61. 225 Pounds. 9% Body Fat. Thriving with MS for 30 Years.

I am going to state numbers, and then I am going to explain what they cost and why they matter.

I am 61 years old. I weigh approximately 225 pounds at roughly 9% body fat. I am six foot four. I have been living with multiple sclerosis for 30 years.

Those numbers are not aspirational. They are not projections or peaks. They are today. Maintained through two near-death experiences, a divorce, the emotional rebuild that followed, six companies not all of which worked, and three decades of a progressive neurological disease that a doctor once told me would put me in a wheelchair by 60.

I train five days a week on a split routine. I eat to a meal plan with a protein floor of 1.1 grams per pound of body weight per day. I sleep eight or more hours. And I do the boring, repeatable work that nobody wants to hear about because it does not make a dramatic story.

The dramatic story is the coral snake. The dramatic story is the ski accident. The dramatic story is 171 pounds at six foot four after the divorce, sleeping all day, unable to function. Those stories are real and they matter because they establish that I know what the bottom looks like. But the bottom is not the product. The product is what came after, and what came after was discipline, not drama.

Here is what the MS means in practical terms. Fatigue is the constant. I manage it through sleep, through nutrition, and through training. Some days are harder than others. I plan for that. I do not train through days when the fatigue is neurological rather than physical, because the body needs different things in each case.

Here is what the numbers mean for coaching. I am not teaching from theory. I am not reciting principles I read in a textbook. The proof is standing in front of you, and the proof was built under conditions that most fitness influencers would consider disqualifying. MS, age, injury history, emotional devastation. Every one of those is a reason to stop. I used every one of them as a reason to keep going.

The reason I state the numbers plainly is that the men I coach need to see the receipts. He has been marketed to by coaches who look good in a ring light and have no idea what it costs to maintain a body, a business, and a meaningful life over decades. The cost is not glamorous. It is meal prep on Sunday, training at 6 a.m. on days you do not feel like it, eight hours of sleep when the world tells you to grind, and the patience to let the process work over months and years instead of expecting results in weeks.

The numbers are the proof that the process works. The process is what I teach.

What receipts are you willing to build over the next twelve months?

~b