@_dylanharrigan: You’re not paying me to agree with you. This client came to me wanting to grow. He’s already relatively lean, he wants more muscle, and naturally he wants to get straight into a surplus. But my job isn’t to make the decision that puts the biggest smile on his face today. My job is to look at the next 6, 9, 12 months and ask: what puts this bloke in the best possible position to actually improve? In this case, that means getting properly lean first. Not because he desperately needs to lose fat. Because if we start growing from a better position, I can potentially keep him there for 6–12 months instead of getting 14 weeks in, getting too sloppy, pulling food back and wasting another chunk of the year dieting again. That’s coaching. It’s not just knowing what to do. A lot of blokes already know enough to make progress. It’s having someone objective enough to make the call you’re too emotionally invested to make yourself, then explain it well enough that you understand exactly why you’re doing it. Sometimes I’ll tell you exactly what you wanted to hear. Sometimes I’ll tell you the complete fucking opposite. Either way, the decision is being made around one thing: What gives us the best chance of being better 12 months from now? That’s the standard of coaching required to achieve results. No yes men round here ✅

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Friday 11 September 2026 10:19:05 GMT