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MARIS MARTINSONS

I spent 7 years training hard and going absolutely nowhere. That's the reason I coach the way I do.

Coaching since 2014, hundreds of men, and I still compete myself, so everything I ask of a client I've done first. The men I work with are already good at hard things. Business owners, directors, engineers, doctors. Men who train, put in the effort, and can't work out why their body stopped responding.

I know exactly how that feels, and I know how long it lasts if nobody helps.

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YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF:

☑️ You want to be lean and muscular, not just lighter

☑️ You train consistently, and your body hasn't changed in months

☑️ You're successful everywhere else, and this is the one thing you can't sort out

☑️ You don't know what to change next, so you keep changing everything

☑️ You need someone to tell you what actually works

☑️ Your plan collapses the moment work gets busy

☑️ You're happy to do the work.

I CAN HELP YOU ACHIEVE THE FOLLOWING:

☑️ A lean, muscular shape that's obvious in a shirt and obvious out of one

☑️ Training that fits a demanding week instead of fighting it

☑️ A way of eating that survives client dinners, travel and the weekend

☑️ Sleep that actually restores you, and energy that holds past three in the afternoon

☑️ Strength and health you keep into your fifties, not just for twelve good weeks

☑️ An understanding of why it all works, so when the coaching ends, you don't need me

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Business owners, engineers, doctors.

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Everyone treats their hours as fixed and their energy as whatever’s left over.

It works the other way round.

You can’t add hours.

But…

You can radically change what you’re capable of inside the ones you have.

I went from 20 minutes of walking a day to 80, every day.

On paper, that’s an hour gone from an already full schedule.

But in practice, I got more done, not less.

-Fat came off without touching my training or food.
-Energy went up.
-Mood and focus improved enough that the work itself got faster.

When your energy is genuinely good, you stop needing the recovery time you used to build your evenings around.

-No collapsing on the sofa at eight.
-No scrolling for an hour because your brain’s too fried to do anything useful.

That dead time disappears, and it was costing far more than the hour I “spent” on walking.

So the hour wasn’t a cost.
It was the thing that made the other 15 work properly.

If you’re the man saying he hasn’t got time to train, this is the cheapest possible starting point.

No gym, no kit, no plan.

Just walk more than you currently do and watch what happens to everything else.

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@maris_martinsons1

Day 82: Rest Between Sets
 Rushing your rest isn’t intensity.
It’s cardio with a barbell.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Being out of shape makes everything else harder.

Not just the gym… EVERYTHING.

Your energy at 3 pm.
How you feel walking into a room full of people.
Whether you take the call or put it off.
Whether you say the thing or swallow it.

You’ve been playing on hard mode for so long you’ve forgotten there’s another setting.

Confidence doesn’t come from compliments.
It comes from having proof, visible, daily proof, that you set out to do something difficult and you did it.

That evidence follows you into meetings, conversations, decisions.

It changes how you take up space.
Same life, same job, same people, but different setting.

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Day 81: Pick A Lane
 Plan or track.
Both work.

Winging it isn’t a third option.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Your muscle has no idea what’s written on the plate.

It can’t count, it can’t see, and it doesn’t care what you told your mates you’re benching.

All it responds to is tension.
How much force it produced, through how much range, for how long.

This is why two men can bench the same weight, and only one of them has a chest.

The first man puts the tension through his pecs.
The second bounces it off his ribcage, cuts the range short, and spreads the load across his shoulders and triceps.

On paper, it’s the same number.
Completely different signal to the muscle.

It’s why chasing the number is the most common way intelligent men waste years.

The weight goes up (so does ego), but the physique stays exactly where it was.

Now flip it.
If your muscle only responds to tension, you can create a genuine growth signal with far less weight than you think.

Slow the rep.
Control the lowering.
Pause in the stretched position.
Keep the muscle loaded rather than letting the joints and momentum take over.

Suddenly, a weight that looks unimpressive becomes brutally hard, and your body responds accordingly.

This is the trade-off which is worth understanding.
Heavier is not the same as harder.
Harder is what builds you.
.
Comment “AUDIT”, and I’ll send you my 90 second training audit.
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Day 80: Log The Session
 You can’t beat last week if you can’t remember last week.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

@luke.kerr.503 trained harder than anyone I know.
And it was getting him almost nowhere.

He’s an engineer, a new dad, doing 14-hour days.

By himself, he already lost 48 kg through sheer willpower and suffering.

The problem wasn’t effort.
The man had effort in spades.

