“We need you.” Three words from his wife sparked a transformation that went far beyond weight loss.
Colby was a husband, a father of two daughters, and the CEO/COO and part-owner of a title company. He knew how to work hard. He knew how to lead. He knew how to show up when people were counting on him.
But somewhere in the middle of running a business, becoming a dad, and navigating the stress of a growing family, he realized he had slowly drifted away from himself.
Most of his life, Colby had been in decent shape. He played sports, ran, hiked, and stayed active. But his fitness had become a cycle.
“I was sort of always the guy, the typical guy that gains ten pounds, loses ten pounds, gains ten pounds, loses ten pounds,” said Colby.
He had tried the programs most people try when they want to get serious. Insanity, P90X, the carnivore diet, or Whole30. For a while, something would work. Then life would happen, and the weight would come back.
Until it was no longer ten pounds.
“Before I knew it, it’s not ten pounds up, ten pounds down anymore. It’s fifty pounds up,” Colby said. “Running a business, having kids, the stress of figuring out how to navigate a new life with kids. It just kind of caught up to me.”
Then came the moment he could not ignore.
The Night Everything Hit Him
It happened in the middle of the night.
His wife had just gone through two intense labors and C-sections. They had a newborn at home. Sleep was almost nonexistent. Everyone was exhausted.
Colby remembers sitting there, tired and defeated, eating Oreos when his wife walked in. She had just been cleared to begin moving again after surgery, and she told him she felt like a stranger in her body. She felt weak. She did not know how she would feel like herself again.
Colby told her what most people say when they know the answer but have not yet been living it. They needed to eat better. They needed to start working out again.
Then she looked at him and said something he has never forgotten.
“We need you!”
That hit harder than anything.
“I teared up,” Colby said. “I just remember being like, I let myself down. I let my family down. I let my girls down. I have more to give, and I’m not giving it.”
That night, even running on only a couple of hours of sleep, he could not sleep. He knew something had to change.
Around that time, one of the John Madsen ads popped up on his phone. The message challenged him to look in the mirror and ask whether the man staring back was the man he wanted to be.
Colby took the challenge.
“I was basically at a crossroads,” he said. “You either make a change today and become that man, or it’s just going to get worse.”
He Didn’t Need Another Quick Fix
When Colby joined Supra Human in March 2024, he was 190 pounds. His goal was to get consistent, build structure, get lean, and start thinking about longevity.
But the deeper goal was bigger.
He wanted to become the man his life required him to be.
“I had the motivation,” Colby said. “I didn’t need the motivation. I just needed the blueprint.”
He was not looking for another short-term challenge or another diet to try. He needed a plan clear enough to execute in the middle of real life, with a newborn at home, very little sleep, and a business to run.
“I always tell people, you could figure this out by yourself, I’m sure,” he said. “But yeah, I could figure out how to do my taxes, too. I’m not going to read through the seventy-thousand-page tax code. I’m going to hire the best professional I know who does this day in, day out.”
From the beginning, Colby was clear.
“If you give me the plan, I will execute it.”
And that is exactly what he did.
The Work Nobody Sees
Colby’s first fat loss phase was built on consistency. He trained four days a week, hit his steps, tracked his nutrition, communicated with his coach, and kept showing up.
Eight months later, he went from 190 pounds to 157 pounds.
But the real transformation was not just in the number. It was in what he had to become to get there. He had to train through exhaustion. He had to break through gym anxiety. He had to stop using chaos as a reason to abandon himself.
At one point, while his daughter was a newborn and awake through the night, Colby still managed to get his steps in.
“I will walk ten thousand steps at two, three in the morning with my little girl,” he said. “That was the cutest weighted vest, my little newborn.”
That’s what most people don’t see in a transformation photo.
They don’t see the father walking through the house in the dark, holding his baby, protecting his wife’s recovery, and still keeping a promise to himself.
“It’s not one decision that changes your life,” Colby said. “It’s all of those micro decisions from day to day that nobody sees.”
Trusting the Next Phase
After his first fat loss phase, Colby thought he might be done.
He was lean. He felt better. He liked what he saw changing in the mirror. Then his coach, Jared, told him it was time to build muscle.
That phase was harder mentally than he expected.
“At first, when I was down to 150 and finished my fat loss phase, I was just like, man, I’m kind of cool here,” Colby said.
But Jared saw a version that Colby had not yet imagined.
“It was trusting my coach that he saw a vision for me that I didn’t even see for myself,” Colby said. “I had never been there before.”
That trust became a major part of his transformation. The scale had to go up again. His body had to change again. His mind had to catch up to the next goal.
