Maris Martinsons

I used to think that buying watches and sunglasses would make me feel different: cooler, more put together, like someone with high status.

I’d get excited about each new purchase, only to let them collect dust in a drawer within a week.

These days, I wear the same watch 90% of the time and barely even touch the sunglasses.

This is what the hedonic treadmill looks like, the more you have, the more you want, and nothing stays exciting for long.

Think about that car you dreamed of owning. After a week, it just becomes... a car.

We've been sold on the idea that happiness comes from accumulating more: more things, more activities, more hustle.

But cramming more into your life only creates noise and a feeling that whatever you have still isn’t enough.

I really realized this while paddleboarding.

Standing on the water with no phone, no music, no distractions, just balancing and being present.

It’s a form of meditation, you can’t think about nonsense when your focus is on not falling in.

That’s when it clicked for me.

Fulfillment isn’t about adding more, it’s about subtracting the excess.

Once you eliminate the noise and live with purpose, you understand that only a few things truly matter.

Your mission: building your body, creating wealth, helping others.

Your relationships: the few people who genuinely matter, and the things that bring real joy.

And it turns out the best things in life are free: a sunny day, silence, being silly with friends, your child’s laughter, walking through a forest, training, and spending time at the beach.
None of it costs a thing, and none of it loses its charm.

So, in the end, the answer is not more, it’s less.

What would you choose to get rid of first?

1 week ago | [YT] | 5

Maris Martinsons

Sometimes I wonder what would've happened if I'd known this 14 years ago.

I'd spent years training hard, eating clean, and still going nowhere.

At every plateau I hit, I added more: more sessions, more restriction, more rules.

I wish someone had told me back then:
More effort isn't the answer when the system and approach are wrong.

And that consistency beats intensity every single time.

Your body doesn't respond to how “hard” you work.

It responds to whether you're doing the right things, repeated for long enough to matter.

But I think, if someone had told me, I probably wouldn't have listened.
I had to learn it the hard way.

Which is why I can help other men skip trial and error.

I speak to men every week who are running the same broken software I was:
That training more will fix it.
That skipping meals is a discipline.
That if the plan doesn't hurt, it isn't working.
That there's a magic split, a magic macro, a magic supplement.

None of that is true.

Inside the Metabolic Breakthrough Program, I help busy men unlearn that noise and replace it with something built for how their life actually works.

A system where 2–4 well-designed sessions a week beats 6 chaotic ones.

Where your food fits your calendar: travel, dinners, meetings, not the other way around.

Where progress is measurable, boring, and permanent.

It's a different approach.

But after 12 years of coaching hundreds of men, I know it works.

Because when the system is right, the body follows.

Follow for more.

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Maris Martinsons

I used to hate Sundays.

Most people see them as a day to relax.
For me, they felt like wasted time.

I've always had this urge to be productive: working on myself, my business, learning something.

And Sundays had none of that.
I'd spend the whole day feeling lost, just waiting for Monday to get back to it.

But recently, something shifted.

I stopped trying to make Sundays productive and gave them a completely different purpose.

Sundays became the day I switch off from everything: social media, music, people, distractions and spend time with myself.

Properly, with no noise, no stimulation.
Just me and whatever my mind wants to do.

And I'll be honest.
At first, it was tough.

Because if your self talk is negative, and for most people it is, sitting in silence feels like being trapped in a room with the most toxic person you know.

That's why most men avoid it.
That's why the phone comes out the second there's a quiet moment.
That's why there's always music on, always a podcast playing, always something filling the gap.

It's not because they love content.
It's because they can't stand the voice in their own head.

Here's what happens when you stop running from it.

You start to actually hear yourself.

Not the surface level thoughts about what you need to do today.

The deeper ones.

The ones asking why you ended up where you are?
Why are you not where you want to be?
What you're actually avoiding?
What needs to change?

The mind that holds the problem holds the solution.

But you'll never hear it if you never shut everything else up long enough to listen.

Once I learned to sit with myself: no distractions, no escape.

Sundays went from the worst day of my week to the most valuable.

I stopped needing someone else to give me answers.
I became my own advisor.

If you can't spend 30 minutes alone in silence without reaching for your phone, that's not a habit.
That's a warning sign.

Learn to be with yourself.
You'll spend 24 hours a day with that person for the rest of your life.

Make sure it's someone worth being around.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 5

Maris Martinsons

The fitness industry has a lot to answer for.

It convinced me I needed to track everything in my life!

Live on bland chicken and rice.
Plan my entire life around the gym.

And don't get me started on the money I wasted on supplements that did nothing.

