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I coach busy, hardworking, men looking to improve their physique and mindset through evidence based practices.

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How to Make Long Term Progress: Building Habits

JPC Newsletter Justin Jennings 12/1/2025 Being Healthy Is a Lifestyle: Building Habits For Long Term Success If you're someone focused on improving your physique chances are you've probably been asked "how much longer are you dieting for?" or "when are you going to start eating normal again?". This is because for most people, losing fat, gaining muscle, or getting healthier is just a phase. This mindset is why so many people fail and end up right back where they started. They never did the...

JPC Newsletter Justin Jennings 11/24/2025 Happy Holidays Or Meal Plan Madness? How to Stay on Track AND Enjoy the Holidays With Thanksgiving right around the corner odds are you've been wondering "How do I stay on track AND enjoy the holiday?". It can seem like there are only two options. Either you write the day off and eat completely off plan, or you bring your Tupperware with your on plan meal with you and eat that for dinner. Truth be told, it's just one day, going off plan isn't a big...

Justin Jennings 11/17/2025 JPC Newsletter Perfection is Impossible. How will You respond to Mistakes? Stronger Bodies, Stronger Minds—Sustainably. One High Calorie Meal Never Made Anyone Fat One Missed Workout Never Made Anyone Fat One Night of Partying Never Killed a Physique The misstep isn't the problem. How you're reacting to it is. What Actually Happens When You Go Off Plan? Truth is, not a lot. One High Calorie Meal Absolutely worst case scenario: You erase your calorie deficit for the...

Justin Jennings November 10th Build a Physique Plan That Fits Your Life. Not a Life That Fits Your Plan Most people don’t fail because they don’t want it bad enough.They fail because the plan they’re trying to follow only works when life is perfect. And life is rarely perfect. Work piles up. Weddings, holidays, kid's games, late nights, stress. You’re not sleeping, you’re eating on the go, you’re just trying to stay above water. And in the back of your mind you’re thinking“I’ll get serious...

Justin Jennings November 3rd Mini Cuts: The tool for the job or a waste of time? ↓ Mini Cuts: The Reset Button for Progress If you’ve been in a gaining phase for a while, you know the feeling.Food starts becoming a chore. Your waistline creeps up. Your cardio is regressing. Training progress is stalling That’s the moment most people think, “Time to diet.” But for a physique athlete, or anyone chasing long-term growth, jumping straight into a long fat-loss phase may actually kill momentum....

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Justin Jennings October 27th Chase a Look, Not a Number: Why your goal weight is keeping you stuck. ↓ Setting a Goal Weight is Keeping You Fat Most people think they’re leaner than they are.That’s the real problem. Someone says they’re going to start a fat loss phase. They’re 210, they set a goal weight of 190 because that sounds lean. When they get there? They’re still soft. No real separation, no definition, just a lighter version of the same look. Sure they're leaner, but they never get to...

Justin Jennings October 20th Are You Getting Leaner or Just Skinnier?: A 4-Part Checklist to Ensure Your Fat Loss Phase Is Losing Fat, Not Just Weight ↓ Not All Weight Loss Is Fat Loss Just like we talked about last week. The scale doesn't always tell the whole truth. Too many people start a fat loss diet, see the scale drop dramatically from the initial water loss, and just assume they're losing fat. This is basically the whole selling point for low carb diets, but that big swing in weight...

Justin Jennings October 13th Are You Growing or Just Getting Heavier?: A 4 Part Checklist to Ensure Your Muscle Gain Phase is Gaining You Muscle ↓ All Weight Gain Is Not Muscle Gain When in a surplus it's easy to just assume all of the weight you are putting on is muscle. Oh, if that were only the case. The truth is, we are generally pretty lucky if half of the weight gained over a muscle gain phase is actual lean tissue. Often times people make the mistake of seeing the scale go up, and...

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Jennings Performance Coaching September 29th Stronger Body, Stronger Mind How To Implement Mindfulness In Your Everyday life ↓ What Is Mindfulness? When people hear mindfulness they often think of Zen Buddhists sitting cross legged meditating or Hippies burning sage to ward off bad energy. In reality, Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment, on purpose, without judgment. Basically, being completely present, in tune with your physical, mental, and environmental state. That still...

Jennings Performance Coaching 5 Tips for curbing hunger on a Fat Loss Diet Recently I finished a 20 week fat loss diet. It was the first time in my life I had ever been exotically lean. I definitely wasn't ready for an enhanced bodybuilding stage, but I was about 5 weeks out when we knocked it on the head to start gaining again. Today I'm going to share 5 tips with you guys (some I used, some I didn't) to help with those hunger pains of trying to pull that stubborn bodyfat off. 1. Increase...