You are listening to the Jay Faruja show, the podcast that helps high achieving men get lean and jacked, build an unbreakable mindset, and become the man you're meant to be.

All right, guys, today I want to talk to you about why type A people cannot gain muscle.

And what you need to change.

Now, I had this thought, I've had this thought a million times in the past, but this came to me the other day.

I was at the gym and I was talking to a buddy of mine, his professional bodybuilder.

Big jacked up dude.

Obviously has great genetics and a bunch of, you know,

PEDs and whatnot going for him.

But this dude is so chill,

as are pretty much every, like every guy who has the top 1% of genetics in terms of muscle building

that's how they are they're so fucking chill they're in that parasympathetic nervous system state

like we're type a guys we're're just naturally wired, wound up, aggressive, high energy, overthinking, over analyzing,

high anxiety.

And so you have your stress hormone skyrocketing all day.

So you end up, you know, your skinny fat basically, right?

And you have small, you have a small bone structure, you have tiny wrist, tiny joints,

you get injured easily, you get sick easily.

You know, that's the story of my life.

I've been dealing with that for 50 years and coaching guys in that boat for 30 years.

So I get it.

I can relate as well as anybody else. And anyway, so back to my

buddy at the gym, like, he's just always so chill. He's relaxing. Every guy I know, you know,

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