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

Most men can’t answer this one question honestly: “Can you actually feel the muscle you’re training?”

What you get most of the time is: “yeah kind of.”

But do you actually feel it every rep, every set?

What happens with most guys is.

You warm up with the empty bar and you feel it.
You add 60kg and you feel it.
You add 80kg and you feel it.

You load up 100kg for your working set, and suddenly, you can barely feel a thing.

You may be moving weight from A to B, but that’s not the same as training your muscles to get bigger.

You are letting other muscles take over to move the weight.

And it’s the exact reason men train for years and don’t build the physique they want.

Muscle doesn’t respond to how much you lifted.
It responds to how much tension you put through it.

If you can’t feel the muscle working, it’s not the one doing the work.

The lift is happening.
Just not on the muscle you’re trying to grow.

Here is the change you should make.

Every working set should feel exactly like your warm-up set: same connection, same tension, same awareness of the muscle contracting and stretching.

If the connection drops the moment the weight gets heavy, the weight is too heavy.

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.   Comment “audit” below.

Day 67: Muscle Is Your Pension
 Every session is a payment into a fund you’ll draw on for forty years.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Everything’s going right and it’s messing with my head.

Three years back to back and I’ve realised my excitement comes from the struggle, the chalanege.

Smooth prep, and part of my brain says it doesn’t count.

Why is it so easy?

It counts.

I just started leaner and trained smarter.

261lbs on the scale.
3,552 cals on training days.
2,977 rest days.
60 minutes cardio.

Day 66: Working Harder Isn’t The Answer
 A blunt axe swung a thousand times still won’t fell the tree.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Before Andy lost 20 kg at 48, he did something most men don’t: he walked up to my client he works with and asked, “Is this actually worth the money?”

Andy’s an engineer at a chocolate factory in Norwich. 48, with 50 coming up fast, and five years out of any real training after health problems knocked him back.

He’d got back into his garage gym but was spinning his wheels.

Low testosterone, sorted through his doctor with TRT, which helped him train again, but he still had no focus.

His words: “One minute I want to be massive, next minute I want to be lean. I was all over the place.”

Then we spoke. Turned out he already worked with my client Philip, his colleague at the same factory.

Before Andy committed, he did the smart thing: he asked if this was worth it.

Here’s what stopped him.
It wasn’t the training. It was the money and the doubt.

“How do people afford this? How’s this even going to work remotely?”

He’d used PT before at £20 a session. Paying up front for online coaching felt like a leap.

What changed his mind was Philip’s answer: “Why are you doing this? You’re investing in yourself.”

That reframe cracked it. Not paying a coach, but investing in himself, walking away with skills nobody can take back.

12 weeks in he said: “I don’t think it’d be any better if you were standing next to me.” 
The remote doubt was gone.
Any question, any hour, answered: plan, targets, check-ins, video calls when needed.

And the results? Down from 105 kg to 85 kg, and his first sign of abs since he was a kid.

But what he talks about most isn’t the mirror, it’s that his wife says she’s happier in his company now, because he’s not the grumpy, growly man he’d quietly become.

The point of all of it: he’s not dependent on me. He can tweak his own food, build his own training, run this for life.

That’s the Unstoppable Self stage, you don’t need the coach forever, you become the man who does this on his own.

His line for anyone on the fence: “The only person stopping you is you.”

If the cost or the “will this even work” doubt is holding you back, that’s the wall Andy stood at.

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Day 65: Average Isn’t What It Used To Be
 Walk around the supermarket and ask honestly whether you would swap body and life with any of them? 
Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Getting lean after 30 isn’t harder.
It’s just less forgiving of the mistakes you got away with at 22.

Most men don’t gain fat so much as they lose muscle.

Same number on the scale for ten years, completely different body underneath.

Which is why dieting alone makes it worse: strip weight without protecting muscle, and you arrive at your goal weight still soft, just smaller.

The deficit is the second trap.
Most men start too aggressively because they want it done fast.

Then a work trip, a late night, a weekend away, and the whole thing collapses.
A moderate deficit you can carry for four months beats a brutal one you quit in three weeks.

And the third one where most men actually lose. Not knowledge, but attention.

Six weeks cutting, then you decide to bulk, then a holiday appears, then back to cutting.

Three jobs started, but none of them finished.

Pick one.
Twelve weeks.

Comment “AUDIT”, and I’ll send you my training audit: 90 seconds, and it tells you exactly which of these is costing you and how to fix it.

Day 64: The Weekend Is Half Your Week
 Five days of rowing. Two days drilling holes in the boat.
That’s why you’re stuck.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

The man in this picture shaped my self-worth more than anyone else in my life.

For years, I didn’t even realise it.

But I never really sat down to figure out where it came from, until I got sick of feeling like a victim and decided to own it.

Because acknowledging a problem and fixing it are two very different things.
And fixing starts with finding the root.

Mine was simple.

I never got acknowledged for anything I did well. Especially from my dad.

As a little boy, your dad is the person you look up to.
You want his approval.
His encouragement.

A “well done” would have been enough.
I never got that.

