This Workout Made Me Cry

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

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I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

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[lucflynn]

Sounds horrible. I'ma try it today, thanks.

[alexanderdavidson]

Let’s spare a minute for John. What an absolute gentleman. Very sad we lost him too soon

[matthewstrauts]

The Mountsin Dog. Rest in peace John and thank you for all that you shared.

[masonorfe]

John Meadows was a wealth of knowledge. he was also a great man, and i think just about everyone who is into fitness can say they learned something from him at one time. RIP legend

[jsg]

He also stated that it's specifically for enhanced athletes NOT naturals because naturals wont grow their delts from these and in the video he suggested a different exercise

[openbooknutrition]

Mountain Dog baby, that dude knows his shit. His youtube channel is a goldmine of great information that will last forever

[Sthe_Fitness]

Thanks for the advice man, I’ll try it

[Koulie_Kyle]

Awesome and thanks for the hack! Always struggled with shoulders

[raymondnavarro]

He was great. Loved his approach to shoulder training. Never believed in presses just isolation movements for shoulders.

[Bwnasty]

Rip John, also looking into his “meadow rows” for back late, simply amazing! A pioneer ahead of his time and still is

[gbaby]

Love this kind of content. As I go try it

[phillhasnochill]

Hamstrings before doing quad work, got it from John, till this day when I explain why I do it I always make sure to explain that it came from mountaindog 💪🏾💯

[humphrybolgart]

Great.
Guy, great guy, he died what he enjoyed doing. Nice to see you're following in his footsteps.

[Pointing_Truth]

exactly what I needed, will be trying this

[kayman]

Added this into my shoulder routine about 6months ago, it will always be in my finisher

[Mike_In_Motion_]

It is so interesting to me how different styles of training can be so beneficial to some people and a complete waste of time for others. For me, the key is to try everything especially if your current training isn't doing much for you. Keep what works for you and make your own style. Everyone's body is different so no one style of training fits all.

[josueguillen]

rip meadows he was the reason my shoulders grew and too this day I use most of his workouts. Kind man, everyone loved him. Rest in strength.

[Alex-ck]

Man John had great knowledge people say this is useless but worked for me so well.

[rrisky]

John Meadows was awesome, I still love watching his videos.👍😃💪🇺🇸

[devvildogg]

Discovered this a few years ago, the only thing that makes me feel sore in the mid delt, not that soreness is a good marker for effective training session but yes, these sets absolutely 🔥