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THE MARIOLIS METHOD: MOVE. THINK. EVOLVE. Not just physical health—but mental clarity, emotional resilience, and life transformation. MOVE. Results vary.

The Mariolis Method: Move - Think - Evolve | Comprehensive Performance Coaching | 30+ Years of Elite Expertise | Sustainable Health & Peak Performance Through Science-Based Exercise, Nutrition & Mental Mastery. In my 30+ years of working with clients across all levels, I've discovered one undeniable truth: movement is the foundation of everything. I don't deal in quick fixes or empty promises. Wha

t I offer is something deeper—a comprehensive approach that addresses the whole person. Through targeted exercise and nutrition strategies, I help clients uncover the patterns, decisions, and emotional barriers that have shaped their current reality. My approach wasn't built in classrooms or boardrooms. It was forged in gyms, on fields, and through countless one-on-one sessions with people just like you. Every technique in my toolbox has been pressure-tested through years of practical application—what remains is what actually works. The Mariolis Method works because it meets you exactly where you are. Whether you're an athlete seeking that competitive edge, someone recovering from injury, or simply searching for a better version of yourself, I create pathways tailored to your specific needs and circumstances. My expertise spans strength conditioning, nutritional science, athletic development, and high-performance psychology. But my real skill lies in how these disciplines intersect—creating an integrated approach that transforms not just bodies, but lives. This isn't about chasing temporary results or superficial changes. This is about sustainable evolution—building a foundation strong enough to support whatever life you choose to build upon it. Three simple words that capture the journey we'll take together.

📌 The Mariolis Method provides personalized coaching based on experience and scientific principles. Always consult a healthcare professional before starting any new fitness or nutrition plan.

01/05/2026

Just MOVE

For those who still don't understand the importance of exercise and movement…

Vince has a message for you and I couldn't agree more.

MOVE. Or don't.

Just know that a pretty ordinary existence is waiting for you at the end of that choice.

The doctors, the hospitals, the medications — and the friends and family who will quietly put their own lives on hold to look after yours.

That's on you. Entirely, completely, one hundred percent on you.

But it's your choice — and hey, it's your life.

Others will just have to put up with your choices.

I'm sure they'll be looking forward to it 😔😢😞😓

The Mariolis Method: MOVE.THINK.EVOLVE
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30/04/2026

40 Years in the Gym. Still Not Ready for This

Never a good idea to get into the gym when the local High School lets them loose.

I’m finishing my workout, and a young guy in school uniform stands out.

He’s Kneeling down wrapping resistance bands around the back support of the Leg Press machine – 1, 2 , 3, 4 bands. A kind of herringbone pattern. I can understand that (not really) but I guess it will reduce slippage – even though the machine has handles for that purpose.

Okay!

Then he begins tugging and pulling ‘knee sleeves’ over his school trousers, and then, he pulls out knee wraps and wraps and wraps and wraps over the sleeves making his knees look the size of watermelons.

He then walks to the weight stack - somewhat like a cross between Frankenstein and a scarecrow - and loads a 20kg plate on each side. The next five minutes are spent trying to sit in the Leg Press and get those feet on the foot plate.

Finally, he's in, legs are locked out, but he has to wiggle up the seat then using the handles drags himself down. He’s ready to LEG PRESS!

He releases the safety .... AND ……. NOTHING HAPPENS

His knees are so locked that the weight doesn't move. He’s there for a few moments - confused as to what to do - I wanted to, but I was actually too embarrassed to go over and assist.

He locks the machine and then realises he can’t get out. Reaches for his phone and makes a call - to his mates - training at the other side of the gym.

They come over and pull him out. He’s not happy. Aggressively drags the knee wrappings off and throws them in his kit bag and says to his mates “the leg press is BS. What a pathetic machine.” Actually he said a lot worse – I had to clean it up. - And he walked off.

I thought that was the end of it.

Some 5 minutes later, there he is.

The Basil Fawlty of the weight room.

On the Leg Extension. Fully loaded with the whole stack. He’s rocking back and forward violently - grunting and groaning – almost standing. Meanwhile the lever arm of the Leg Extension isn’t moving an inch.

I stood and watched for a good minute. I just had to. Astounded! Amazed! But not in a good way.

Three PT’s on duty, a manager and two staff. Nobody says anything. But what was worse, and very sad - apart from me, not one other person even noticed it.

What the heck is wrong with this generation?????

Lost for words.

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30/04/2026

It's back. 👇

I'm opening 5 spots in a once-off small group coaching program — and it's designed for the woman who's serious about making a real change, but isn't quite ready for (or doesn't need) the full 1-on-1 experience.

