One-on-one coaching for Christian men
Conquer your vices in the gym and the kitchen, through Christ.
Training and nutrition coaching for men who mean to bring their appetites and their habits under rule.
Why it works
You already know what to do.
Calorie targets and training splits are free and everywhere, and you have likely followed more than one. Saint Paul names the real difficulty in Romans 7, where the good he wants is the thing he does not do. That is a divided will, and a divided will is steadied by a rule kept under another man's eye far sooner than by more reading.
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Before
"My faith and my body are two separate things."
AfterThe vice in my kitchen is the vice in my soul.
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Before
"I just need a better plan."
AfterI need someone to answer to.
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Before
"I'll figure it out on my own."
AfterI've tried alone enough times.
What we work on
The vices, by name.
The Church has had exact names for these failures since the desert monks of the fourth century, and the names still fit. I coach the body and the vice beneath it as one work.
Gluttony
Using food to quiet what you would rather not feel.
Sloth
Knowing what the day requires and declining it.
Vainglory
Training for the eyes of other men, and losing interest once they look away.
Pride
Refusing help on the grounds that you ought to manage alone.
Despair
Concluding from one bad week that the whole effort is finished.
Smallness of soul
Aiming low because you have already judged yourself incapable of more.
Coaching
A rule fitted to your life.
Your plan is written around the life you already have: your work, your family, your business, your parish and the fasts you keep. We speak every week, and the length of our work together is set by your goal, which we settle on the first call.
Training
A program written for your experience and your equipment, delivered in an app on your phone.
Nutrition
Targets and an eating plan suited to your schedule, your budget and your fasts.
Weekly call
Up to an hour each week, one-on-one, to review what happened and correct the plan.
Direct line
Write to me during the week when a question cannot wait for the call.
Getting started
How it begins.
Apply
A short application about you and your goal. It takes about two minutes.
Call
You choose a time for a video call, and I ask about your goal and what you have already tried.
Plan
If coaching suits you, I lay out the plan and we begin.
Your coach
Ethan Fetters
Fetters is my family name, and a fetter is a shackle for the ankle. The company is named for the opposite condition.
The shackles I meet in coaching are habits, and most were acquired without any decision being made. Aristotle held that a man becomes temperate by performing temperate acts, a great many of them, over a long time. My work is to set those acts before you each day and to stay with you for the months it takes them to become your own.
I take every client myself. I write your training and your meals, and we speak one-on-one each week.
Questions
Before you apply.
Who is this for?
Christian men who want to lose fat, build muscle or hold a routine for longer than a month, and who regard the body as part of their life in Christ.
How long is coaching?
It depends on the goal. Some men need three months and others a year, and we decide it together on the call.
I fast. Will this work with fasting?
Yes. Tell me how you keep the fast and I will plan your training and meals around it. Questions about the rules of the fast belong to your priest.
I'm a beginner, or I train at home. Is that a problem?
No. Your program is written for your experience and the equipment you have, at home or in a gym.
What does it cost?
We discuss the investment on the call, once I understand your situation and know that I can help. The application asks whether you are able to invest now, so that the call is worth your time and mine.
What happens after I apply?
You choose a time for a video call. I ask about your goal and what you have tried, and if coaching suits you I lay out the plan.
Put yourself under a rule.
The application takes about two minutes, and your answers come only to me.