Coach Paul

Men look and feel better with more muscle mass and less body fat. Size AND definition. Want results like these studs? Use the link in bio to explore working with me 1-on-1.

My dad turned 65 this week. Owns his business. Still working. Celebrated with hot pot at home. Seemed genuinely happy. He asked me what fitness equipment he should order for his farm in the PNW. I ordered him adjustable dumbbells and resistance bands. Keep it simple for now. That question stayed with me though. A man who's still curious, still building, still asking questions at 65 is doing it right. Most guys check out in their 30s. Never retire on your health. It's the one investment that pays everything else back.

Mobility work isn’t about becoming a yoga guy. It’s about still being able to move heavy weight at 50 without your body filing for bankruptcy. Most gym injuries are strains and tears. Muscles stretching past what they can handle because there’s no strength in those deeper ranges. One awkward rep and suddenly you’re explaining to your wife why you need help putting on socks. Mobility fixes that. You build control where most guys are brittle. Your big lifts improve because you can actually access full range. Recent studies even show stretching itself builds muscle. And that chronic tension you’re carrying in your hips and shoulders isn’t just physical. Clear that up and your head feels better too. Stress likes to hide in tight muscles. The key: treat it like strength work. Cut the junk volume. Focus for a minute or two per movement. Actually progress the range and load over time. Intentional, not going through the motions while scrolling your phone. Here I’m hitting cossack squats for my hips. Cheap insurance.

@CoachFHM The shake weight was by far the most comical one

Just to be clear. See a lot of ads in the fitness space about “all you need is 2 kettlebells to get jacked” All spun by fellas who are jacked/ripped etc. You can see how the average person falls for this shit. These people have likely spent 10-15 years doing traditional strength/bodybuilding style training. Built the lion share of their size with conventional methods. Now they’ve switched to kettlebells and just end up maintaining what they’ve built. It’s just like me right now switching to some bollocks training method and getting beginners on the hook. Don’t fall for the nonsense.

@CoachDanGo Appreciate it Dan. You’ve put out a lot of good stuff on this too! Mobility’s one of those things most think is optional until it isn’t.

@CoachPauI Impressive Paul!

@StephenStorey Feel so much better afterwards every time

@CoachPauI Just finished a mobility session.

Trick is I don’t force it when I genuinely don’t want to. That feeling usually means something like my body signaling accumulated fatigue. Where I actually use a mental edge is mid-set pushing hard. And visualizing my desired outcome gets me there.

The guy in 1985 had a photocopied workout from his buddy, a barbell, and some eggs. And he got jacked. The guy in 2026 has an Oura ring, a CGM, a cold plunge, peptide injections, a monthly bill from a longevity clinic, and a supplement stack that looks like a small pharmacy. And when he mentions his workout regimen, people say “oh really?” with that polite surprise that makes it clear they couldn’t tell.

@user_mm_ @dscplnapp Cold plunge in the podcast studio after 🥂

@CoachPauI @dscplnapp Reading, while running with your friends from run club, on the treadmills in the gym thats located within in the coworking space 🧠 ⚡️

Simply spending some time in a better environment, around people whose achievements you want to emulate, can often be enough. One such place is called “the gym”.

@dscplnapp Reading while running at the gym? 👀 @user_mm_

@CoachPauI The hack is simple: put yourself where the behavior you want is normal. Gym. Library. Running club. Coworking space.

If you went from a 100% donut diet to a 50% donut diet, you’d get better results. Not because the new framework is genius. Because the baseline was so bad that almost anything is an improvement. This is what happens with most diet transformations. Guy feels terrible. Discovers carnivore, or keto, or some version of clean eating. Cuts out the processed junk, starts eating more protein, feels dramatically better. Naturally concludes that the diet was the answer. But if you look closer, what usually happened is: He removed the foods he was eating in truly unreasonable quantities. He started prioritizing protein, probably for the first time. And he did this with enough structure that it actually stuck for a few weeks. Three things, none of them magic. Now here’s the part that gets me: after all that, he still went all the way to eliminating potatoes. As if jasmine rice was making him fat. As if a banana was the enemy. The question worth asking isn’t whether a diet “works.” Almost anything works relative to what came before. The question is whether it sticks. Whether it’s sustainable. Whether someone’s doing it in five years. A hyper rigid framework that eliminates a massive percentage of foods? My honest guess is somewhere between one and five percent of people are still on it years later. Which means ninety-something percent are back to figuring it out. That’s not a diet. That’s a reset with a timer on it.

This shouldn’t have to be said but: Don’t take advice from fat doctors, barbers with bad haircuts, dentists with crappy teeth, or coaches who aren’t jacked.

@greggwaters369 It’s the opposite, you misinterpreted but I can see how.

@CoachPauI Seriously? Why all the hate for iced cream?

Not your average ice cream enjoyer

@terramanehair @Casebradford @alecsicecream There’s levels to it my friend. You don’t want to get yourself hurt.

@Casebradford @CoachPauI @alecsicecream I CHALLENGE COACH PAUL TO A PINTOFF

Alec’s is the move.

@BrGeezy Yes

@CoachPauI Better than Ice Cream for Bears?

80% of the reason you should get jacked, beyond aesthetics: 1. Bloat-free lifestyle 2. Sexual marketplace dynamics and libido 3. Control your narrative 4. Mood regulation and emotional stability 5. Natural Adderall

5. Natural Adderall: You know the kind of person that gets work done on a plane while an infant is crying in the next seat? That’s the level of focus you get from lifting consistently. You can thank a gene called BDNF which gets activated in your brain, keeps your mind sharp.

Why looking good is only 20% of getting jacked: Thread.