Here's what you get inside the 8 weeks:

✔ 2 custom training plans — home gym or in-gym, you choose
✔ Nutrition guidance + macros education so you actually understand what you're eating
✔ Optional upgrade to a 1-on-1 nutrition consult to personalise your meal plan
✔ A small, tight-knit group so you still get personal attention and real support
✔ Accountability, check-ins, and a coach in your corner every step of the way

This is for you if you're:
→ Feeling stuck or lost with your training
→ Hit a plateau and can't figure out why
→ Ready to start but need a clear plan and someone to guide you
→ Craving support but not sure 1-on-1 coaching is the right step yet

Investment: $65/week (compare to $129/week for 1-on-1)
Duration: 8 weeks
Spots: 5 women only — once this fills, it's gone.

Drop a "ME" below or send me a DM to grab your spot before someone else does.

29/04/2026

Certificates Don't Sweat

Today's fitness industry loves its 'theories.'

But theories don't lift weights. And they don't fit in with real life.

And today's 'qualifications'? They aren't worth the time it takes to print them.

I've been 40 years in the trenches. And here's what it all comes down to:

EXPERIENCE.

Because experience is where theory comes from. Not the other way around.

So ask yourself — what do you value more?

A coach with a dozen certificates.

Or a coach who has spent years getting it wrong, in order to get it very right?

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28/04/2026

WISDOM AIN'T CHEAP

Funny thing about getting older — you realise we do education completely back to front.

Sure, we learn the standard stuff. Reiding, ryeting and rythmatic. And look, we need some of that. But nobody warned me about the BS, the headaches, the challenges and the sewage pits waiting patiently just around the corner.

And when I eventually fell into them - there were many - some brainiac would hit me with: "Life wasn't meant to be easy."

What a cheap way to justify a hard landing AND there have been some very HARD landings.

But here's the best thing I ever did — going back at an older age and doing the reading, writing and arithmetic properly. And something remarkable happened. This time around, everything made sense. Every lesson, every theory, every concept had something to tie back to —

Real life. Real experience. Real mistakes.

While the younger students sat in total confusion, faces blank, clearly having nothing to hang any of it on — I was sitting there thinking "Oh. So THAT'S what you call that."

All that strife. All those failures. All those sewage pits. Suddenly they had names.

My philosophy lecturer set us an assignment: "Explain what wisdom is and where it comes from."
Boy, did I nail that one!

Because wisdom doesn't live in books. It doesn't live in discussions, opinions, or the deep unshakeable certainty of people who've never actually been tested. It certainly doesn't live on social media.

It lives in the bunkers. In the places life puts you when it isn't being easy. In the mess you make trying to survive it, make sense of it, and find a way to hurt a little less next time.

But here's what wisdom also does — it teaches you to embrace the suck. And learn from it.

Every mistake. Every poor decision. Every moment I ignored what I already knew.
What the heck was I thinking? What was I feeling? What was I trying to prove — and to whom? What was I running from? Where was I completely out of alignment with myself?

That's not a comfortable process. But it's a necessary one. And an expensive one.
Because the mistakes themselves teach you nothing.

It's the analysis that does. The willingness to sit in your own mess long enough to actually understand it — not justify it, not dress it up, not run from it. Understand it.

The ancient Greeks called it pathei mathos. I know this because I was forced to study Ancient Greek at Greek high school. Didn't love it then. Came in handy later — seeing as everything's Greek.

'Pathei mathos'. Learning through what happens to you. Not what you plan. Not what you study. What life walks up and does to you.

Life doesn't hand you lessons. It hands you experiences. The lessons only arrive if you're willing to go looking for them — honestly, uncomfortably, without the excuses.

In over four decades of coaching, I've watched this play out again and again. In myself. In every person I've ever worked with. Everyone wants progress. Very few are willing to examine the behaviours that are quietly preventing it.

You don't get wisdom from avoiding mistakes.
You get it from confronting them. Sitting with them. Extracting every last thing they have to offer.

Wisdom is expensive. Way more expensive than any degree I've ever earned.

You want some? Come get some.

The Mariolis Method: MOVE. THINK. EVOLVE.
Not Another App. Real Coaching. REAL CHANGE.

27/04/2026

THE AGEING ATHLETE —

These days i do things a little different.

Once upon a time, I would load the bar, take a few seconds to focus, and off I would go.

These days – the process is different.
I approach the bar, and take quite a few seconds (minutes) longer.

