PACE Coaching

In my defense it would've been hard to fake a work emergency 🤷🤣♂️

Carbs are not the problem. The version you pick and the amount you eat are.

We ranked five common ones. Not a single one landed in a bad tier.

Potatoes and berries came out on top because they do more than one job. Fiber, micronutrients, volume, satiety. You get energy and you get full.

Rice and bananas are fine. They just do one job well and nothing else. That is not a reason to cut them. It is a reason to know what you are pairing them with.

Oats sit in between and quietly outperform most people's breakfast.

Here is what actually matters. If your carbs are always the low fiber, easy to overeat kind, you are going to feel hungry two hours later and blame your willpower. That is not a discipline issue. That is a food selection issue.

Pick more S and A tier carbs by default. Keep the B tier ones around what you enjoy and around training.

That is the whole system.

You're not too tired. You're avoiding it.

You call it listening to your body. But be honest with yourself. Half the time it isn't your body that's tired, it's your brain looking for an out.

Here's the difference that matters. Physical exhaustion is real. Sore, run down, bad sleep, hard training all week. That earns a rest day, take it.

Mental fatigue is different. Stressed, flat, just don't feel like it. That's the one to push through, because movement is the fix. You almost always leave with more energy than you came in with.

The skill is telling them apart. When you're not sure, give it ten minutes and decide then.

Comment TIRED and I'll send you how to tell which one it actually is.

Ranking what actually matters.

Fiber. Important.
Protein. Important.
Cutting carbs. Not important.
Chasing perfection over consistency. Worse than not important.
Meal timing. Barely matters.

The things that work are boring and repeatable. The things that don't are the ones that feel like control.

Easy to do, easy not to do.

Gracie came to us as a full time teacher who wanted to feel confident in the gym.

Five months later, she's built muscle, dropped body fat, and actually understands why she's doing what she's doing.

We didn't just hand her a plan and disappear. We coached her through the reasoning behind every piece of it so she could run this herself for the rest of her life.

That's the difference between a program and a system.

You spend more time in the gym than you need to.

Every workout we build, for us and for our clients, is designed to get you in and out in 45 minutes.

Once you have a baseline level of fitness, more sets isn't what grows you. Intensity and intention is.

The first couple sets on a muscle group do the work. Keep pushing past that with no reason and you're just adding fatigue, not results.

Structure is what gets you results. Not hours in the building.

If your life is busy, you can't afford 90 m

You don't need to see someone's PR to know if they'll get results.

You need to see what they do on a boring Tuesday. Do they finish the last interval or pull up early. Do they log the last set even when it's ugly. Do they show up on the day they don't feel like it.

That's the signal. Not the highlight reel.

Easy to do, easy not to do.

Underrated benefit of training nobody talks about: you stop trying so hard to look good.

When you've actually built muscle, a plain t-shirt and jeans do more than a $200 outfit ever could. You're not dressing up a problem anymore. You're just wearing clothes.

If you want to look good in your clothes, look good out of them first.