He was training 2 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Eating chicken and broccoli every single meal, for 12 months straight.

His words: “It’s depressing.”

And after all that?

He was still stuck.
Stagnant for months, going through the motions, starting to lose interest

One bad weekend away from sliding back into the eating and the drinking for good.

Here’s what he had backwards.
He thought more was the answer.

More sessions, more restriction, more punishment.
So when he slipped, he’d punish himself harder.

We did the opposite:
-4 focused training days, 60 minutes max.
-A way of eating with a high day built in, so when the “fat man comes knocking”, he waits till Saturday and plans the pizza in, instead of blowing up the whole week.

That’s the Body Rebuild Blueprint™, training that reshapes your body without eating your life.

The result in 12 weeks:
-More muscle than he’d built in the previous two years.
-Leaner, bigger, stronger.

His words: “I go to bed after a full day of eating and still look ripped and jacked.”

But the part he didn’t expect?

He got his life back.

Before, he’d train for 2 hours, eat, sleep, and never see his family.

Now he trains smarter, sees his friends, and he and his family are happier.

Luke had the discipline of ten men and the structure of none.
We only had to fix the second bit.

If you’re training hard and getting nowhere, grinding more sessions and staying exactly the same, the problem isn’t your effort.

It’s your plan.

Comment START, and I’ll show you what the first step looks like.

Day 79: You’re Not Drinking Enough Water
 Half your snacking isn’t hunger.
It’s thirst wearing a disguise.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

3 weeks ago I said I wasn’t excited about the first show because nothing had been hard yet.

Well… It got hard this week.

257.2 lbs on the scale, down just 1 lb.

The drop’s slowing, and that’s exactly what it should be doing this close in. The big fat came off months ago.

What’s left are fine details, and that’s not a huge amount of weight on the scale.

If you judge this stage by the scale alone, you’ll talk yourself into doing something stupid.

On Sunday I felt a tiredness I haven’t felt in this entire prep.

Not the tired that comes from a long day or not enough sleep.

Different…   Legs and body feeling heavy, brain flat.

That’s the tired that comes from low food and carbs running out.

If you’ve never dieted properly, you won’t recognise it.
If you have, you knew exactly what I meant.

Went kayaking with clients that afternoon. Had to go home and sleep it off afterwards.

No issues with doing full-intensity training sessions for months, but wiped out by a couple of hours on the water.

That’s the diet finally kicking in.

Food drops again from today.

-4 weeks out
-Training days come down to 3,175 calories, from 3,553.
-Rest days are the same at 2,977.
-Cardio goes from 60 minutes to 80.

Hunger has fully arrived now, which, after months of my medication flattening my appetite to nothing, is a strange thing to be pleased about.

For most of this prep I’ve been forcing food down. Now I finish a meal and want more.

Am I excited yet?
Not quite… Give it a week, and I think it lands.

Here’s something worth mentioning…

For 4 months this ran smoothly, and part of me read that as it not counting. Now it’s uncomfortable, and something’s switching on.

That instinct is worth examining, because it’s not just a bodybuilding problem.

A lot of guys decide that if a thing isn’t difficult, it doesn’t count. So they add work they don’t need, chase harder instead of smarter, and burn out without reaching their goals.

Difficulty isn’t proof that something’s working.
It’s just the point where most people stop.

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Day 78: Stop Cutting, Start Building
 You keep sanding down a piece of wood that was never carved.
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Day 77: The Hotel Room Test
 Travel doesn’t stop your training.
It stops you from training the way you prefer. 
Follow for tomorrow’s set.

From the 20 people who qualified as personal trainers alongside me back in 2014, I know one other person still doing it.

One out of twenty, ten years later!

My instructor warned us.
He said after the first year, 90% would be gone from the industry.

I thought he was being dramatic.
Well… He wasn’t.

When you imagine becoming a PT, you picture qualifying, joining a gym, and clients coming to you.
You train them, you change their lives.
Simple right?

But what actually happens is this.

You join a gym where nobody knows you.
You have zero track record.
Zero proof you can help anyone.

And nobody taught you how to get clients, just how to train them.

So you walk the gym floor for hours, unpaid.

Trying to find an excuse to speak to someone.
Hovering near people doing exercises wrong, hoping they’ll make eye contact so you can offer help.

I can only imagine how cringe I came across some days.

I had no clue how to approach people.

I’d stand in the corner watching someone I could clearly help, heart racing, palms sweating, body completely locked up.

15 minutes would pass, and I’d have said nothing.
Putting my hand in fire would have been easier (I’m not kidding).

