Fitness Advice From The Bible

My friend Brett and I have been doing Bible study for the last few months using the S.O.A.P. method.

I was reading Matthew 13 yesterday morning, and couldn’t help but notice how it related to why some people stay healthy, and some people yo-yo for years or decades.

In the chapter, Jesus told the parable of the sower. A farmer scatters seed, and it kinda goes everywhere.

Some lands on a hard path and gets eaten by birds.

Some springs up on rock and dies when the sun comes up.

Some gets choked by thorns and never produces.

Only the seed in good soil produces a harvest thirty, sixty, a hundred times what was sown.

That parable is basically a manual for why people keep starting over with fitness and never get to something permanent.

Think about the person who jumps on the latest shiny trend promising the answer they’ve been missing. Fasting. Weighted vests. Carnivore.

They start (on a Monday, of course), go hard for a week, feel great, then life happens and it all collapses.

That was seed on the hard path. No root. No resilience. Sound familiar?

Then there’s the rock. Rapid results. Fast scale drops. 1200 calories, tons of extra cardio. But the program was a sprint, not a plan.

When life gets slightly harder, you get too hungry, and you miss a few days, the results dry up because you never built the habits or the foundational systems to keep them.

And the thorns. Work stress. Parenting chaos. Trying to do ten different things at once because every influencer says that’s the secret.

Even a decent program will get strangled if the rest of your life is starving it for attention.

Good soil looks boring at first. It’s consistent. It follows the basics. It’s smart enough to prioritize the things that actually move the needle.

But that’s the soil where lasting results grow.

Here’s a quick checklist to see where you’re planting:

• Is your training focused on strength and progressive overload, or just burning calories?

• Is your nutrition flexible and sustainable for months, or do you fall off because you feel restricted?

• Are you building a small set of habits that survive when life gets busy, or do you default back to old ways out of convenience?

Your answers will reveal if you’re scattering seed on poor ground.

This is why our coaching exists.

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We give you a workout plan that builds real strength and longevity.

We give you nutrition guidance that fits your life.

We help you build habits that survive a weekend away, a sick kid, or a crazy work week.

You do the work. We keep the soil healthy.

If you’re tired of the start-stop cycle and you want something that actually grows, plant your seed in good soil.

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Jonathan - Digital Barbell ® (I need to start using that trademark, we paid good money for it! 😜)