James Harkins

James Harkins is a lifter and strength coach who has taken dozens of clients from total, untrained weakness to what he calls — with no exaggeration — brutal, towering strength.

He spent four years as an apprentice at Starting Strength Denver — one of the most respected barbell coaching facilities in the country — after working with a coach there himself and completing his own Novice Linear Progression. He knows this material from the inside: as a student, as an apprentice, and as a coach who has watched the method transform real people's lives.

He also publishes Meal Prep Mercenary, a daily newsletter for strength athletes who approach lifting the way my audience approaches most things: like an engineering problem to be solved with rigor and intelligence, not vague inspiration.

James is not here to sell you a lifestyle. He is not here to be your hype man or your motivational coach. He is here to make you strong — and he knows exactly how to do that.