I see the same mistakes every single day.

Men in their 30s and 40s, already busy with work and family, thinking they need to buy expensive "health foods", follow complicated meal plans, and spend hours on a treadmill.

It would be so much more useful if they just learned to:

✅ Control hunger and cravings✅ Train in a time effecient way they actually enjoy✅ Build a simple daily routine that survives a busy week

I know that sounds too simple

But after helping hundreds of men transform their bodies, I can tell you one thing for certain.

Simple works.

If you stick with it!

That's exactly what we do inside the Metabolic Breakthrough program.
I make geting shape simple again.

Because simpl qorks

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

Maris Martinsons

I won my first bodybuilding show.
And it nearly broke me.

Back in 2014, I was trying to get lean for summer when a mate convinced me to enter a local competition.
I said no. He kept pushing. Eventually, I caved.

Two weeks out. No coach. No real knowledge.
And almost zero information is publicly available, like it is today.

So I did what I thought made sense.

Cut out all carbs. Started running every day on top of my gym sessions. Ate nothing but 2kg of chicken and 2kg of vegetables. Every single day.

All while working a physically demanding factory job.

Within days, I was destroyed.

I'm not talking about feeling a bit tired.
I mean I physically could not run.

My legs had zero strength.
It felt like someone had strapped weights to my ankles.

I couldn't lift my feet off the ground.

The week before the show, my mate had to drive me to the gym because I couldn't walk there.

My body was finished. A tired body creates a tired mind.
And by the end, I was mentally gone.
Burned out, miserable, running on nothing.

I won the show.

But at what cost?

I destroyed my body and my mental health for a trophy.
And looking back, every bit of it was unnecessary.

I learned the hard way what happens when you go all in, but in completely the wrong way.

And I see this exact pattern with so many men who try to get in shape on their own.

They slash their food. Hammer the cardio. White-knuckle their way through it.

And yes, short-term it works. But just because something works doesn't mean it's the right way to do it.

There's a better way to get lean.

One that doesn't leave you feeling like a zombie, eating miserable food, and hating every second of the process.

Want to know what that looks like for you?
DM me "NEW”, and I'll show you.

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Maris Martinsons

Want to know the REAL reason most diets fail?

It’s not what you’d expect…

It’s because they actually work TOO well at the start.

Looks like this…

You start a new diet. You’re pumped.

First week you lose 2-3kg, it’s mostly water weight, but you’re feeling great.
Second week, another 1-2 kg gone… 

Amazing! Everyone’s happy.

But then…

Things start to feel harder.
Progress slows down.
Cravings kick in.

And because you got such quick results at first…

You think YOU’RE doing something wrong.

So you try to eat even less.
Push even harder.
Be even more “on it”.

(Ask me how I know 😅)

Right around here…? 
This is where most people quit.

Because they don’t understand, this is NORMAL. 

Expecting to maintain the pace of the first couple of weeks, totally unrealistic.

Now, I know you know that, in your MIND. 

But if you struggle with things slowing down in that third week and you tend to fuck it off…

There’s part of you resisting that somewhere. 

Don’t you think?

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

Maris Martinsons

I was fired from my second job for being too slow and unproductive.

And honestly? They were right.

I was a terrible employee.

At my first job making pizzas, I did the bare minimum, just enough not to get fired.
At the factory, I couldn’t even manage that.

But it wasn’t laziness. It was something deeper.

Since I was a kid, I hated being told what to do.

The idea of someone deciding when I start, when I finish, when I can have a day off, who I work with, it ate my soul away.

I felt depressed and trapped.

Like I was burning through my life to make someone else rich while getting just enough back to survive.

I kept thinking, there has to be a better way.

Then a mate convinced me to take a personal training course. He said I was already good at training and knew my stuff.

So I thought: why not?
And something clicked.

For the first time, I was doing something I genuinely cared about. Something I’d do for free. Helping people with something I’m passionate about, but on my terms!

No one telling me what to do. No clock to punch. No soul-destroying routine.

Suddenly, the “lazy, unmotivated” guy became the hardest worker in the room.

Not because I changed who I was. Because I finally found something worth working hard for.

If you judge me by the standard of working for someone else, don’t hire me. Seriously.
I’m the worst employee you’ll ever meet.

But give me purpose, freedom and control? I’ll work my as off.

And if you feel the same way right now: stuck, flat, going through the motions, maybe you’re not lazy.

Maybe you’re just uninspired and out of control.

That applies to your career. Your fitness. Every area of your life.

Find meaning. Take back control.
Watch everything change.

Can you relate?

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