Forge Virtue Podcast

By Tomas Mones-Cazon

📈 Helping men build strong bodies, focused minds & pure hearts

⚔️ Catholic, Married, Founder

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May 04, 2026 Is Your Phone Bringing You Closer to God?
Your phone isn't neutral. Every hour you spend on it is either pulling you toward God or pushing you further away, and most men haven't been honest enough with themselves to figure out which one it's doing. The Epstein files. The Iran-Israel conflict. Fuel prices. Outrage cycles. None of it is yours to carry, but the algorithm feeds it to you anyway, and you let it. Then you wonder why you can't pray. Why you can't focus. Why you feel spiritually flat in a life that looks fine on paper.This isn't a discipline problem in isolation. It's a formation problem. The same brain you're training to seek a dopamine hit every ten seconds is the brain you're expecting to sustain an hour of prayer, deep work, or presence with your family. It doesn't work like that. In this video I cover what it actually costs you to stay plugged in, why turning off your phone doesn't instantly fix anything, and the one question that cuts through all of it.The Legion: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/the-legion FFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/ 1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/forgedFind out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://linktr.ee/tomas.mones
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May 02, 2026 @GoldenVitalist on Physical Excellence, the Human Form, and Why Weakness Is a Spiritual Problem
Tomas sits down with Matt (Golden Age Vitalist) and Blake to cover the intersection of vitalism, classical philosophy, and Christian spirituality. They get into why the Greek concept of thumos, the spiritedness of a man, is literally expressed through physical training. Why beauty is a theological category, not just an aesthetic preference. Why a fat, low-energy Christian is quietly undermining his own belief. And why the looks maxing scene, for all its early promise, collapsed into pure vanity. This is about what it means to pursue the human form as a duty to God, and how the discipline required to get there forges the interior virtues that make a man actually capable of contributing something to the world.
Matt's X: https://x.com/GoldenVitalist
Matt's YouTube: @MattKukta
Blake's X: https://x.com/blakeburris
The platform Blake is developing: https://zincmode.com/
Tomas' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomas.mones/
Tomas' X: https://x.com/tomas_mones
Fit for the Kingdom: http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/
Chapters
0:00 Opening and Guest Introductions
4:50 Our Journeys Into Vitalism
5:24 Matt's Story From Sports to Lifting
7:24 Why Lifting Is Different From Sports
11:00 Biohacking Nutrition and Optimization
16:57 Discovering Ray Peat and Jonathan Bowen
17:38 Aesthetics as a Path to the Divine
19:39 Theosis and the Perfect Human Form
22:18 Modern Architecture Crushes the Soul
24:51 Worshipping God in Body Mind and Spirit
29:17 What Looksmaxxing Gets Wrong
33:48 Looksmaxxing Is Materialism Not Virtue
36:19 Matt Inside the Looksmaxxing Scene
38:38 Holistic Training and the Greek Thumos
41:55 Training Forges Virtue and Character
43:42 The Will to Change Yourself
48:18 From Self Mastery to Community Impact
49:14 Pay the Farmer Not the Doctor
50:44 Was Jesus Shredded
53:45 Gluttony Seed Oils and Bodily Control
55:26 Looking Healthy vs Being Healthy
57:38 PUFAs Seed Oils and Real Health
1:00:50 Fat Priests and Christian Decline
1:02:27 Trad Catholicism and Orthodoxy Rising
1:04:19 Why the Latin Mass Converted Tomas
1:05:16 Soy Christianity and Embodied Faith
1:06:00 Beauty of Orthodox and TLM Liturgy
1:07:02 Closing Faith Fitness and Fraternity
1:08:08 Brotherhood and the Power of Mannerbund
1:10:48 Final Plugs and Resources
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Skool: Stop doing this alone, join a brotherhood of Christian men who will hold you to the standard you already know you should be living. → https://www.skool.com/fit-for-the-kingdom
FFTK: Come train, pray, and build with men in person. → https://fftkingdom.com/
1:1 Coaching: If you're tired of knowing exactly what you need to do and still not doing it, apply to work with me directly. → https://forgevirtue.com/
Find out more: links to all my social media profiles and content can be found here. → https://forgevirtue.com/links
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April 30, 2026 3 Rules That Kill the Phone Addiction for Good
