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Bodies By Akeem Founded in 2015 with a clear philosophy: people achieve extraordinary results when they train in an environment built entirely around their success.

Not a commercial gym — a private performance studio without distractions Bodies By Akeem is a private training strength and conditioning studion located in North Austin. All clients are seen by appointment only, which enables us to maintain a crowd-free space. There are no general memberships or annual membership fees. Our studio is totally private, pristine, and sanitized for your needs and safety. We specialize primarily in strength and conditioning, muscle building, body fat reduction, and complete nutrition mapping. We provide each client with the appropriate macronutrient plan of carbohydrates, protein, and fat. We leave absolutely nothing to chance. Bodies By Akeem's highest priority lies in increasing a client's overall quality of life. An example of client is a 58 year-old non-runner - who now runs 5k charity run every month, and is now planning to run a 5k in every single state over the next 3 years.

REAL FOOD FIRST: NOURISH YOUR BODY FROM WITHINBefore spending money on expensive vitamins and supplements, take a closer...
09/21/2026

REAL FOOD FIRST: NOURISH YOUR BODY FROM WITHIN

Before spending money on expensive vitamins and supplements, take a closer look at what you put on your plate. A balanced diet built around real, nutrient-dense foods can provide many of the essential vitamins and minerals your body needs to function, recover, and thrive.

Whole foods offer something supplements cannot always replicate: a combination of vitamins, minerals, fiber, protein, healthy fats, and naturally occurring compounds that work together to support your health.

For example, eggs provide protein, choline, and vitamin B12. Plantains supply potassium, vitamin B6, and carbohydrates for energy. Chicken hearts and gizzards provide iron, zinc, selenium, and B vitamins that support oxygen transport, immune function, and normal cellular processes.

When you eat a variety of nutrient-dense foods, you nourish your body while supporting muscle recovery, bone health, energy metabolism, and long-term well-being. However, real food and supplements are not mutually exclusive. Some people need supplements because of diagnosed deficiencies, medical conditions, dietary restrictions, pregnancy, or difficulty absorbing certain nutrients. Vitamin D and vitamin B12 are two nutrients that may require supplementation in particular circumstances.

The goal is not to eliminate supplements entirely. It is to avoid relying on unnecessary supplements when your nutritional needs can be met through a balanced diet.

I don't eat simply to satisfy my appetite. I carefully select my food based on the nutrients it provides and how those nutrients support my health, strength, recovery, and longevity.

Invest in the quality of your food before investing in a cabinet full of supplements. Your body needs nutrients, not marketing promises.

Learn to fall in love with your maturity. And by maturity, I don’t mean giving up, becoming boring, dressing plainly, or...
09/11/2026

Learn to fall in love with your maturity. And by maturity, I don’t mean giving up, becoming boring, dressing plainly, or acting “old.” I mean reaching a point in life where you no longer feel the need to apologize for the number attached to your age. That number is a blessing, and you should view it as such.

Fall in love with the fact that you’ve lived long enough to have stories, scars, lessons, failures, victories, and wisdom that your younger self simply could not have possessed. Understand that maturity also means knowing when certain chapters of your life have passed. You can’t always be the drunk idiot at every gathering, nor do you always need to be the oldest guy or woman trying to keep up at the club.

At some point, wisdom means recognizing that every space doesn’t have to include you. Let young people have their season, their experiences, and their space. Sometimes maturity simply means knowing when to step aside, get out of the way, and embrace the season of life you’ve earned.

Yes, your body may change. Maybe you can’t run quite as fast or jump quite as high as you did at 20. Maybe recovery takes a little longer. That doesn’t make you less capable or less valuable. It simply means you’ve entered a different chapter, and every chapter deserves to be celebrated.

The same applies to how we show up in public. Dressing your age doesn’t mean dressing old. It means allowing your style to mature with you. You can be 50, 60, 70, or 80 and still be fashionable, sexy, confident, athletic, elegant, and incredibly well-dressed. Maturity doesn’t require you to disappear. But there is something powerful about no longer feeling that you must compete with youth.

You don’t have to dress like your 18-year-old son or daughter to prove you’ve “still got it.” You don’t need to chase every trend designed for someone three decades younger. And this isn’t about judging anyone who enjoys youthful fashion. Wear what makes you feel good. Express yourself. Have fun.

The point is to stop believing that looking younger is the only way to look good. There is beauty in sophistication. There is beauty in refinement. There is beauty in knowing what works for your body, your personality, and the person you have become. How you show up matters. Getting older is a fu***ng privilege. Remember that.

There are people who would have given anything for another birthday, another gray hair, another wrinkle, another year with their families and friends. Just like you can't outwork a terrible diet full of ultra-processed foods at your local gym, you won't outrun aging. So stop treating aging like something you need to run away from. Embrace it.

Take care of your body. Strength train. Eat well. Dress beautifully. Stay curious. Laugh loudly. Travel. Dance. Flirt with life. Keep evolving. But remember to embrace the years you have earned.

You don’t need to look 25 forever. You need to look F.A.B.O.L.O.U.S., feel incredible, and live fully at the age you are. That is maturity. And there's not a damn thing wrong with that.

