Andrew Frisch

Functional health coach obsessed w/metabolism, hormones, mind, strength & longevity.
Survived chaos. Built discipline.
Building humans that are harder to break.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

If you want to live a full life in 2026, the deck is stacked against you...

90% of the grocery store isn't food, it's "food-like"

Our entertainment doesn't feed into us, it just incapacitates us temporarily

Our labs aren't "normal" your doctor just doesn't have enough time or energy to go in depth

We connect more with pixels than with pupils

One genuinely has to make the extra effort just to live a good life now. Most of us don't have the extra energy or time required.

But, with each lesson learned, each new habit flipped, we can gain back our autonomy. And soon, we find the intrinsic drive to audit our time and develop more energy.

Build yourself and you build a better life, one day and one decision at a time.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

You'll soon realize that those same demons served a purpose - they were the grindstone that you sharpened yourself against

Let go of the guilt
Do good in the world
And continue to work on yourself daily

Life has a way of rewarding those of us who do ❤️

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

For anyone struggling (or who has guilt from having struggled in the past)

Your demons can take you through dark times

But if you can keep going by having an unshakable faith that you're a work of art that's meant to shine...

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In the quest for a better life, we can either:

- reduce our life stress
- become more resilient
- do both
- do neither

But no one aspires to be stressed out and fragile.

Take your life back one decision at a time.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

Are you working out hard and eating better, but results have stalled out?

- Can you improve your sleep?
- Can you reduce life stress?
- Are weekend habits derailing you?
- Identify and address inflammation in the body

Do these and results will resume.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

Do any of these sound familiar?

- It's been a long day, you deserve a cheat
- You've probably burned those calories off, you deserve a cheat
- You've been on point all week, you deserve a cheat

Planned diet breaks are a necessity
But giving in to impulses is not

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

I'm a big fan of the 5 P's...

Proper
Preparation
Provides
Prosperous
Pathways

#selfimprovementdaily

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

An unfortunate truth...
Some people thrive off negativity
They just want to commiserate

- Drama magnets
- Emotional vampires
- Victim mindsets
- Responsibility dodgers

Offer help if they're ready for it Otherwise, guard your time and attention.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

Your coping mechanisms can either destroy you or recharge you.

They cannot do both.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

You have urges & impulses:

- to be distracted
- to eat more than you want
- to skip workouts

You cannot successfully fight these every single day of your life.

Instead, set up intelligent guidelines to work with them:
Refeeds, downtime, rest days.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

Striving for a day when you "arrive" is destroying your life.

When we focus on a destination, we can come to hate the journey.

But the journey is all there is.

View life as a series of mile markers, rather than a destination.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

Do you want to continuously improve your life?

View life as an infinite game.
You pick the game, you set the rules.
You can pick a new game any time.
You can reset the rules any time.

But embrace that you'll never stop playing until you're ready to retire.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

Embrace that the default human experience, especially now, is not one of joy.

If you're working on yourself, you're already in a very small category of more optimistic people.

Don't let the frustration of the others color your experience.

Instead, lift them up.

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Are you working on self-improvement?

Understand that not everyone will have the same focus.

This doesn't make you better, this doesn't make them worse.

Much like workouts and diets, we shouldn't ALL be doing the same thing.

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One of the worst things you can do is to discount someone's success.

Doing so prevents you from realizing how difficult achieving that success really was.

Which then makes it easier to stop short of your own success because "it shouldn't be this hard"

BS. Success ain't easy.

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Stop following bullshit arbitrary rules that someone else made up and imposed upon you.

Stop playing small.
We don't need more cashiers or burger flippers.

There is no dress rehearsal.
This is your life.
There's a world that needs your contribution.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

How to stop starting over:

In any big goal, we inevitably reach a moment of difficulty.

The problem is we don't see it as just a moment, we catastrophize the difficulty, scary and unsolved.

The mere act of persevering puts us above our past failed attempts.

KEEP GOING

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

Common mistakes I see in the gym:

1. Lifting too fast
- Slow Down, FEEL the reps.

2. Focusing only on lifting & lowering
- Don't Skip The Flex & Stretch positions.

3. Having no organization
- At least START the workout with a plan. It's okay to adjust once you've started.

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If you're going through dark times, don't sit still - keep pushing forward.

Think about how sweet your success story will be on the other side of this struggle.

Everyone loves a comeback story.
Make it a good one.

[Andrew Frisch @Nutrient_Nerd]

Look at your phone like your windows...

They're great for letting good stuff in, but if you never shut the blinds from time to time, you'll die from exposure.