Bulletproof_baller @Bulletproof_Bal

4-Step Social Media Etiquette Checklist With 1m YouTube subscribers and 2m Instagram followers, I’ve received thousands of insults meant to get me down. But the following 4 steps have me feeling more up. I’m not saying my approach is “right.” But this may be helpful to someone out there, so here it is… 1. I treat other people’s social media pages like REAL LIFE. Just like in real life, if I see a shirt I don’t like, I’m never going to say “that shirt sucks.” I treat people with kindness, and if I feel I absolutely MUST correct someone on something for their own good, I do so PRIVATELY, just like I would in real life. This probably only happens once a year, but it means I send a private message, sent with GOOD MANNERS - not a public comment, and never RUDE. 2. When I receive an insult, I immediately have awareness that social media is a place where people who are upset can lash out. I’ve been apologized to countless times, so I don’t automatically assume an insult means someone is forever a “bad” person. HOWEVER, just like real life, I’m at a place where I don’t have negative people in my life. I don’t need everyone to like me. And with a wife and two kids and people asking for my HELP, I’ve come to realize that I can’t get back my TIME. If I can tell someone’s intent is to argue and drag me down, I block them. I’m on many platforms and if they actually want my help, they can find it. But online and in-person, I channel my time into my craft, my kids, and my wife. And ya, I still SEE the negative comments and I don’t mind it! I don’t want to live in an echo chamber shielded from reality. I just don’t spend any more time on it after seeing it. 3. When I see a competitor take the time to make a post using my name or image to put me down - or doing the same to someone or something I respect - I immediately think of “presidents.” What I mean by this is that every election, our TOP ELECTED LEADERS take the time to make videos using the names and images of their opponents in order to put them down, even spending millions to advertise those videos! Our “top leaders” are the most classic social media haters! So even if someone is using my name and image to put me down, I don’t judge them as a bad person. Maybe they really are evil. But probably not. And what we know to be 100% true is that the presidents set the same example. So I will never put a competitor’s name or image in my video - unless it’s a THANK YOU for something I learned from them. And if I was running for office, my entire campaign would be built on: “I am NOT spending my time worrying about what the other candidates are doing, and I will never mention another candidate, no matter how bad they try to put me down. This means I HAVE MORE TIME AND FOCUS on how to help YOU. I can therefore be better at this job.” And that’s exactly how I treat my job as a trainer. 4. I save every win. THAT is what I focus on. So my life winds up so much more focused on the positive aspect of social media than the negative. I keep getting better at helping people. I keep feeling happier and more grateful. And I hope these 4 steps help someone else to those same results. Yours in Solutions, Ben

Get Out of Pain and Stay Out of Pain…For LIFE A lack of ability causes pain in both exercise and life in general. In this thread, I show you how ATG can help you improve and regain that ability...

[Heads-up: this is the longest article I’ve posted on X] An ATG story has unfolded which I find more remarkable than my own. I won’t spend too much time dragging you through my low points, but as someone known in high school for my terrible knees, pathetic jumping and stiffness, I shouldn’t now have freakish knee resilience and the ability to easily dunk and do the splits. But what if someone who hasn’t been able to dunk since age 23… dunked again… AT AGE 46? Has anyone ever regained the ability to dunk at twice the age they last could? And has anyone then easily done the splits afterward? This article isn’t specifically about the ability to dunk or do the splits. It’s about the now-observable truth that the magic of one human life can be far greater than mainstream belief suggests. And today I get the special treat of sharing Geoff’s story! [@CoachGeoffReed] … I recently dunked a basketball for the first time in over 23 years. I’m 46 today, turning 47 in May. The last time I could dunk a basketball was the summer of 2000, shortly before I tore my ACL, MCL and meniscus playing pickup soccer at age 23. I wish I had video footage of a decent dunk from my early 20s, but that was LONG before smartphones were invented :-). My goal for this article is not to boast, but rather to help you challenge some commonly held assumptions, to provide you with some FACTS from my experience that may resonate with you, and most of all to hopefully INSPIRE you like Ben Patrick inspired me three years ago. If I can do this, maybe you can too. Let’s rewind, and I’ll provide some further context. Like most people, I LOVED playing sports as a kid. Two-hand touch football every day at recess with my friends in elementary school. Hoops in the driveway with my neighborhood friends. My dad hitting me flys in the early evenings when he got home from work. Soccer, baseball, volleyball, golf, the list goes on… I played them all growing up. Please understand—I am a pretty average athlete. I was a decent high school soccer, basketball and baseball player at a small school in the early ‘90s. In high school, my coaches had us lift weights. I hated it. Don’t get me wrong, my coaches were incredible—they were 100% well-intentioned trying to help my teammates and me get stronger. But conventional training didn’t feel right. In fact, it was a little scary. I avoided it as much as possible. I didn’t play sports in college. Wasn’t athletic enough or good enough. I couldn't dunk in high school. In college I grew a couple more inches to my current height of 6’1’’. I played pickup sports, college intramurals, and got my first dunk ever at age 21. I also lifted weights seriously for the first time in my early 20s, focusing on bench press and biceps. After I tore my ACL at 23, I didn’t play pickup sports as regularly. Even after a year of physical therapy and rehab, my knee wasn’t the same. I couldn’t run or jump like before, so sports weren’t as much fun. I just accepted this as a natural and normal part of not being young anymore. I went to the gym and worked out intermittently throughout the rest of my 20s, focusing on pushups, bench press and curls. Along the way, I developed chronic pain in my upper back. And at 29, I ruptured my Achilles tendon playing pickup basketball. I was in a wheelchair for a month. I couldn't drive, so my beautiful saint of a wife had to chauffeur me around and take care of me all summer. Throughout my 30s, I basically stopped playing sports and working out entirely. I was just so injury prone that I knew if I tried to play sports, I would get hurt, potentially leading to another surgery and my poor wife having to take care of me again. My wife and I started a beautiful family and I focused on work and my kids. I also gained 35 pounds and battled depression and anxiety. At 40, my doctor told me that I was overweight, and I had to do SOMETHING in terms of exercise. [continued below]

Hope this helps anyone dealing with knee pain 🫡 If you’re looking to learn more about getting a knee pain I’m holding a 5 day workshop which will give you all the tools needed to smash your recovery If you want access click this link: skool.com/knee-pain-work…

3. Knee flossing This was a shame change for me when it came to increasing my range of motion in the knee and reducing my knee pain I find 50 reps in the bottom quarter of a squat to be very benificial but can be used in almost any knee exercise

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3 ways you can instantly reduce knee pain. I had chronic knee pain for 5 years, the first time I done these, I felt relief for the first time and it gave me hope. I hope someone who reads this has the same experience 🫡

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All 10 exercises I can’t live without to maintain Bulletproof knees ⬇️ youtu.be/aaXKy1YUK_o?si… Thanks for getting this far, don’t give up hope for your knees 🫡

Getting STRONG in these three exercises over time will help heal your knees and get you back to playing the sport you live quicker - ATG is the way I fixed my knees, hope you use it to do the same!

For 5 years I had chronic knee pain, nothing I tried worked… Now thanks to @kneesovertoesg I’m back playing the sport I love ⚽️ These are the three exercises I now can’t live without

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