices you make today are helping determine the life you’ll be living years from now. Not next Tuesday. Not after your next birthday. Years from now. And the person living with the result of those choices is someone you haven’t met yet. He’ll either be thankful you woke up, or wonder what on earth you were thinking. And as you age, those choices impact others - your loved ones, and their lives. Hopefully, you are one of those people who do want to change your life

So, the next time you’re faced with a choice between what you want right now and what you actually want out of life, stop for a moment and ask yourself one question.

Is this worth what it might cost me later?

Then make your decision. You’re an adult. You can eat the donut and / or finish the 6-pack of VB’s. But you don’t get to pretend your choices have no consequences or blame the universe for those consequences.

If you do want to change your life and don’t have a clue where to start, guess what I do for a living, and have done successfully for over 40 years. Yep. Exercise, nutrition, mindset: LIFE. How about that. That’s what I do. Coincidence?

There’s a path out there for you that leads to that future self you want deep down. I can help you find that path, walk it, make sense of it, but I can’t walk it for you.

At some point you have to stop negotiating with every little urge that comes along and decide what matters more.

A few moments of pleasure, or a better life?

Your call. Just don’t tell me nobody warned you.

The Mariolis Method. Move. Think. Evolve.
'Future Life' Coaching

08/10/2026

THE LOUDEST CRITICS

The fitness world has a peculiar disease. The more niche the discipline, the more its practitioners seem to believe they've discovered the only true path to human performance. And the louder they get about it, the more you start to wonder — are they trying to convince you, or themselves?

Weak, simple and underperforming people tend to judge the world by how poorly others do things they think they excel in.

Read that again.

Because social media has given every average performer a megaphone. And they're using it — not to encourage, not to educate, not to elevate — but to sneer. To perform superiority from behind a screen at people who are actually showing up and doing something.

Here's what 45 years in this industry has taught me:

The person shuffling around the block at 6am is doing something. The 60 year old doing modified push ups on her knees is doing something. The bloke who's been out of the gym for a decade and just walked back in — he's doing something.

None of them deserve your scorn. They deserve your respect.

Movement is movement. Effort is effort. And the best exercise program in the world is the one a person will actually do.

The ones doing the loudest criticising? In my experience — and I've seen a lot — they're rarely the best at anything. They're just the most insecure.

Real strength doesn't need an audience. And it never needs to make someone else feel small to feel big.

The Mariolis Method: MOVE.THINK.EVOLVE
Forty years in. Still learning. Still delivering.

05/10/2026

Thanks, but i prefer MY way!

We all understand what is meant by the 'generational gap' but this is getting to be a bit ridiculous!

There isn't a day I walk into the gym and I don't see a very overweight person - first time in the gym, — nervous, anxious — and the "PT" with chest puffed, escorts him to the deadlift, and that's the first thing they do.

No warm up. No friendly chat - and that becomes their introduction to weight training. Or, a junior is introduced to the leg press for the very first time – and he’s struggling - with no weight, and the PT says "great job" and adds a plate each side – knees are caving in the whole way, feet so wide apart they've got to message each other just to stay in touch. And my favourite - balancing on the Bosu ball on a bench on one leg, KB in the other hand, reaching down to the low pulley cable with the other doing a Cirque Du Soleil kinda thing that defies gravity and logic.

That I see almost every day.
We have a problem.
Almost every direction I look, — so few people are doing movements that actually resemble exercise. Form? Out the window. Functionality? Not needed. Common sense? What’s that?

Bodies with no brains, no connection to the movement they're doing or how it connects to their own physiology. And no one to offer a few words of advice, direction or help.

For someone who has spent over four decades studying human movement and coaching people, it is bloody hard to just look the other way.

Once upon a time (yeah, showing my age) - sounds like a fairy tale - but people would not only welcome a few words of advice and direction, they also showed respect and appreciation. Today, my inside voice screams – insisting I go over and just say: 'hey - try this.'
Some time ago I actually did that. She was on the cable doing what was meant to be a tricep pushdown but looked more like an arm assisted Good Morning with a sort of hip hinge thrown in! I very professionally and politely offered a little tweak. She lit up — "Ooooh, I really feel that! Yes! It's right in my triceps." Surprised!

Big smile on her face. She then said, and not politely like me, "Thanks, but I prefer to do it my way if that's okay. Please don't interrupt me again."

There you go! The 'generational gap.'

When ego and wilful ignorance completely trump decades of qualified experience, you realise the game has changed.
So now I just do my own thing, keep my head down and search Facebook Marketplace for a good pair of blinkers.
God help the next generation.

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