About
I'm Rob, and I've been getting this wrong and then right for a decade
I've trained seriously for over ten years. Not all of it well. I spent a good few of those years doing far too much volume, chasing whatever the internet was excited about that month, and wondering why the numbers weren't moving.
What changed things was getting boring about it. Fewer exercises, more attention to whether the weight on the bar was actually going up, and finally taking the food side seriously instead of hoping it would sort itself out.
Then I had kids, and the whole thing had to survive contact with a normal week. That turned out to be the interesting problem, and it's the one I've been working on ever since.
What I think the problem actually is
Not willpower. Friction.
Training asks for one decision a week. Eating well asks for thirty a day and then judges you for the ones you get wrong. Most plans answer that by demanding more discipline, which works right up until the first bad week.
The alternative is to make the daily decisions so cheap that a bad week costs you a bad week rather than a restart. That's what CalorieBot is for, and it's why the community is built the way it's.
Why it's called Fit Legacy
Because of the photograph beside this. Kids copy what they see, and the version of you they grow up watching is the one they'll end up arguing with in their forties.
I've got three of them. Being able to keep up with them now, and still be around and useful when they're my age, is a more honest reason to train than anything I could put on a sales page.
I used to sell coaching
For years this was a coaching business. I wrote programmes, read check ins and took calls, and more than 500 men lost at least 20 lbs doing it. The results are all still here.
I stopped taking one to one clients because everything ran through my attention, which put a hard ceiling on how many people I could help and made the whole thing fragile. So I rebuilt it: the tools do the tracking, the structure holds the week, and the room keeps you honest. If you do want me looking at your numbers each week, that's still available, it's just a tier rather than the whole business.
The rest of it
What do you actually do all week?
Write, answer questions in the community, and train four times. I'm in there every day, which is the bit I enjoy most.
How do you train now?
Four sessions, upper and lower, nothing clever. Short enough that they happen on the bad weeks too, which is the entire point.
What do you do that isn't fitness?
Veterans football on a Sunday morning, which is now the main reason I care about keeping my hamstrings attached. Guitar, badly and loudly. And I'll take any excuse to spend eight hours cooking something on the smoker.
Who is at home?
My wife and our three children. Most weekends involve a hill, a beach or a very long walk somewhere muddy, usually with somebody being carried for the last mile.
What do you eat?
Ordinary food. High protein, plenty of it, and nothing off limits. I log it with CalorieBot in about two seconds a meal, which is the only reason I've still been doing it for years rather than months.
What won't you do?
Put you on a sales call. Sell you a supplement. Tell you that you need to want it more. Pretend I never eat anything that comes with an umbrella in it.