But I always knew when I’d done something wrong.
If I said the wrong thing, behaved the wrong way, he made sure I knew about it.

It made me pull into myself.
I became self-conscious about everything.

The kid who was the class leader in kindergarten, always up for fun, turned into an introverted teenager who couldn’t connect with people.

I’d be at a party, surrounded by others, completely stuck in my own head.
Feeling out of place instead of being in the moment.

Even when I was a top 10 student almost every semester, still nothing.
Won competitions, set records in my twenties, still nothing.

Not a single “well done.”

But…
I don’t blame my dad.

He didn’t know better.
He never had his own dad around to show him how.

We never talked about feelings or relationships, that’s just not something you do in Eastern European culture.

He showed love the only way he knew how, buying me a PlayStation, gifts, things.

Trying to fix it with stuff because he couldn’t do it with words.

I’m certain he carried the same wound I did.
Just from his own father.

But as an adult, it’s your responsibility to fix your own patterns.

It doesn’t matter whose fault it was.

Blame doesn’t fix anything, it just builds a victim mentality.

So I asked myself: if someone else had achieved what I’ve achieved, would I be impressed?

The answer was always yes.
So why wasn’t I giving myself that same respect?

Now I don’t need a pat on the shoulder from anyone.

I give it to myself.

Day 63: Strength Is A Skill
 Musicians don’t punish the piano.
Stop punishing the barbell.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Day 62: Learn To Maintain
 Passing the test isn’t the skill.
Staying on the road for thirty years is.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

You know what nobody ever talks about when you’re trying to get in the best shape of your life?

The pressure of trying to change everything at once.

Just meal prep for the week, just train 5 times, just drink more water, just fix your sleep, just manage your stress.

It’s exhausting reading that list.

Let alone trying to do it all, perfectly, while running a business, raising kids, and handling a job that never really stops.

Here’s what 12 years of coaching has taught me.

When men try to change everything at once, they end up changing nothing.

They start Monday with 6 new habits.
By Thursday, 3 have collapsed.
By the following Monday, they’ve quit the entire thing and are back to square one, telling themselves they lack discipline.

They don’t lack discipline.
They lack a system.

Because you can only hold so much change at once.

It’s like juggling.

Add too many balls, and you drop them all.

Inside the Metabolic Breakthrough Program, I have one rule.

We change one thing at a time.
That’s it.

No overwhelming to-do lists, no lifestyle overhaul, no pressure to be perfect at everything from day one.

We pick the ONE thing that’ll move the needle most for you right now.
We nail it until it feels automatic.

Then we add the next piece.
Sounds too simple?

That’s exactly why it works.
Because it survives your worst weeks, not just your best ones.

Laurence lost 30 kilos of body fat using this approach.

Not by becoming a different man overnight.
By stacking one small win on top of another, for months.

If you’ve been trying to fix your body by trying to fix everything at once and burning out every time, this is why.

Not sure why your training isn’t working? There are only 3 things it could be.

Take my 1minute audit, and I’ll tell you which one is yours.

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Day 61: The Second Week Is Where It Dies
 The dip isn’t a sign it’s not working.
It’s a toll gate everyone pays.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Day 60: Your Body Isn’t Old, It’s Undertrained
 The car doesn’t run rough because it’s old.
It runs rough because nobody drove it.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Fewer sets, harder effort.
That’s the trade almost nobody makes in the gym.

Most men do it the other way round.

They spread mediocre effort across a lot of sets, because volume feels like commitment.

Twenty sets at seventy percent feels like a session.

Eight sets taken to failure feels like you’ve cheated somehow

But your muscle doesn’t count sets.

It responds to the quality of the stimulus you give it.

Eight brutal sets beat twenty half-hearted ones every single time, and they cost you a fraction of the recovery.

Here’s what changes when you cut the volume and raise the intensity.

You’re out of the gym in forty minutes instead of ninety, which means training survives a bad week at work instead of collapsing.

You recover properly, so you turn up to the next session capable of pushing rather than dragging yourself through it.

You stop dreading training.
Nobody sustains a routine that eats two hours and leaves them wrecked.

Plenty of men sustain 40 focused minutes for years.

The reason this works is simple.

Consistency over years beats intensity over weeks, and short, hard, efficient sessions are the only version most busy men will actually keep doing AND BUILD MUSCLE.

Train less.
Train harder.
Watch what happens.

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Day 59: Your Circle Is Your Ceiling
 People around you are the most important part of your environment.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Funny how “obsessive” only ever gets aimed in one direction.

Nobody calls it obsessive to watch three hours of telly a night.
Nobody calls it obsessive to drink every single weekend for twenty years.
Nobody calls it obsessive to check your phone two hundred times a day.

But cook your own food and train 4 times a week and suddenly you’ve got a problem.

Your habits aren’t offensive to anyone.
They’re just visible.

And visible discipline makes people examine their own, which is uncomfortable, so they reach for a word that makes it your fault instead.

Training 4 times a week is not an obsession.

It’s the cheapest investment you’ll ever make in how you feel for the next thirty years.