Your phone is not a neutral tool. It's a trillion-dollar machine engineered to keep you hooked, and it runs on the same neurological mechanisms as drug addiction. The algorithms don't care about your prayer life, your focus, your family, or your formation. They care about one thing: keeping your eyes on the screen.Most men know this and still can't stop. That's not weakness. That's by design.In this video I give you three practical protocols for breaking that grip: physical boundaries that remove the option before the temptation hits, intentional friction that increases the space between boredom and the dopamine hit, and a single spiritual criterion that cuts through all the noise.The Odysseus and the sirens framework is the right one here. You don't beat this by trying harder. You beat it by tying yourself to the mast.Are you seeking a community of like-minded men who hold the same standard you're trying to hold?The Legion is a brotherhood of Christian men built around real accountability, weekly coaching, and a network of men who are actually doing the work. If you're done doing this alone, the door is open.https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/the-legionFit for the Kingdom in person events (FFTK):http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/Explore working with me 1:1: https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/forgedMy work:https://linktr.ee/tomas.mones#socialmedia #discipline #catholic #masculinity #phone0:00 Phone Addiction Is a Trillion Dollar Trap1:00 Why These Platforms Are Designed Against You2:24 Social Media Hooks the Same Brain as Drugs2:50 The Odysseus and the Sirens Lesson3:58 Tip 1 Physical Usage Protocols6:09 Tip 2 Intentional Friction and App Limits8:50 Tip 3 Does This Bring Me Closer to God10:35 How Doom Scrolling Rewires Your Brain12:33 Reclaiming Intention and a Life of Prayer13:43 Final Call To Actions
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17min
April 27, 2026 The Neuroscience of Discipline (And Why Willpower Always Runs Out)
Most men trying to build discipline are solving the wrong problem. They think the issue is motivation or consistency or not wanting it bad enough. But what's actually happening is neurological, and until you understand it, you're going to keep burning out at the same point in the cycle every time.This video is about what's going on inside your brain when you try to force yourself to do something hard. Dopamine isn't what you think it is. Willpower isn't infinite. And the difference between the continent man and the virtuous man isn't just philosophical. It maps directly onto what neuroscience now shows us about how the brain rewires itself over time.There's a reason some men eventually find it natural to do hard things, and others grind themselves into the ground trying. The biology explains it. And once you understand the mechanism, you'll know exactly what you're actually trying to do and how to get there.I also get into what this framework says about the martyrs, because no reward-based model of motivation can explain a man who gives up his life for a conviction. The answer to that question is where this whole thing ends up.Are you seeking a community of like-minded men who hold the same standard you're trying to hold?The Legion is a brotherhood of Christian men built around real accountability, weekly coaching, and a network of men who are actually doing the work. If you're done doing this alone, the door is open.https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/the-legionMy work:https://linktr.ee/tomas.monesFit for the Kingdom (FFTK):http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/#discipline #dopamine #virtue #neuroscience #masculinity0:00 Why Discipline Is Hard to Explain1:38 How Motivation Actually Works2:26 Behavior No Reward Can Explain3:21 What Dopamine Really Does4:38 Pavlovs Dogs and Habit Formation6:08 How The Gym Becomes A Habit7:24 Dopamine Can't Tell Right or Wrong9:14 Where Willpower Comes In10:52 Why Willpower Always Runs Out13:33 How Dopamine Gets Reprogrammed15:53 Practical Steps to Rewire17:46 Remove the Old Pathway19:34 Continent vs Virtuous Man21:20 How the Martyrs Make Sense23:29 Summary and Final Challenge
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26min
April 24, 2026 What Is Vitalism? Introduction to the Movement
Something is wrong with modern men and most of them can feel it without being able to name it. The fluorescent lighting, the processed food, the blue light, the endless scroll, the paycheck-to-mouth existence with no energy, no direction, and no real questions being asked. This is not just a lifestyle problem. It is a biological one, and it has a spiritual consequence.This roundtable is the introduction to a movement that is responding to all of it. Vitalism, at its root, is the recovery of what it has always meant to be human: energetic, embodied, connected to nature, capable of genuine agency. The Greeks understood this. Odysseus is not just a literary figure, he is a prototype. A man who is fit, tanned, full of life, full of virtue, and capable of putting ideals into action through his body.What this conversation actually gets into: the modern environment as a deliberate suppressor of male vitality, why the bug man is not a caricature but a biological reality, how sun, grounding, real food, and detachment from artificial inputs are not biohacks but a return to baseline humanity, why physical renewal is the necessary first step before the deeper questions of meaning, faith, and purpose can even be asked, and what bioenergetic theosis means for Christian men who want their vitalism to point somewhere beyond the aesthetic.The Bronze Age Pervert revival woke a lot of men up. But a Nietzschean dead end is still a dead end. This conversation takes the energy of that movement and grounds it in something with an eternal horizon.Guest Links:Blake’s X: https://x.com/blakeburrisJohnny’s X: https://x.com/MetabolicCowboyThe platform Blake and Johnny are developing: https://zincmode.com/Finlay’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vitalethoz/Finlay’s X: