10/03/2023
For 99.999999% of people (myself included in that majority) getting ‘comp lean’ like this is a terrible idea…
Sure, you get to paint yourself bronze and take a bunch of ego stroking wa**er photos (exhibit A ⬆️) showing everyone how emaciated you were able to get by slowly and scientifically starving yourself. But on the flip side, you get all the fun side effects that almost none of the “fitness influencers” talk about:
✅ Cripplingly constant hunger (from when you open your eyes in the morning, until closing them later)
✅ No energy.
✅ Loss of strength.
✅ Increase in frequency of minor injuries (strains, tears etc)
✅ NO s*x drive.
✅ Extreme mood swings.
✅ General ongoing rage at everyone/everything.
There’s more… But you get the point.
Kel and I did these competitions just to prove to our clients at the time that our fat loss/muscle building systems were extreme effective regardless of how far you wanted to take them… But tbh, the drawbacks of trying to reach these sort of ‘aesthetic goals’ were eye opening even to us.
This is also why our training programs are generally built to train people in a more athletic/functional manner and why we don’t try to push people towards any sort of body composition extremes.
Because fitness models usually rely on a lot of caffeine, co***ne and pills to convince themselves that they ‘feel good’ and tbh they’re sh*****se athletes compared to… People who train like actual athletes. Who still look great, but can move freely and not feel like popping a hammy every time they kick a soccer ball.
This is one of the differentiating underlying elements in our online programs, training for function + aesthetics. If you want to know what training this way feels like, jump in on one of our $10 online programs (ya dog). If you don’t… Pls go get weaker and more injury prone training like your favourite TikTok influencer 🫡🫣🥴
Either way, don’t be deluded into thinking that people who are suuuper shredded actually feel good 🌝