Not hesitation. More like... a conversation. Between me and something that used to just do what it was told.

Knees – ‘check’. Lower back – ‘check’. Shoulder – ‘check.’
Ok, let’s try the first rep! Up it comes, slowly. Carefully monitor all systems. Okay, back down - pause. Re-check all systems. No malfunction. Repeat. Pause. All good. Now let the next 5 or 6 rip like there’s no tomorrow. Victory! Now, more weight. And the process is repeated.

Halfway through the workout, it’s all systems a go. Just like it used to be.

I'm 69. I've been training since I was a teenager. Boxing, AFL, Bodybuilding, powerlifting, Oly lifting, strongman — I've done them all. I've coached elite athletes for over 40 years. I know what hard work is and I know what it costs. I've always been willing to pay it – sometimes dearly.

But the body has its own invoice now.
These joints need a longer warm-up. The hormones have quietly retired without telling me. Recovery that used to take a day now takes three. The skin tells its own stories, and the muscles - sometimes they have nightmares that wake me up.

The competitive mentality, the SPIRIT? Completely intact. Forty odd years of you don't back down doesn't just switch off.

So, what do you do with that?

You get honest. Brutally and specifically honest. There's a difference between can't and won't — and on any given day you'd better know which one you're actually dealing with.

Some days pushing through is just common sense. Other days more effort goes into keeping the ego under control.

I'm still in the gym. Still coaching athletes half my age, training with some of them, the one’s with ‘heart’. But, always, still competing with myself, improving, trying to deny the body it’s impending aging process.

I’ve always loved to explore the boundaries of human endeavour, and I’m not going to stop now.

If you're an ex-athlete in your 50s or 60s having this same argument with yourself — you don't need someone young telling you to "listen to your body."

You need someone who's having the same argument.

Turns out the most important conversation in the gym isn't between you and the bar. It's between who you were and who you're still refusing to stop being.

The Mariolis Method: MOVE.THINK.EVOLVE
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24/04/2026

LEVERAGE MATTERS

That's me. 120 kilos. Standing on a tyre supervising three clients.

I loved every kilo of it.

Didn't start that way.

I stumbled into my first gym at 70 kilos. Spent decades slowly — very slowly — adding weight. Bodybuilding. Powerlifting. Back to bodybuilding. Then Strongman.

Strongman changed everything.

Suddenly weight was a weapon. Leverage matters. And eating became a legitimate training tool. I love eating. So that part was easy.

But eventually that season ended - sort of. I still do the training, but not so much the eating.

And every kilo that had a reason going on — needed a reason coming off.

No crash dieting. No starvation. Just sensible eating, consistent training, and patience, and of course, purpose driven, intelligent training.

Every kilo had a reason. Even the ones I had to let go.

I still love eating though. Just not as much, although sometimes .........

The Mariolis Method: MOVE.THINK.EVOLVE
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22/04/2026

YOU ARE RESTRICTED BY YOUR OWN AFFECTIONS

I had a young tennis player once.

He had talent you don't manufacture. Gifted. Natural. Should be illegal.

The kind that makes other coaches stop and watch. Competitive to his bones — hated losing, hated missing a session, hated being second at anything.

We worked hard together. He absorbed everything. Moved well, trained hard, showed up. Never missed a session - every single time.

And then, the weekend would come.

The clubs. The sleep-ins. The girls. The ci******es. The other stuff. He loved all of it. Every bit of it. Genuinely, completely loved it.

He wasn't afraid to be great. He just loved everything that was stopping him from getting there.

Last I heard he's behind a desk somewhere.

I've thought about him a lot over the years, and what might have been.

Seems we've built an entire culture around 'fear' - Fear of failure, fear of judgment, feel the fear and do it anyway. Push through resistance. Overcome your limiting beliefs.

But fear wasn't his problem. His affections were.

And affections don't feel like chains. They feel like weekends.

They can be the very thing that quietly, gently, lovingly, slowly, — hold you exactly where you are.

I wonder if he's worked that out yet?

What do you love too much to outgrow?

The Mariolis Method: MOVE.THINK.EVOLVE
Not Another App. Real Coaching. REAL CHANGE!

17/04/2026

I Don’t Listen to what you WANT. I watch WHAT YOU DO!

This is something I’ve learned through experience.
I could listen to what my client’s want, and hand over a program, and a nutrition plan, and both might even be perfect. But it also could be a waste of time.

I had a client once. She worked hard. Did everything right. Lost a significant amount of weight over a long period of time.