https://x.com/vitalethozTerra Essentials: https://terraessentials.nz/Tomas’ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomas.mones/ Tomas’ X: https://x.com/tomas_monesFit for the Kingdom: http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/0:00 Going Live1:22 What Is Vitalism4:42 People Are Waking Up7:46 Body as Vessel for the Divine9:51 Bioenergetics and Divine Ascent14:37 Vitalism Goes Mainstream20:11 Finlays Journey to Naturalism22:03 Avoiding Health Neuroticism25:50 Diet Supplements and Bioenergetics32:55 Agency Free Will and the Bug Man36:50 Questioning the Medicalised World37:56 BAP and the Emasculation Agenda39:27 Sexual Energy and Direction43:23 Christians Trapped at Step One45:33 The Young Mans Slave Trap46:32 Airplane Mode and the Sunrise49:50 Sunrise and Circadian Rhythm51:42 Dont Start the Day on Your Phone52:57 Sexual Energy Transmutation55:02 Going Offline into Real Nature57:55 FFTK Brotherhood in Practice1:00:30 Intentional Brotherhood1:02:46 BJJ as Brotherhood Builder1:04:13 Why Are We Bodybuilding1:06:30 Youth Need Leaders to Follow1:08:15 Rebuilding Muscle to Inspire1:12:40 Leaders Model the Path1:15:44 Recruiting Men to the Movement1:18:51 Health Enables You to Lead1:20:27 Closing Thoughts1:23:08 Follow the Guys
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1h 27min
April 23, 2026 God blesses his most retarded soldiers
Retardmaxxing might be the most theologically accurate description of how God expects you to live.There's a reason Christ said you have to become like a child to enter the kingdom of heaven. Not because thinking is bad, but because most of what we call discernment is actually just fear with a spiritual costume on. You already know what you need to do. You're just not doing it.This video makes the case that the overthinking, the optimizing, the endless reading without fruit, the "I'm still discerning my vocation" at 25 with no prayer life and no discipline, all of it is a trap. David didn't deliberate in front of Goliath. Paul didn't set up a five-year plan after Damascus. Peter stepped out of the boat.The Church has answers for every level of inquiry. But the baseline is simple: get baptized, receive the sacraments, say your prayers, go to Mass, and start doing the work. Everything else builds on that. And if your faith isn't producing fruit, virtue, charity, discipline, growth, it doesn't matter how many books you've read.Retardmaxxing is trust in divine providence, obedience to your spiritual father, and the humility to act on what you already know is true.Are you seeking a community of like-minded men who hold the same standard you're trying to hold?The Legion is a brotherhood of Christian men built around real accountability, weekly coaching, and a network of men who are actually doing the work. If you're done doing this alone, the door is open.https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/the-legionMy work:https://linktr.ee/tomas.monesFit for the Kingdom (FFTK):http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/#retardmaxxing #catholic #christian #discipline #retard0:00 Retard Maxing Plus Christ0:48 The Business Case for Just Starting1:37 Childlike Faith and the Sacraments2:31 Faith Without Works Is Dead3:10 Biblical Heroes Who Just Acted3:55 We Already Know What We Need to Do4:24 Scrupulosity Obedience and Simple Prayer5:33 Stop Overthinking Your Vocation7:04 Trust in Divine Providence8:08 Start Retardmaxxing Today
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10min
April 23, 2026 Does Your Body Match Your Beliefs? | JACKED FOR CHRIST
St. Paul says physical training is of some value. Not zero. Some. Most men read that and use it as permission to stay soft. That's not what he said.If you're going to spread the gospel, lead a family, and actually be someone worth following, your body is part of the argument. People decide whether to listen to you before you've opened your mouth. That's how human beings work, and pretending otherwise doesn't make you humble, it makes you naive.Plato said the philosopher king should be trained in physical arts and be of a healthy and sound body. The Greeks carved their heroes in marble because the form meant something. A man who has his interior life ordered tends to show it. It comes out in how he carries himself, how he speaks, whether he looks you in the eye. Your body is a gift. There is no piety in leaving it undeveloped.This video makes the case for the Eastertide bulk. Get in the gym. Put on mass. Build the kind of physical presence that backs up what you say you believe.Are you seeking a community of like-minded men who hold the same standard you're trying to hold?The Legion is a brotherhood of Christian men built around real accountability, weekly coaching, and a network of men who are actually doing the work. If you're done doing this alone, the door is open.https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/the-legionMy work:https://linktr.ee/tomas.monesFit for the Kingdom (FFTK):http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/#christian #catholic #bulk #discipline #masculinity
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5min
April 19, 2026 3 Signs God Wants You Single Right Now