Over time, the fear faded because Colby had evidence. He knew he could lose body fat. He knew he could execute. He knew the scale was not the enemy. It was just data inside a bigger plan.
“It’s a complete mindset shift,” he said. “I’m not worried about gaining fat anymore. Let’s ramp this muscle building up.”
Food Became Fuel
At first, nutrition felt complicated. Colby tracked because he knew he needed to, but he was constantly trying to fit in variety, old habits, and the foods he was used to eating. He called it “food Tetris.”
Eventually, something clicked.
“I started looking at food, for the most part, as fuel for my results instead of entertainment or enjoyment,” he said.
That didn’t mean he stopped living or stopped enjoying the food he loves. He still had dinners with his wife. He still went to business meetings. He still enjoyed a steak and an old-fashion when it made sense. The difference was that he stopped letting random choices steal from the bigger goal.
When something came up, he communicated with Jared. They made a plan. He learned how to enjoy life without abandoning the process.
“I stopped caring about the variety,” Colby said. “I started getting addicted to the result.”
From Gym Anxiety to Leading the Room
Colby did not start this journey confident in the gym.
“I had such bad gym anxiety,” he said. “I didn’t want to go in there and look stupid. I didn’t really know what I was doing.”
At first, he trained in his garage. Then he moved into a smaller community gym. As he worked with Jared, sent form videos, and built competence, his confidence grew.
Eventually, he moved into a serious bodybuilding-style gym.
“When I leveled up that environment, it leveled up my intensity,” he said.
The man who once worried about looking stupid now has people walking up to him asking for advice on form. People ask what drives him during training.
His answer is simple.
“I go in there to slay demons.”
That kind of confidence cannot be faked. It is earned through repetition, discipline, and the willingness to be uncomfortable long enough to become someone different.
Becoming Selfish Enough to Be Selfless
One of Colby’s biggest shifts was learning that his health could no longer be negotiable.
Before Supra Human, workouts could be moved, skipped, or squeezed out by work and family. Now, his training block is on his calendar, and his team knows it matters. His wife supports it because she sees who he becomes when he takes care of himself.
“You have to be selfish before you can be selfless,” Colby said. “When you become the best version of yourself, you’re going to be a better leader, a better father, a better husband.”
That belief changed how he moved through his day.
If he has Zoom calls, he walks. If he has a busy schedule, he parks farther away. If his week gets thrown off, he communicates and adjusts. The work gets done.
“No matter what, I’m going to get these workouts in, I’m going to get these steps in, and I’m going to hit my nutrition targets,” Colby said. “They’re nonnegotiable. Now they’re part of my day, like brushing my teeth.”
The Transformation Was Bigger Than the Weight
Colby’s physical transformation is undeniable.
He started at 190 pounds. He dropped to 157 during his first fat loss phase. He built back up to 185. He cut down to 166 for Supra Human’s Hall of Fame prep, then pushed into another muscle-building phase and reached 203 pounds with a completely different physique, confidence, and mindset.
But the numbers only tell part of the story.
The real transformation is the father who heard “we need you” and let it change him. The husband who stopped waiting for life to calm down. The business owner who put his workouts on the calendar and treated them as nonnegotiable meetings. The man who went from gym anxiety to becoming someone others look to for guidance.
Now, Colby wants his story to help other people see what is possible.
“If I could help other Supra Humans as a Hall of Famer reach the level of transformation mentally and physically that I’ve reached, that’s going to be far more rewarding than my own journey,” he said.
That is what happens when transformation matures. At first, you are fighting to prove something to yourself. Then one day, your life becomes evidence for someone else.
The Years Are Short
Because the people he loved needed more of him. And he decided to become that man.
If you can relate to Colby’s story and are ready to step into the best version of yourself, apply to our program. We’re ready to support your transformation.
“The days are long at first, but the years are short,” he said. “Before you know it, you’re five hundred workouts in.”
That’s the thing about earned transformation. It doesn’t always feel dramatic while you’re inside of it. Some days, it feels ordinary. Some days, it feels inconvenient. Some days, it feels like walking through the house at 2 a.m. with a newborn on your chest, taking steps while the rest of the world sleeps.
Then one day, you look up, and the man in the mirror is different.
Colby didn’t become someone new by escaping his life. He became someone new by bringing a higher standard into the life he already had.
His business did not get less demanding. Fatherhood did not get easier. The schedule did not magically open up.
The night his wife said, “We need you,” Colby listened.
Because the people he loved needed more of him. And he decided to become that man.
If you can relate to Colby’s story and are ready to step into the best version of yourself, apply to our program. We’re ready to support your transformation.