And then she just ... disappeared. No argument. No falling out. Just gone.
Eventually we made contact again and I worked out what had happened.

The changes she made started attracting a different life. More attention. More interaction. People who hadn't noticed her before suddenly did. She was having conversations that were unfamiliar, challenging and confronting. She had become a version of herself she didn't recognise in the mirror — and did not know how to embrace. Yet, she succeeded in making the change she wanted.

She didn't fail. She succeeded. But then couldn’t be the person that could live the change she wanted.

It’s not just clients.

A person who has worked hard all their life and dreams of retirement suddenly finds that with retirement; his purpose has just disappeared. This happened to my father. Within a year of retirement - major heart attack, quadruple bypass. He was never the same.

My father spent a lifetime being someone who works. Purpose, structure, identity — all of it tied to that. Retirement didn't give him freedom. It took away the person he knew how to be. The heart attack wasn't coincidence.

Here's what most people don't realise when they come to me for coaching.
They think they're asking for a program. A nutrition plan. A result.

What they're actually asking for is change.

And change doesn't just reshape your body or your habits. Done properly, it reshapes who you are. Your relationships. Your place in the room - The life that starts showing up around you.

Getting what you want is the easy part.

BECOMING THE PERSON WHO CAN KEEP IT — that's the real work.

That’s what I do at The Mariolis Method: MOVE.THINK.EVOLVE
Not Another App. Real Coaching. REAL CHANGE!

16/04/2026

FIX YOUR TUESDAY

Without fail with new clients .. after a few weeks of impressing upon them the importance of changing their eating habits .. especially the 'bad' ones - the muffin with their breakfast coffee, the disgusting white bread, full sugar coke ... !! And explaining to them over and over again, that "if nothing changes ... then nothing will change” - I say that a lot - the almost automated response i get is:

"Ok, ok. I will start on Monday."

My hand goes up.

And in a very civil - not necessarily 'polite' tone, I respond:

"I'm not interested in your Monday ... Show me your Tuesday."

And it’s not only new clients! MOST of us fail terribly at rising up to the level of our goals - even the ones that matter the most. Seems we're far more comfortable down at the level of our stubbornly held, well-practised, toxic and destructive daily bloody habits.

If you're someone who always looks to Mondays to start building your skyscraper on a crumbly dirt floor and can't work out why you never get past the foundations …….

START HERE.

FIX YOUR TUESDAY! Everything else follows!

The Mariolis Method: MOVE.THINK.EVOLVE
Not another APP. Real Coaching. REAL CHANGE!

14/04/2026

"Nothing Is Going To Change. If Nothing Changes."

Stopped in at a quaint little café for coffee and breakfast on the way to watch junior play AFL on the weekend. One wall was decorated with customer graffiti messages and attempts at intelligence.
That one line stood out.

Not because it was clever. But because it is the most ignored truth in human history.

Everyone wants change.

Better health. Better body. Better relationships. Better life.

I've never met a single person in forty years of coaching who said "you know what — I'm perfectly happy going nowhere." Not one!

So why then — with all that wanting — does so little actually change?

Here's my attempt at ‘intelligence.’

People don't resist change because they're lazy.
They resist it because they're approaching it completely backwards:

"Give me the body and I will live a healthy life." "Give me the success and I'll show you how to live successfully." "Give me the relationship and I'll be the best partner."

But that's not how it works.

THAT LIFE YOU WANT? YOU CAN’T HAVE IT!

Not because it isn't possible. But because you're not the person you need to be who can live it.

Here's the part nobody wants to hear.

You can change your gym program. You can change your diet. You can change your routine, your schedule, your habits and your postcode.

But if you don't change who you are - at your core — NOTHING CHANGES!

The program gets abandoned. The diet lasts three weeks. The routine collapses under the first sign of pressure – and you’re back doing what you’ve always done, and once again you have good reasons. You didn’t fail. It was just the ‘universe’ AGAIN!

Because the person running the show, is still the same person who stuffed up the last one.

The "Life-Lie."

That comfortable narrative that protects us from the discomfort of real change.
"I'm working on it." "The time isn't right yet." "Things will be different this year."

Meanwhile — nothing changes.
Because ......................... nothing changes.

The identity has to shift first.

BECOME THE PERSON. THEN LIVE THE LIFE!

Not the other way around.

That's not a motivational quote.
That's just how it works.

By the way, junior won his game and played quite well.

The Mariolis Method: MOVE. THINK. EVOLVE.
Not Another App. Real Coaching. REAL CHANGE

13/04/2026

You don't need to announce your progress when your results are doing the talking.

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