Most guys asking whether they should be in a relationship are asking the wrong question. The real question is whether they're ready to lead one. A relationship isn't a reward for being lonely. It has a purpose, a direction, and a man who's supposed to be steering it. If you can't answer where you're taking her, you have no business stepping in. This video covers three specific signs that God might be calling you to stay single right now, and they apply whether you're already dating, thinking about it, or trying to hand this off to someone younger who needs to hear it.In this video I cover:-why your struggle with sexual sin disqualifies you before you even start-the difference between wanting a relationship and chasing female validation-why a woman cannot be your mission-what God is actually doing with your singleness if you're in a season of formation-how to honestly discern whether now is the time or notAre you seeking a community of like-minded men who hold the same standard you're trying to hold?The Legion is a brotherhood of Christian men built around real accountability, weekly coaching, and a network of men who are actually doing the work. If you're done doing this alone, the door is open.https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/the-legionMy work:https://linktr.ee/tomas.monesFit for the Kingdom (FFTK):http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/#catholicism #christianmasculinity #singleness #relationships #chastity #masculinity #discipline #catholic0:00 The Purpose of Relationships1:36 Sign 1 Sexual Sin3:56 Sign 2 Joy and Purpose From God6:38 Sign 3 God Is Still Forming You9:24 Wrap Up
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10min
April 13, 2026 Silencemaxxing for true interior peace
Most men have no idea why their life feels directionless. They're busy. They're training. They're grinding. But they never stop. And that constant motion is exactly the problem. The devil in the Screwtape Letters doesn't argue with his patient. He just keeps him distracted. A newsboy. A bus. Lunch. It works every time.Silence and prayer is indispensable. Without it, you have no way to aim your life at anything that actually matters. And a man without an aim is already losing, no matter how hard he works. YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN AIM.In this video I cover:-what the Screwtape Letters reveal about distraction and the modern world-why prayer is an act of aiming, not just an act of devotion-how Peterson's framework on aim connects directly to Catholic spirituality-the daily practice of realignment and why it compounds over time-what Christ means when he says the eye is the lamp of the bodyWant to go deeper and get into a brotherhood of men doing this together? https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/the-legionWe are rebuilding the west.My work: https://linktr.ee/tomas.monesFit for the Kingdom (FFTK): http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/#silence #prayer #masculinity #catholic #christian #discipline #focus

0:00 Introduction0:33 Modern Society & Noise1:46 The Screwtape Letters3:42 The Stream of Sense Experience6:45 Distraction Is the Weapon7:32 Why Silence Maxing Matters8:05 Prayer as Orientation9:13 Aiming at the Highest Good10:29 Daily Realignment12:05 The Eye Is the Lamp13:20 Prayer Is Aiming13:41 No Excuses for Skipping Prayer14:39 Rise Early, Aim High14:58 Silence Max Every Morning
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April 09, 2026 "Train Like a Horse" Philosophy That Changed THE TRAJECTORY of my life (Bulk Tutorial)
Most guys train hard and still stay small. They show up to the gym, they put in the sessions, they take the mirror photo, they do the secret ab check, and they wonder why nothing changes. This video breaks down the full approach to gaining serious mass, built from years of going from a 60kg pencil neck to pulling 210 off the ground, shaped in large part by the teachings of Eric Bugenhagen, the man who taught me more about lifting and bulking than anyone else.If you think you're eating enough, you're probably not. Most people are undereating by hundreds of calories and don't even know it. The bulk is not a 2,500 calorie day with a little ice cream for dessert. It is ruthless, intentional, front-loaded eating from the moment you wake up until the last hurrah before bed. And it has to be paired with heavy iron, compound movements, and the kind of training that drains your entire body by the time you leave the gym.This is the method. It worked. And if you actually follow it, it's impossible not to grow.In this video I cover:why 3,000 calories is basically maintenance and what you actually need to growthe exact meal structure I used to hit 5,000 to 6,000 calories a daywhy frontloading calories early in the day changes everythingthe case for raw eggs, raw milk, and whole food over supplementswhat Eric Bugenhagen taught me about bulking and lifting heavythe spiritual and physical argument for why a pencil neck has a duty to put on massthe Easter tide bulk and how I'm approaching the next phase of trainingWant to go further? Join men who are building themselves physically, spiritually, and in brotherhood:DM us LEGION or go here: https://fitforthekingdom.com.au/the-legionWe are rebuilding the west.My work: https://linktr.ee/tomas.monesFit for the Kingdom (FFTK): http://fitforthekingdom.com.au/#bulk #fitness #christianmasculinity #discipline #catholic #training #masculinity

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