Calves were my weakest body part

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

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
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.

[ButtersLStotch]

Meanwhile some random dad in his fresh new balances and cargo shorts rocking the most powerful calves you’ve ever seen

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she asked why you dont train calves when youve been training them 3 years 💀💀💀

[matthewmatthew]

Him wearing pants for three years because a girl told him his calves were small is the most relatable he has ever been

[things_and_such]

"the fact that she asked me that, ruined my day" that line just made me laugh

[puakeriwinterburn]

It hits different when someone says why don’t you train calves and you have been working on them hard, then you see a dude who doesn’t work out and he has ur dream calves

[brandon]

The year before Arnold won his first Mr. Olympia he came in second, I think. The judges said he lacked in the calve area. The whole off season he did 1, 000lbs calve raises. He won Mr. Olympia the next 4-5 years straight 70’-75’ beast mode

[avi_sncin]

Us ex-obese guys don’t even have to train calves 💀 iykyk 💪

[trangnha]

I was so self conscious I felt a dog was judging my calves one day 😂

He kept looking at my calves then at my face back to the calves ...

[Bateria_Salvaje]

If you can pinpoint a weakness and make it a strength, soon you will run out of weaknesses

[getfedup]

So I just got way way out of shape, put on an extra 100lbs. Walked around with said excess weight for about 5 years and now my calves are the strongest part of my body😅

[aleksandrsandalov]

Best editor work I've seen in a long time! :)

[HotShotLion]

Bro genetics really are everything. I've been training less than a year and my calves are crazy defined.

[uhuhmingbird]

Bro must have worn the same pants for 3 years and never taken them off “I hadn’t seen my calves in 3 years”

[dacoldesttaevadoit]

thank god my calves are a genetic strong point

[xRocky-]

Video on your calf and shoulder workouts please!

[archamedis]

Impressive body man! Inspires me and makes me question where I’d be if I continued. My breaking point was IBS, couldn’t risk more back injuries due to too much internal pressure.

[eric_martindale]

This makes sense from so many directions. They are a relatively small muscle group, and probably much easier to start with than say, legs or back. So you probably get more of a warm-up affect in terms of the impact to your whole central nervous system.

When we do it in the opposite way, we were out our central nervous system with large muscle groups, then give our Cavs the spare change.

[christopherconde]

Favorite video of mine you’ve ever made

[King-_-.]

I appreciate that he is actually doing them right to all the way down all the way up better results if you flex at the top but it's gonna burn a whole lot more

[imsocentral]

Meanwhile someone’s 70yr dad with a beer belly and jean shorts has the craziest calves ever💀