About Bakman Health
Bakman Health is a fitness-and-habits site for regular American guys — the ones who work a full week, have maybe 45 minutes to train, and are tired of being yelled at by shredded strangers on the internet. The tagline is the whole mission: stronger habits for regular guys.
I'm Marcus Dean, and this is a one-man operation out of Charlotte, North Carolina. I started this site because almost everything I read when I was trying to get consistent was written for somebody else: people with two free hours a day, a meal-prep obsession, or a supplement sponsorship. What I needed — what I think most guys need — was someone honest about the boring parts. How you schedule a workout you won't skip. What week three actually feels like. What a realistic grocery run looks like. How long results really take (spoiler: you'll feel it around week three and see it around week eight, and anyone promising faster is selling something).
Who I'm not — read this part
I am not a certified trainer. I am not a dietitian. I am not a doctor, physical therapist, or any kind of health professional. I've never claimed a credential I don't have, and you won't find one invented anywhere on this site. What I am is a guy who quit fitness routines for a decade, finally built one that stuck in his thirties, and kept logs the whole way. My lane is habits, schedules, costs, gear, and honest field notes from my own training.
Because of that, this site follows two hard rules. First: I don't give medical advice, ever. No diagnosing, no treating, no supplement claims, no promises about your body. Second: when an article touches actual health science — how much exercise official guidance recommends, protein targets, sleep duration — I cite the actual institutions (the CDC, NIH, ACSM, USDA) and link them, so you can check the source instead of trusting a blogger. Anything beyond what the guidelines say is clearly framed as my personal routine, not a recommendation for you. The full version of this is on the Health Disclaimer page.
What you'll find here
- Training: programs I've actually run, like the 3-day dumbbell plan, with full week-by-week detail and honest timelines.
- Eating: food logistics for adults — default meals, simple protein math, grocery costs. No diets, no demonized foods.
- Sleep & Recovery: logged experiments like my 30 days of a fixed wake time.
- Gear: what's worth buying at each price, and what I wasted money on so you don't have to.
- Consistency: the real product of this site — how to still be training in month six.
How this site makes money
Right now, it doesn't. The plan is ordinary display advertising down the road (details in the Privacy Policy). I don't do sponsored posts, I don't sell supplements or coaching, and gear opinions are about products I bought with my own money. If that ever changes, it'll be labeled in plain English.
Questions, corrections, or a story about your own week-3 quit? I read everything — contact me here.