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Welcome.
Welcome to the DPI Performance Collective. I'm Danny — ex-professional chef of nearly 20 years, personal trainer, and the bloke who built this community because I got sick of watching men in their 30s and 40s train hard for years and get nowhere. This isn't a place for hype, fad diets, or programmes that fall apart when real life gets in the way. Everything here is built around what actually works — practical training, real food, and the kind of consistency that creates lasting change. What's inside the free community: 🏋️ Training, education and programming guidance 🥗 Nutrition advice built around body composition and performance 🍳 High-protein recipes and meal prep strategies from an actual chef 📈 A place to ask questions, share progress, and stay accountable New here? Start with these three things: 1️⃣ Introduce yourself in the intro thread — tell us who you are, where you're at, and what you're working towards 2️⃣ Download the DPC Nutrition Blueprint — my complete guide to eating for body composition. Free for all community members. Pin it. Use it. 3️⃣ Check out the 12-week coaching plans if you want structure, accountability, and a programme built specifically around you. Three tiers are available depending on where you're at and how much support you need. DM me the word COACH if you want the details. The free community exists because I genuinely believe in giving value first. But if you're ready to go further, the coaching is where the real transformation happens. Glad you're here. Now let's get to work. — Danny | DPC Coaching
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Introduce yourself.
Welcome to the DPI Performance Collective. To help everyone get to know each other, drop a comment and introduce yourself. Share a few things: - Your name - What brought you here (what's not working right now) - Your main goal for the next 12 weeks - One habit you've been meaning to nail but keep dropping I'll start. I'm Danny Ives — PT, nutritionist, and ex-professional chef of nearly 20 years. I built this community after getting sober and realising I wanted to put everything I knew about food and performance into helping men build something that actually lasts. If you're here, you're already ahead of where you were.
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The DPC 12 Week Protocol.
I spent nearly 20 years in professional kitchens. I know what it takes to perform under pressure. To show up every single day regardless of how you feel. To build something that actually lasts. That's exactly what I've built DPC Coaching around. Not quick fixes. Not crash diets. Not programmes that fall apart the moment life gets busy. Real transformation — training and nutrition working together, built around your life, coached by someone who's lived it. I've just opened spots on my 12-week coaching plans—three tiers depending on where you're at and how much support you need. FOUNDATION — $240/month Self-guided but not alone. Online training programme, training and nutrition guides, and full access to the DPC Skool community. Built for the person who's ready to take ownership and needs the right structure to follow. HYBRID — $300/month. The most popular option. Everything in Foundation plus a tailored programme and nutrition plan built specifically for you, daily check-ins in week one, weekly check-ins throughout, and one 1-on-1 coaching session per month (If based in Perth). Built for the person who wants personalisation and accountability without the premium price tag. PREMIUM — $600/month Full access. Full support. A fully customised programme and nutrition plan, daily check-ins in week one, weekly check-ins, Skool community access, and one 1-on-1 session every single week (If based in Perth). Built for the person who's serious about results and wants eyes on them every step of the way. All three plans run for 12 weeks. All three include nutrition. All three are built around getting you a result — not just keeping you busy. If you've been sitting on the fence, this is the sign.
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Why I just spent a week teaching you something most of you don't need
To close the Teaching Ladder series properly: if Level 3 felt like a lot, that's because it is a lot — and most of you don't need it yet. The honest order of priority is Level 1, then Level 2, then Level 3 — not because Level 3 doesn't matter, but because it matters least until the first two are genuinely sorted. I'd rather you spend your effort on the calorie ceiling and protein target that actually move the needle than chase a micronutrient gap you don't have yet. Honestly — which level are you actually on right now? Level 1 (still dialling in calories/protein), Level 2 (timing refinement), or Level 3 (the details)? No wrong answer, just want to know where to aim next month's content.
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What actually gets adjusted at week 3–4 (and what doesn't)
A lot of people assume "adjusting the plan" means starting over — new programme, new diet, because week 2 felt flat. That's not what happens. What gets adjusted is calories and training load, based on how weeks 1–2's real data actually trended — not a guess, a response to what the numbers showed. What doesn't change is the baseline structure itself: the plan isn't scrapped because one week was flat, it's tuned. In practice that's a small calorie or volume shift, made once there's real data to shift it against — not a reaction to one bad day or one flat week. Most people either change nothing and stay stuck, or blow up the whole plan and lose the baseline they'd already built. Neither is the fix. Knowing which lever to move, and which to leave alone, is most of what coaching actually is at this stage — it's also why Hybrid and Premium clients get a real check-in built around this exact point, not a generic "how's it going." Discussion prompt: Have you ever scrapped an entire plan because of one flat week, when in hindsight a small tweak would've done it?
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Ex-chef. PT. Sober. I help men in their 30s-50s build real strength and sort out their nutrition. No gimmicks, no Ozempic. Free Blueprint inside. ⬇️
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