Eventually someone gives you a chance.
Not because you’re brilliant, but because they like you as a person, or they see your physique and think maybe you know what you’re doing.

That one person becomes your proof.
And if you genuinely care about their results, they become your second referral, then your third.

But it’s painfully slowwwwww…

Because the whole time you’re spending hours in a gym not getting paid is why most people quit.

The gap between what they expected and what’s actually happening is too wide.

The ones who survive aren’t the most talented or the most qualified.

They’re the ones who cared enough about helping people that they were willing to be broke, embarrassed, and ignored until it worked.

I was all three, for longer than I’d like to admit.

But I’m still here!
And that other guy from my class?
He is too.

Everyone else moved on.

Lasting isn’t glamorous, but it’s the only thing that matters when it comes to success.

Willpower is overrated!

Every man I’ve coached who thought willpower was the answer eventually broke.

Because life keeps throwing shit at you, and willpower runs out long before life stops testing it.

The men who actually stay lean and strong long-term don’t have more willpower than you.

They’ve built 3 skills you probably haven’t.

Skill 1: Pattern recognition.

You don’t reach for shit food because you’re weak. You reach for it when you’re bored at work, watching Netflix, scrolling your phone. That’s not a discipline problem. It’s a pattern!

Once you can see the pattern, you can break it before it triggers.
Most men never look at their behaviour long enough to spot it.
So it becomes a permanent issue.

Skill 2: Tactical laziness.

Sounds strange coming from a coach, but the men who hold their results make it stupidly easy to stay consistent.

They prep meals when they have energy, they keep the good food where they can see it, they remove the crap from the kitchen entirely.

No willpower required, because there’s nothing to resist.
If your environment fights against your goals, you’ll lose every time.

Skill 3: Stress awareness.

If you ignore this, nothing else matters.
Stress spikes hunger, wrecks your sleep, kills your energy, and dismantles your habits within days.

Most men power through it.
Then blame themselves when they fall off the plan.
The real problem here is the plan you built without accounting for the pressure you’re actually under.

Willpower isn’t a strategy; best you can call it wishful thinking.

Pattern recognition, environment design, and stress management are.

Get those 3 right and the fat loss will take care of itself.

Not sure why your training isn’t working?
There are only 3 things it could be. Take my 90 second audit, and I’ll tell you which one is yours.

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Day 76: Same Time, Every Night
 Weekend lie-ins give you jet lag without leaving the country.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

The formula is simple 🤓

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Day 75: Give Up Your Old Identity
 Your current body is your current habits.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

There’s a finite window, and most men only notice it once it’s shut.

Your 30s and 40s are the last stretch where building a genuinely strong, athletic body is straightforward: recovery still works, your joints still cooperate, and you’ve got enough years left to properly enjoy the result rather than just admire it briefly.

That window doesn’t slam, it closes quietly, one postponed year at a time, while you tell yourself things will calm down soon.

They won’t!

Busy is not a phase you’re passing through, it’s the rest of your life, and every man worth respecting is dealing with the same thing.

The men who get it done aren’t less busy than you.

They just decided at some point that “later” was a lie they’d stopped telling themselves.

“One day I’ll” often becomes “I wish I did.”

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Day 74: Train Around It, Not Through It
 A niggle is a detour, not a dead end.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Most men who’ve trained for years have never felt a proper contraction.

They’ve felt effort, fatigue, a bit of a “pump”, but not the muscle which should be doing the work.

Here’s why.

Let’s take bench press, for example.

When you bench press without knowing what your chest is meant to feel like, your shoulders, triceps and joints will take over.

You still will be moving the weight, and the set will still feel hard.

But the muscle you were trying to build barely participates, which is why some men press respectable numbers for a decade and still have no chest.

Effort was never the problem; the load was going in the wrong place.

And it isn’t the programme; most programmes and exercises are fine.

What separates men who look like they lift from men who just lift?

It’s that one man knows exactly how to engage and train the muscle he is targeting on every rep, and the other is just moving weight from A to B.

The fix isn’t complicated, but it will humble you.

Drop the weight significantly.
Slow the rep down.
Pause at the point where the muscle is stretched and fully contracted.
Focus on squeezing that specific muscle rather than shifting the load.

It’ll feel embarrassingly light at first, but you’ll feel things you’ve never felt before, because for the first time the target muscle has been 100% engaged.

Once you know what a real contraction feels like, you can never unfeel it.
And you’ll realise how many years you spent training everything around a muscle instead of training it.