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Day 58: Every Yes Is A No
 Yes to the late meeting is no to the session.
Guard your yes.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

The scale went up 2 lbs in the last 7 days, but body composition is visibly leaner.

7 weeks out, from 262.8 lbs last week to 264.8 lbs today.

Judged on that number alone, it would be easy to think it’s going backwards.

Two 6,000-calorie days did that.

More food in the system means more muscle fullness in the form of glycogen and water.

The scale reacts to all of it, but none of the gained weight is fat.

That’s exactly what those days are for, and it worked.

This is where people come undone.

They see a number move the wrong way and panic away three weeks of good work.

The scale is one data point.
It isn’t the whole verdict.

Third year competing now, back to back.

I’ve got two full preps of my own data to measure against, and at the same point last year I was carrying less muscle and more fat.

Same stage, better condition.

You only know that if you’ve been here before and kept records.

From here it’s time to push.

Food comes down, and cardio goes from 40 to 60 minutes.
Everything else is running better than it should.

No energy dips and sleep’s outstanding.
Appetite’s finally back after months of forcing food down.
I’m actually looking forward to having some of my meals.

Day 57: Energy, Not Time
 Your phone doesn’t die because the day was too long.
It dies because nothing charged it.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

If you missed Part 1, check my previous post (me as a kid in the picture)

Charlie didn’t just tell me to become a PT.
He proved I could do it.

He passed me one of his own clients, Andrew, to train once a week for £15 an hour.
It wasn’t about the money. It was proof that someone would actually let me coach them.
That’s all I needed to take the next step.

Andrew and I are still in touch 10 years later.
He still tells me how good I was, even back then.
At the time, I didn’t believe him; I always found it hard to take compliments.

But it gave me just enough confidence to keep going.

Fast forward, I got my first proper PT job at Virgin Active gym.

I still remember the exact moment I signed up my first client, James.
£140 for four sessions.

I remember standing there thinking: “Are you actually going to pay me for this?”

Before the UK, I was earning £1.20 an hour making pizzas in Latvia during UNI times.

My best wage in England was £7.40 an hour in a factory.

I did jobs I hated, jobs that felt like they were draining my life away.

And now someone was handing me £140 to do something I loved so much I’d have done it for free.
Something that never felt like work. Training people came naturally to me in a way nothing else ever had.

But here’s what really happened for me.

James led to more clients.
More clients led to more results.
And the more results I got, the more I started to believe that maybe, just maybe, I was actually good at this.

The imposter syndrome didn’t disappear overnight.
But it got quieter every time a client told me their life had changed.

And that’s what’s kept me coaching for over 10 years now.

Not money, not recognition.
Fulfilment…

When a client says “I’m doing things I never thought I would” or “you changed my life”, nothing I’ve achieved for myself comes close to how that feels.

Not the powerlifting records.
Not the bodybuilding trophies.
Nothing.

That 10-year-old kid running in the early morning while the sun was rising had no idea this is where it would all lead.

But I’m glad he kept going.

Day 56: What Gets Tracked Gets Fixed
 Running your diet on guesswork is running a business without the accounts
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

I used to think everyone else had it figured out.

The men who eat well without thinking about it.
Guys who never miss a session.
Mates who make the whole thing look effortless.

Then I finally worked out what was actually going on.

They’re not effortless.
They’ve just got something you haven’t seen.

The leanest men I know still have to think about it. It only looks easy from the outside.

The guy in your gym who looks like he was born that way is following a plan.

The mate who “never puts weight on” is quietly working at it.

Nobody’s coasting and being lucky.

They’ve just got a system doing the heavy lifting instead of relying on willpower and good intentions.

That’s the real gap.

Not discipline, you’ve got plenty of that, and you’ve proved it everywhere else in your life.

Not effort, but structure.

Zafar runs an investment company, his discipline was never his issue.

He was already training before work most mornings, and still wasn’t getting anywhere.

Once he had a proper plan, he finally stripped off the last bit of the fat and got the abs and the shape he’d been chasing for years.

Same man, same effort, but different structure.

Some men keep trying to solve it alone, running on willpower, starting every Monday again.

Others get a system built around the life they actually live.

That’s what the Metabolic Breakthrough program is.

Not more hours in the gym.
Not another plan that dies the first busy week.

A structure that produces results whether the week goes perfectly or falls apart entirely.

Nobody’s got this figured out.

The men who look like they have just stopped doing it alone, and it’s the fastest change most of them ever made.

DM me “SYSTEM”, and I’ll show you what that structure looks like for your week.

Day 55: Train Movements, Not Muscles
 Stop watering the leaves with a teaspoon.
Water the roots.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

Day 54: You’re Not Hungry, You’re Bored
 If a plain chicken breast wouldn’t fix it, it’s not hunger.
 Follow for tomorrow’s set.

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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 six months?
There are three reasons why.

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

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EDUCATE

BUILD

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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 six months? There are three reasons why.

Most men fall into one of them and have no idea which. Twelve 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.

ONLINE 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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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 six months?
There are three 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.