I’ve always been the guy who trained hard. Up before sunrise, heavy lifts, clean meals, no excuses. But after a decade of doing everything “right,” something changed. The progress slowed. Energy dipped halfway through workouts. I’d crash mid-afternoon, even when I slept well and ate clean. I wasn’t out of shape I just felt like I was working twice as hard for half the results. That’s when I realized something no coach or trainer had ever explained: you can’t outwork a metabolism that’s out of sy