The Nick Burns Show

Can you actually get in shape after 40 with four kids and a packed schedule? In this solo episode of The Nick Burns Show, Coach Nick breaks down why fitness has to become a family habit, not a solo project. Nick shares how he went from 270 pounds and an Oreos-and-milk habit to a household where his kids look up and ask, "Dad, where's the protein?" He covers meal prep for the whole family, why he s...

Motivation is a lie. Two fit operators, one running an energy company of almost 100 people and the other coaching the industry's leaders on their health, agree on the thing nobody wants to hear: if you are waiting to feel motivated, you have already lost. In Episode 06, Nick sits down with Nick Williams, President of Viking Power Technology, former college football player and coach, faith-driv...

A nutrition system for executives: reverse dieting, macros, alcohol, and how to eat 4,000 calories a day at 10% body fat without storing it as fat. For seven years I did the opposite and got nowhere. Gym five days a week. Cardio almost every day. Some weeks down to 1,200 calories. The scale never moved. In Episode 05 of The Nick Burns Show, I walk through the entire nutrition system I use with lea...

Andrew Keck is a mid-40s leader in the energy industry. Houston hours, catered lunches, work dinners, a two-year-old at home. He was already training nearly every day, and the scale would not move. Then he fixed his nutrition and dropped 24 pounds in three months while eating more food than before. In this episode, Andrew sits down with Nick to break down exactly how he did it. Why the office, and...

JP Warren has been in oil and gas for 21 years. He sits at tables with 10 CEOs and says 8 of them have imposter syndrome. Including him. In this episode, JP opens up about the COVID stretch where he was drinking vodka sodas at 11am and self-sabotaging his own business in slow motion. He talks about the two friends who pulled him onto a jiu-jitsu mat and what that reset gave him. He shares the Fort...

Most leaders in oil & gas have built companies, raised families, and climbed careers — but the one thing they keep deprioritizing is themselves. In Episode 2, Nick sits down with Massiel Diaz to unpack what 12 years of getting fitness wrong taught her, and what executives in this industry need to hear before they hit 40 and wonder where their energy went. Massiel shares the decade-plus she spe...

In this first episode, Nick Burns breaks down the full story behind who he is today — from growing up overweight and struggling with identity, to serving in the U.S. Army with two combat tours, to building a business that has helped over 2,800 people transform their lives.