Graham Ambrose is a Managing Director in Goldman Sachs’ Franchise Sales in London. To date, he has also emerged as a fitness influencer, although he has been building it for some time.
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Bloomberg reported on Ambrose’s alter ego earlier today, but many more details are available on Ambrose’s Instagram account, including photos of his former bulk and his modern day very muscular self bench pressing, squatting and showing off his torso his. The more time goes by, the better Ambrose gets.
His Instagram account also includes clips from Ambrose’s own podcast, which explains his approach to life and exercise, in which he discusses how difficult it is to eat healthy when flying business class, how to recover from stress, obtained while playing golf, whether to eat eggs, whether to eat raw meat, whether to immerse in cold water, etc.
Along with his day job at Goldman, the inference seems to be that Ambrose is aiming to become a fitness influencer for the middle-aged man in financial services.
If you don’t have time to listen to Ambrose’s musings, or if you want a quick summary of his approach before diving in, here’s what we’ve gathered from his Instagram Reels…
The dream is big
“Sleep really is a weapon,” Ambrose says, quoting Matt Damon/Jason Bourne. “I think everyone in my industry is sleep deprived and will face a big problem later in life.”
In a separate post, Ambrose says that sleep is like a cloud for the mind. “I think of it like an Amazon Cloud account or your Apple cloud, where if everything stays on your phone in your photos, your phone won’t be able to take photos anymore. It needs to upload things to the cloud and your brain needs to categorize the information.”
Failure to exercise is similar to self-injury
“You’re actually roughing up your mind when you’re roughing up your body,” Ambrose states. “Every time I go to the gym, I’m desperate to lift heavier weights for more reps consistently over time. And every time I succeed, it teaches my mind that I can do things that I previously thought were impossible.”
Fitness is full of aspirations
“Everybody in the gym is trying to improve themselves,” he says. “Everyone around you has been in the situation you’ve been in before, and they’re all trying to do the same thing you’re doing, but they’re at different stages of their journey.”
Don’t go to the gym as a prelude to eating whatever you want
Fitness isn’t about burning calories, Ambrose says, adding that various colleagues and friends seem to think that’s the point. You go to the gym to get stronger. You run to improve your mental strength to get an endorphin rush. You don’t exercise to burn calories…Exercise is about making your body better, looking better and feeling better.”
Food isn’t inherently enjoyable, he adds: “You manage your eating, you use your eating to fuel your body, it’s that simple.”
Everyone likes it when you’re a grandma, including your wife
“The transformation over the last five years has blown me away, my friends, my wife,” Ambrose says, adding that his wife is “constantly laughing” in his before-and-after photos.
All this is positive for his career. “When you feel physically more confident, you are also more confident in your interactions with other people, whether with colleagues or clients and friends. Everyone wants to be around confident people, positive, happy people,” he concludes.
Ambrose has worked for Goldman Sachs in London for 24 years, since joining from ING Barings in 2000. He is not the only person at Goldman to voice an opinion on lifestyle issues. Last week, Goldman Sachs partner and head of prime brokerage sales, Brian Robinson, appeared on Business Insider to explain the benefits of sleep and drinking water. In 2018, a video appeared on Instagram 58 years old Alexander Dibeliusthe former head of Goldman Sachs’ operation in Germany, pushing his 34-year-old wife Laila Maria Witt.
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