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Eat Train Prosper, by coaches Aaron Straker and Bryan Boorstein provides tangible advice about lifting, nutrition, and incorporating these into your lifestyle to achieve prosperity. Topics include sustainable training principles for increasing strength, building muscle, effective nutrition to get and stay lean, men's health, improving recovery, and practical lifestyle habits. Become the champion of your own health, both inside and out. Language: en-us Genres: Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Decisions That Shaped Our Fitness Careers | ETP#230
Saturday, 24 October, 2026
This one steps away from the training and nutrition stuff to talk about what actually built our careers in fitness. It came out of a question Aaron sat with before he left his software job to coach full time, which was basically, if it takes me ten years to make it, is it worth it? At 30, the answer was yes, and the episode kind of works back from there through the decisions that got us both to where we are now.The fitness space is a weird one. A ton of people want to work in it, and most of them end up washing out, so we get into why that did not happen to either of us. That starts with what making it even meant early on versus what it means now. In the beginning it was just not drowning, then it was comfortable, and eventually it became actually being able to provide for a family, which changes the math completely. There is also a lot in here about the stuff nobody really warns you about with self-employment, like how you kind of become unemployable because you know too much, and why the number you are at matters way less than the direction you are heading.The back half gets pretty honest about the expensive lessons. Aaron turned about 60 grand into almost nothing on an ad team and a mentorship he had no business buying into, and Bryan took two gyms that were both crushing and consolidated them into one, which ended up being the beginning of the end. We also get into the accolades we figured would change everything and mostly just did not, the pro card included. Then we close it out with the one piece of advice each of us would give someone who is a year or two in, or still sitting on the fence about quitting the day job.Covered in this episodeThe question that started it all: if it takes ten years to make it, is it worth itWhat "making it" meant in the beginning versus what it means nowThe three phases: not drowning, comfortable, then providing for a familyWhy you eventually become unemployable because you know too muchReverse engineering money problems instead of living on a fixed incomeThe no-days-off reality of self-employment, and how we each frame itThe turning point where the gym finally felt sustainableWhy trajectory matters more than whatever state you are in right nowAaron's never-going-back moment: a year of 10 out of 10 sales calls and a launch that sold out in 15 hoursWhether the pro card, or any accolade, actually changed anythingThe frustrating truth that the same advice lands differently once you look the partThe biggest money mistakes: ad teams and expensive mentorshipsBryan on consolidating two gyms into one and bleeding membersRegrets, moving to Asia, and the Undefeated bet that has not paid back financially yetThe group bodybuilding class as an underserved ideaOne piece of advice to your younger self, and protecting your name along the wayTimestamps00:00:00 - Intro and updates00:10:25 - The question that started it: if it takes ten years, is it worth it00:11:49 - What making it meant then versus now00:13:15 - The three phases, from not drowning to providing for a family00:18:10 - Becoming unemployable because you know too much00:22:04 - The no-days-off reality of self-employment00:24:19 - The turning point where it finally felt sustainable00:29:01 - Why trajectory matters more than state00:30:01 - Aaron's never-going-back moment: sales calls and a sold-out launch00:32:55 - Whether the pro card or any accolade actually changed things00:38:40 - The frustrating truth about looking the part00:39:16 - The biggest money mistakes: ad teams and mentorships00:44:18 - Consolidating two gyms into one, the beginning of the end00:50:01 - Regrets, Asia, and the Undefeated bet00:54:32 - One piece of advice to our younger selves Training hard, but don't look like it? Aaron closes that gap ⬇️https://coach.strakernutritionco.com/bioParagon Training Methods Programming ⬇️https://paragontrainingmethods.comFollow Bryan's Evolved Training Systems Programming ⬇️https://evolvedtrainingsystems.comFind Us on Social Media ⬇️IG | @Eat.Train.ProsperIG | @bryanboorsteinIG | @aaron_strakerYT | EAT TRAIN PROSPER PODCAST