Comment “AUDIT”, and I’ll send you my 90 second training audit, it’ll show you where your training is leaking.

Day 73: Weekly Average, Not Daily Weight
 Nobody sells the company because the share price dipped on a Tuesday.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Nobody tells you that surviving prep comes down to gherkins. 😅

-5 weeks out.
-Weight is 258.4 lbs on the scale this week, down 3 lbs.
-Food’s at 3,500 on training days, 3,000 on rest days. That’s a 1,000 calorie drop from the week before.
-Cardio’s an hour.

Those are the numbers, and they’re the least interesting part of this post.

Here’s what actually gets me through a contest prep at 5 weeks out.

Gherkins!

A jar of them in the fridge at all times.
Savoury, crunchy, almost no calories, and they do something to the brain that a chicken breast can’t.

I’m not exaggerating when I say they’re a secret weapon. On days when I feel extra hungry, I have a whole jar, including liquid (the best part).

Everyone imagines prep is willpower.
Some monk-like state where you stare down a plate of boring chicken and rice (I haven’t even eaten rice in more than a year!)

It actually is a hundred small mechanical decisions you set up in advance so that willpower never has to get involved.

You don’t resist the thing you can not have; you build a life where the thing isn’t in front of you, but something else that benefits you is.

The other thing worth reporting: hunger’s finally arrived.

After months of my medication flattening my appetite to nothing and force-feeding myself 6 meals a day, food now lands exactly right.

I finish a meal satisfied rather than forcing it. That’s the first time this entire prep.

Hunger is not a bad thing. It’s a signal from your body that it’s burning body fat.

From here, I know my body will change fast.

Day 72: Your Body Isn’t A Separate Category
 You’d never run your business on guesswork.
Why run yourself that way?
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Most men have never actually trained their back properly. They’ve done some arm training with a bit of back.

Here are the 5 reasons it isn’t growing:

1. You’re pulling with your arms. Your biceps take over and your lats barely fire. Stop thinking about pulling the handle, think about driving your elbows down and back, like putting them in your back pockets. Your hands are hooks, nothing more. If your forearms and biceps burn before your lats, there’s your answer.

2. You’re cutting the stretch short. Half-range reps because the weight’s too heavy to control at the bottom. Most of the growth signal comes from the stretched position. Let your arms fully extend, let your shoulder blade travel forward, pause a second. Humble yourself and pull down the weight.

3. You’re heaving, not lifting. Swinging, bouncing, using momentum to move a weight your back can’t handle. Your lower back does the work, your lats do nothing. Drop the load 20%, keep your torso still, make the muscle move the weight. If your body’s rocking, the weight is picking you.

4. You only pull in one direction. Rows build thickness, pulldowns build width. Doing one and ignoring the other will not build a complete back. Every week: one vertical pull and one horizontal pull.

5. You train it once a week and never progress it. Same weights, same reps, month after month. Hit your back twice a week and beat something every session: one more rep, slightly more weight, better control. Write it down, because you won’t remember, and if you’re not tracking it, you’re not progressing it.

Fix these, and it changes within 3 months.

Comment “AUDIT”, and I’ll send you my 90-second training audit for even better results.

Day 71: Eat The Same Food
 Lean men aren’t more disciplined.
They just made the decision once.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

In 2017, I got a message on Instagram offering me a job as a butler in the buff.

My first thought? Absolutely not.

I was one of the shyest people you’d ever meet.

The idea of getting my arse out in front of strangers made my stomach turn.

And what if my clients found out? What would they think of their personal trainer serving drinks half naked at hen parties?

But I was broke, I mean, properly broke.
I had no family here, no safety net.
If bills didn’t get paid, I’d be on the street.

So I reframed it in my mind.
I told myself: “You’re shy, you’re insecure. If you can do this job, is there any social situation in life you won’t be able to handle?”

Plus, it was £120 for two hours; I ended up applying.

First job was a hen party with 40 women.

My partner was supposed to show me the ropes. Instead, he threw me straight in at the deep end.

He suggested a game where the bride sits blindfolded and guesses people by touching their bum.

A few girls went first, and then he looked at me and said: “You go.”

My heart dropped!

There I was, just an apron on, bare arse out, standing in front of a blindfolded bride, 40 pairs of eyes on me.

My heart was absolutely pounding, and I was thinking: “What am I doing with my life?”

It turned out to be a good laugh; the bride took it well and was pleasantly surprised.

That moment taught me something I couldn’t have learned any other way.

