You are skinny-fat.
The worst of both worlds.
Soft and small.
Too pudgy for a tank top, too scrawny for a sweater.
(Congratulations. You hit the genetic lottery and still lost.)
You don’t want to be skinny-fat anymore.
No shit. Who would?
You’re lucky you found me.
Here’s the truth no Influencer™ wants to whisper between teeth-whitened grins:
Rebuilding your body isn’t difficult. On paper. Putting what’s on the paper into play is easier said than done because culture celebrates those capable of consuming an otherworldly amount of hot dogs in a microscopic amount of time.
In the end, every physical transformation process reduces to (for the most part) eating certain foods and doing certain exercises. And neither of these endeavors have to be as exhausting as some Influencers™ will have you believe. Should you eat fruit? What about bread? Put butter in your coffee? Wake up at four o’clock in the morning and squat until you sweat puddles (so Jocko Willink won’t recreate your nightmares)?
I suppose, right now, I could give you the blueprint.
Tell you exactly what foods to eat and what exercises to do. That’s probably what you’re looking for. But you won’t find it here because recipes without reasoning are a cruel prison for overthinking nerd brains.
What will happen when the Instagram algorithm catches wind of your new hobby? What will you do when you see the slender girl in the bikini say you need to stop eating meat and start eating twelve bananas every day? What about when the tanned shirtless guy in a gas station says you need to stop eating spinach and start eating beef jerky? When the well-coifed guy behind a microphone says the reason you can’t stick to a diet or exercise program is because you have a dopamine addiction and you’re dead meat (unless you detox, of course, the details of which can be found in his course that’s three easy payments of $197)?
Don’t know?
Pretend you want to make the best grilled cheese money can buy. You come to me and say, “JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO,” upon wherein I hand you my super secret recipe. I give you the holy recipe. Gruyère. Toasted sourdough. Buttered to hell and back. You clutch it like scripture. You believe.
But, you know, your phone is always listening. And the next time you hop on social media, you’re served a slice of content about grilled cheese with a big hairy headline that reads: “5 SHOCKING reasons should NEVER make a grilled cheese sandwich with gruyère (the fourth one blew my mind).
Suddenly you’re choking on a post that screams:
“NEVER USE GRUYÈRE: THE HIDDEN TOXIC TRUTH”
And now you’re sweating.
Panicked.
Second-guessing the sandwich and your entire existence.
This is the problem. Not your body. Not your willpower.
It’s the noise.
Your fight-or-flight response kicks on because the cherished recipe I gave you makes use of gruyère cheese. Your body dumps adrenaline into bloodstream. Your heart rate goes through the roof. And, soon after, the motivation you had to make the grilled cheese according to my recipe sinks south of the Titanic because you’re dragged down by doubt.
Not good.
This is why 6-Pack School is more reasoning than recipe. And, hopefully, with this reasoning, you’ll be to separate signal from noise and build the sort of body that turns heads without trying.
That’s why 6-Pack School isn’t a recipe book.
It’s a signal tower.
I won’t hand you a fish. I’ll slap it out of your hands and teach you to gut it.
Because when you understand why things work—why your body stores fat like it’s prepping for winter in the Hunger Games—you become immune to trend-chasers, doom-posters, and dopamine detox evangelists.
And then?
To begin this process, continue ahead to Part 2 of 6-Pack School.
Appearance
Are you a medical monstrosity? You can’t escape your bone structure. Great genetics. Hunting baboon.
Table of Contents
This catalog will help you build a lean and muscular body so that the thought of being in shirtless in public doesn’t give you a panic attack.