For those who are fans of American hip-hop music, you understand the reference to F.A.B.O.L.O.U.S. (That's not a misspelling.) If you are 45 and older, and are stepping out this weekend, put yourself together and look, yes, F.A.B.O.L.O.U.S.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Make it make sense. The bun can be healthy. The lettuce is healthy. The tomato is healthy. The onion is healthy. Cheese ...
09/09/2026

Make it make sense.

The bun can be healthy. The lettuce is healthy. The tomato is healthy. The onion is healthy. Cheese can absolutely fit into a healthy diet. And quality beef is a nutrient-dense source of protein, iron, zinc, and vitamin B12.

But somehow, the moment we stack them together and call it a burger, the whole thing gets arrested by the Nutrition Police.

But here’s the part worth thinking about:

The problem isn’t necessarily the burger. The problem can be what happened to the ingredients before they became the burger.

There’s a big difference between a burger made at home with quality lean beef, fresh vegetables, minimally processed cheese, a reasonable bun, and sensible portions, and a heavily processed fast-food version engineered for convenience, shelf life, consistency, and maximum palatability.

Add oversized portions, refined buns, highly processed sauces, excessive sodium, added sugars, large amounts of fat, fries, and a sugary drink, and now we’re having a very different nutritional conversation.

So maybe we need to stop labeling foods simply “healthy” or “unhealthy” based solely on what they’re called.

A burger isn’t automatically junk food. A salad isn’t automatically health food either.

Ingredients matter. Quality matters. Preparation matters. Portions matter. Frequency matters. And most importantly, your overall dietary pattern matters.

So yes, you can eat the burger. Just know what’s actually in your burger.

09/08/2026

Life is one of the greatest teachers you will ever have. Lessons of lige are everywhere. In the relationships that disappointed you. In the opportunities you were afraid to take. In the money you lost. In the people you. trusted. In the doors that closed. In the uncomfortable seasons you desperately wanted to escape.

But life rarely screams its lessons. Sometimes, you have to quiet the noise long enough to hear them. As my old sales manager use to say, "just quiet down the little guys in your head."

And perhaps one of life's greatest lessons is this: Everything you say you want will require something from you, because nothing great and sustainable is achieved by doing nothing.

You want financial peace? Then you must develop financial discipline. You cannot continuously spend tomorrow's security satisfying today's impulses.

You want people you can trust? Then become trustworthy yourself. Be honest when lying would be easier. Keep your word when breaking it would be convenient. Become the kind of person you keep asking life to send you.

You want success? Then eventually you will have to leave the safety of your comfort zone. Success rarely comes with guarantees. Sometimes you have to bet on yourself before anyone else sees what you see.

You want wealth? You have to learn patience. Real wealth is rarely built through desperation and shortcuts. It is built quietly through discipline, consistency, sacrifice, delayed gratification, and allowing time to multiply good decisions.

You want peace? Man, I love this one. I have been practicing this for more than two decades. I practice this one like a person of Muslim faith praying five times a day. Learn to set boundaries. Understand that not everyone deserves unlimited access to you.
Not every argument deserves your participation. Not every picture and videos of your daily life needs to be social media. Not every happy hour needs your presence. Not every house party requires your attendance. Not every phone call requires an answer. Not every relationship deserves another chance. Some relationships should have never happened in the first damn place.

Sometimes protecting your peace means disappointing people who benefited from you having no boundaries.

And if you want growth? Then make peace with discomfort. Because growth will ask you to do difficult things. It will challenge your habits. Expose your weaknesses. Bruise your ego. Test your patience. And force you to have uncomfortable conversations.
And sometimes require you to walk away from people, places, behaviors, and even versions of yourself that you have simply outgrown.

And that right there? is life in a nutshell. We spend so much time asking for the reward that we sometimes forget to ask whether we're willing to become the person capable of carrying it.

We ask for peace without boundaries. Trust without honesty. Success without risk. Wealth without patience. Growth without discomfort. But life doesn't work that way.

Everything you desire has a price. And sometimes that price isn't money. Sometimes the price is discipline. Sometimes it's patience. Sometimes it's courage. Sometimes it's saying no. Sometimes it's walking away.

So the next time you find yourself asking life for more, ask yourself a different question: What is the life I want asking me to become?”
Then quiet the noise. Listen carefully. And you will probably find out that life has probably been teaching you the answer all along.

Have a blessed day everyone!

09/03/2026

Though my client is 70 years old, I don’t train his age. I train his ability—and the ability I want him to maintain for years to come.

I see a capable body that still has tremendous potential to become stronger.

Here, he’s performing an incline dumbbell press with 30 pounds in each hand and a supported Bulgarian split squat. These aren’t exercises reserved for younger people. They’re movements that help preserve the physical qualities that become increasingly important as we age: muscle, strength, balance, coordination, bone-loading capacity, and confidence in movement.

After 70, strength training isn’t simply about building bigger muscles or lifting heavier weights. It’s about preserving independence.