With each job after that, it got easier.

After a couple hundred hen parties and birthdays, I stopped being self-conscious.
Quite frankly, I just stopped caring.

It’s like living next to a train station.
At first, the noise drives you mad, but eventually you don’t even hear it.

That job didn’t just pay my bills, and helped me cruise through one of the most financially hard periods of my life.

It killed the voice in my head that kept telling me everyone was watching, everyone was judging, everyone cared what I was doing.

Turns out, they don’t.
The only person who ever cared that much was me.

Day 70: The First Ten Minutes
 A cold engine takes effort to turn over.
Once it’s running it wants to go.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Here’s something I never thought I’d admit as a coach.

Most men don’t need more information.

In my early coaching days, I lost clients from my program because I gave them too much too soon and overwhelmed them. Hard lesson to learn, especially when I was just trying to help.

But if I’m honest, you probably already know what foods are nutritious, how to train effectively, and why sleep matters.
Knowing isn’t the problem.
Doing is.

And here’s why most men can’t do it consistently, because most plans completely ignore the messiest part of change.
Real life.

The days when work runs late, when the kids are sick, when you land off a flight at 11pm knackered, when a client dinner runs into a 3 course meal you didn’t plan for.

Those aren’t obstacles to your goals.
They ARE your life.

Any plan that doesn’t survive them isn’t a plan.
It’s a fantasy.

That’s why inside the Metabolic Breakthrough Program, I start with one non-negotiable idea.

Your plan should work around your life, not the other way around.

I don’t ask you to restructure your schedule, give up your social life, or become a different person.
Instead, we look at where you actually are, what genuinely fits your calendar, and what you can hold for months, not just 6 weeks.

Because the best plan isn’t the most aggressive one.
It’s the one you can actually stick to when the week goes sideways.

Nick dropped 10kg of fat in 12 weeks this way.

Not by following some perfect plan, but by building one that survived his life.

If you already know what to do but can’t seem to make it stick, you don’t need more information.

You need a system built for the way you actually live.

Not sure why your training isn’t working?
There are only 3 things it could be.
Take my 90 second audit and I’ll tell you which one is yours.

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Day 69: The Cookie Recipe
 Four out of five ingredients don’t get you 80% of a cookie. It gets you a bad one.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Day 68: Drive Is The Differentiator
 You can’t warm your hands on a match someone else is holding.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

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EDUCATE

BUILD

SUSTAIN

GENESIS BODY TRANSFORMATIONS

Helping Ambitious Men To
Build The Best Shape Of Their Life

Online Coaching That Works Around Your Schedule

"Your Training Should Fit Your Life.
Not The Other Way Round."

MEET YOUR COACH

MARIS MARTINSONS

Training hard and your body hasn't changed in 6 months?
There are 3 reasons why.

Most men fall into one of them and have no idea which. 12 questions tells you which one is yours, what it's costing you, and one thing you can change today. Takes about 90 seconds.

IMAGINE RESULTS LIKE THESE!

MEN WHO WERE WHERE YOU ARE
Business owners, engineers, doctors.

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One to one online coaching for people with demanding careers.

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COACHING

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HOW CAN I HELP YOU?

Book a call, and we'll work out what's actually stopping you
and whether I'm the right person to fix it.

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EDUCATE

BUILD

SUSTAIN

GENESIS BODY TRANSFORMATIONS

Helping Ambitious Men To Build The Best Shape Of Their Life

Online Coaching That Works Around Your Schedule

"Your Training Should Fit Your Life. Not The Other Way Round."

MEET YOUR COACH

MARIS MARTINSONS

Training hard and your body hasn't changed in 6 months? There are 3 reasons why.

Most men fall into one of them and have no idea which. 12 questions tells you which one is yours, what it's costing you, and one thing you can change today. Takes about 90 seconds.

IMAGINE RESULTS LIKE THESE!

MEN WHO WERE WHERE YOU ARE Business owners, engineers, doctors.

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One to one online coaching for people with demanding careers.

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Helping Ambitious Men To
Build The Best Shape Of Their Life

"Your Training Should Fit Your Life.
Not The Other Way Round."

Training hard and your body hasn't changed in 6 months?
There are 3 reasons why.

MEN WHO WERE WHERE YOU ARE
Business owners, engineers, doctors.

ONLINE
COACHING

Book a call, and we'll work out what's actually stopping you
and whether I'm the right person to fix it.

Not ready for a call? Take the training audit first.
12 questions, 90 seconds.