You’re new to MRP. Your life sucks. Your wife doesn’t. We get it. Your biggest problem is frame. Frame comes in two parts… physical frame and mental frame. You lack both.

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Building physical frame is easy. You hit the gym, you lift heavy, you eat right, and you sleep well. Next time you hit the gym, you lift heavier, you eat right and you sleep well. Rinse and repeat.

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One to two years later, you’re no longer a skinny / fat fuck and people take notice of you.. women in particular. It’s a long process, but relatively speaking, it’s easy – you don’t have to be intelligent to lift weights, you just need to be determined.

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It’s also easy to map out your goals, record your progress and adjust your approach if things aren’t going quite as planned.

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The best place to measure your strength is here:

https://symmetricstrength.com/

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Dial in your latest lifts and don’t bullshit yourself with 1RMs you’ve never tested.

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How did you do? Score of around 30-50? Subpar to Novice Level? Sounds about right. You still don’t know what strength is but at least you know how weak you are.

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Yeah, you’re a weak motherfucker. Suck it up.

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Mental frame isn’t so easy. There is no website where you can measure its strength. There is no gym you can go to to make it stronger. There is no roadmap to building a better frame. The sidebar will help you get there but in the end, your frame has to be yours – it has to be built by you, handcrafted by you, made rock solid by you. It becomes – not just part of who you are – but the essence of who you are.

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A good litmus test for frame is this –

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- Do you struggle with the concept of frame?

- Do you think about frame a lot?

- Do you often wonder whose frame you are in?

- Do you often think about whether you held frame / broke frame in certain situations?

- Do you worry about other people’s opinions of you?

- Do you spend time thinking about what your wife might be thinking about?

- Do you have to keep reminding yourself that you “are the prize”?

- Do you ever ask yourself “do I have the frame to do this?”

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If you answered yes to any one of those questions, your frame is weak. If you answered yes to all of those questions, your frame is non-existent. You still don’t know what strength is but at least you have an idea of how weak you are.

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One thing building mental frame has in common with building physical frame, is that it takes time. You can't walk into the gym as a skinny fuck and expect to walk out 2 months later as a beast. It just won’t happen. The same applies to mental frame... you're basically doing a mental recomposition and you're doing it without a roadmap. How you get there comes down to you.. the road will never be the same for two people. A lot of the time you're finding your way in the dark. You'll fuck up a lot along the way. But really, there's no other way to do it.

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Mental frame must never be neglected – all the concepts you read about in MRP stem from this and form a feedback loop with it.. Outcome Indpendence, Leadership, IDGAF, being the Captain, being The Prize etc.. using these concepts will help you build frame and when you have solid frame, all of those things become easy.

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The biggest Litmus Test of all is this – when you no longer think about frame or worry about it, when it becomes second nature to you and becomes part of your nature – that’s when you know you have frame. That’s when you know what real strength is.

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Until you build frame – both physical and mental frame – you will never see any real progression. You can’t devlop one and not bother with the other. There’s no point in being a strong, muscular fucker if your mental frame is shit. You’ll just be a strong muscular fucker who can still be mentally pulled apart and shat on by women.

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You can’t have a rock solid mental frame and be a fat fuck because you’ll still be a fat fuck.

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You need both. You need to be strong both mentally and physically.

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Until then, you don’t know how weak you are because you don’t know what strength is.