Willpower
Is the Enemy
Why discipline is the worst-performing strategy in your organization, and what to run instead. The mechanism underneath everything else I teach.
Strength coach, four‑time author, host of Unlocking Your Inner Strength, and founder of Newell Strength.
2007. Newell Strength ran out of my trunk, then my parents' basement. Nineteen years later it's two locations in New Jersey and a team of coaches.
2012 I ruptured my patellar tendon. The surgeon told me it was the worst one he had on record. Five months later I was back under the bar.
That October I handed in my letter of resignation from teaching. That same weekend, Hurricane Sandy came through and took the roof off my gym.
The insurance adjuster looked at me and said, go big or go home, man.
I took a unit twice the size.
Here's what nineteen years of coaching taught me: it was never about the information.
Everybody in your room already KNOWS what to do. They've known for twenty years. That's not the problem.
The problem is willpower. Willpower is a battery, and your people run theirs flat by two in the afternoon. Then they turn around and blame themselves for it.
I don't come in and tell anybody to try harder. I show them why trying harder has been the whole problem.
Speech topics
Three talks. Each one built to your room.
Willpower
The Roof
Came Off
No job, no roof, no plan. A talk about the decision I made that week, and what you actually do when everything breaks at once.
Fast
Beast Feast
The unconventional health system for people over 40 who don't have time to make fitness a second job. Contrarian, and usable Monday morning.
Why book Kyle
Nineteen years coaching. 339 episodes.
To cut the theory
Nineteen years coaching
Master's in Exercise Science. NSCA-certified. Nineteen years actually coaching people, not talking about it.
To hold the room
339 episodes since 2016
Weekly podcast since 2016, top 2% of all shows globally. He knows how to hold a room because he's held one every week for nine years.
To change Monday
Usable the next morning
No theory, no vision-boarding. One mechanism they can run the next morning without any extra discipline.
On the show
Who Kyle has had across the table.
Bring Kyle to your event
Booking him is easier than a forty eight hour fast. He would know.
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