The ability to get out of a chair without assistance requires leg strength. Climbing stairs requires strength and balance. Carrying groceries requires grip and upper-body strength. Recovering from a stumble requires muscular power and coordination. Continuing to travel, play with grandchildren, maintain your home, and live life on your own terms requires physical capacity.

That’s why I don’t believe aging should automatically mean lowering expectations. Training should be appropriately programmed, intelligently progressed, and individualized—but the human body still needs to be challenged.

We aren’t training simply to add years to life. We’re training to put strength, capability, and independence into those years.

08/26/2026

Why I Use a 16-Inch Elevated Deadlift

The 16-inch elevated deadlift is intentional. My primary objective here is to increase the client’s pulling strength by allowing him to develop force from a mechanically stronger starting position before progressing toward a conventional floor deadlift.

Elevating the bar shortens the range of motion and reduces the amount of hip and knee flexion required at the start. This allows the client to concentrate on several critical components of the deadlift: bracing the trunk, creating lat tension, maintaining spinal position, driving through the floor, and producing force through hip extension.

Most importantly, the elevated position can allow the client to handle greater resistance than he could safely and efficiently pull from the floor. That makes this variation valuable for overloading the posterior chain and strengthening the client’s ability to generate force against heavier loads. The glutes, hamstrings, spinal erectors, upper back, forearms, and grip are all challenged.

For this client, the 16-inch height is not necessarily the final destination—it is a training position. As his strength, technique, confidence, and positional control improve, the elevation can gradually be reduced: for example, 16 inches → 12 inches → 8 inches → 4 inches → floor.

That progression follows a simple principle: build strength where the client is currently capable of producing it, then progressively increase the mechanical demand.

The goal isn’t merely to teach him how to pick a barbell up from the floor.

The goal is to make him a stronger puller.


Aging is a natural part of life, but how we age can be influenced by many factors, including physical activity, nutritio...
08/24/2026

Aging is a natural part of life, but how we age can be influenced by many factors, including physical activity, nutrition, sleep, genetics, medical conditions, and lifestyle. While exercise cannot stop the aging process, **strength training can help preserve many of the physical abilities that contribute to independence and quality of life.

Beginning in adulthood, people gradually lose muscle mass and strength, a process that generally accelerates with advancing age. When significant, this age-related decline can contribute to reduced mobility, difficulty performing everyday activities, poorer balance, and an increased risk of falls.

Resistance training provides a powerful tool for addressing these changes. Regular strength training helps maintain and build skeletal muscle, improve muscular strength, support bone health, and preserve the physical capacity needed for everyday tasks. Activities such as getting out of a chair, climbing stairs, carrying groceries, lifting grandchildren, and maintaining balance all depend on adequate strength and mobility.

Importantly, strength training isn't reserved for young people or experienced athletes. Adults can benefit from appropriately designed resistance exercise throughout the lifespan. The program, intensity, exercises, and progression should simply reflect the individual's current abilities, training experience, health considerations, and goals.

The objective isn't necessarily to look younger or prevent every age-related change. Aging bodies will change, regardless of how consistently someone exercises.

The goal is to build and preserve as much strength, function, mobility, confidence, and independence as reasonably possible.

We cannot control every aspect of aging, but we can influence how physically prepared we are for it. Strength training isn't about fighting age. It's about building the physical capacity to live well at every age.

Your financial health is only as good as your physical health.We spend much of our lives working, saving, investing, bui...
08/20/2026

Your financial health is only as good as your physical health.

We spend much of our lives working, saving, investing, building businesses, buying homes, and preparing for retirement. We sacrifice today because we hope to enjoy the fruits of that work tomorrow.

But there is one investment that makes every other investment worthwhile: your health. You can have millions in the bank, a beautiful home, successful businesses, and complete financial freedom, but if your health prevents you from traveling, playing with your grandchildren, enjoying a meal with your family, walking without pain, or simply living independently, how much are those financial accomplishments really worth?

Money can provide access to excellent medical care, but it cannot guarantee health. It cannot purchase another healthy heart, restore every year of neglect, or guarantee additional time.

That is why taking care of your body should be viewed as part of your financial planning, not something separate from it.

Strength training is an investment.
Good nutrition is an investment.
Quality sleep is an investment.
Maintaining a healthy body weight is an investment.
Regular medical screenings are an investment.
Protecting your emotional well-being is an investment.

The return on those investments isn't measured simply in dollars. It's measured in years of independence, mobility, strength, energy, confidence, and quality of life. There is little value in spending 40 years building wealth if you spend your retirement wishing you had spent more time building your health.

So, yes, build your career. Build your business. Save your money. Invest wisely. Create generational wealth. But while you're building your portfolio, don't forget to build the body that will allow you to enjoy it.

Ultimately, wealth gives you options, but health gives you the ability to enjoy them. Your greatest asset isn't sitting in your bank account. It's the body carrying you through this life. So invest in it accordingly.

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2301 Denton Drive , Suite M
Austin, TX
78758

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Monday 7am - 7pm
Tuesday 7am - 7pm
Wednesday 7am - 7pm
Thursday 7am - 7pm
Friday 7am - 7pm

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