A semi-pro speed skater whose knees gave out, so the only tool I had ever used to stay at a low single digit body fat percentage was gone. This is how I found another way, and why I coach men who recognise that corner.
For over a decade I was a semi-pro speed skater, training almost every day. I was so lean that my body fat analyzer gave an error: too low to measure. I thought I was the picture of health.
Exercise can hide nutritional mistakes. I was masking mine with volume.
An old injury and demanding studies forced me to train less. I switched to Capoeira and some fitness, still three to five times a week. My hunger went up, my focus dropped and the weight crept on. When my Capoeira master visited from Brazil, he told me in front of everyone that I was fat. That stung. It was also true.
Less training did not cause the problem. It exposed it.
So I did what I knew and tried to run it off. Both menisci gave out. I could not run for five minutes without pain, and my knees swelled for days. The only tool I had ever used was gone.
If you are stuck with the one tool you trust, you know this corner.
Before
AfterI decided to treat my body like a research project. I stopped guessing and started studying, with the same academic way of thinking I use at work. It took years and many mistakes. Slowly I got leaner and sharper while training less, and the energy held.
Less effort, more result. That became the method.
I optimised systems for retail giants like Coolblue, MediaMarkt and Saturn, then ran my own interim practice. The job was always the same: take messy data and turn it into a decision someone can act on. That is what happens to your numbers every week.
Generic advice fails against a 60-hour week. I know, I lived one.
With that energy I left corporate and started my own company. Later I trained as a Certified Human Potential Coach and began coaching founders and executives who are smart, busy and stuck with a tool that stopped working.
In my forties, with two young kids and little sleep, I train twice a week at most. I am still in better shape than in my twenties.
If you prepare your mindset and body, achieving your goals becomes easier.
Not the other way around. Travel, long days and family are inputs, not excuses.
A good coach makes himself unnecessary. That is the goal of the six months.
Book your Clarity Call. You leave with your main health metrics, an experience-based timeline, an action plan around your work, travel and family, and your options: do it yourself or work with me. It is free. In return, I ask you to book it only if you are serious about making a change.
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