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Desert and sea are the incongruous pairing when sailing along Baja, where cactus-studded mountain ranges plummet to a Gulf full of marine life. Miles of isolated coastline make for stunning cruising grounds. We love the remote, wild-west feel of the Sea of Cortez… but we need to stay connected. There are approximately 2,534,934 more cardón cactus than cell towers here so we rely upon our Iridium GO.

What do we use it for? Keeping up with email. Checking news. I get twitchy without dipping into social media. Most important is weather: in case we needed a reminder, an early-season hurricane threatened to come our way as we sailed up the Sea these last couple of weeks. These are much the same tasks/functions we use on passages, too. I’ve detailed how we make the GO work for us below to share from what we’ve learned, help with understanding what it can do, and maybe set some expectations. [Unless noted otherwise, the context for all this is an iPad, because that’s what we use!]

Pre-departure checklist

Effective use off the grid starts with preparation before sailing away.

Prep for email:

Set up ‘normal’ emails to forward to the Iridium email address, leaving original on the server (so it will download to laptop later when we have wifi later). Prevents needing to pass out the dedicated Iridium email address. Email to that address only accessible with the satellite connection, which is very inconvenient once you’re back in wifi land.

Put ‘normal’ email as the reply-to address in Iridium Mail & Web app settings, to avoid replies getting locked in the Iridium inbox.

Purge the Iridium email inbox (or risk a painfully long download of the old messages you’ve forgotten). This purge is done on the Iridium website: visit http://iridium.com/mailandweb, login BELOW the Iridium logo (not at the top of the frame!), select Change Email (also on that line below the Iridium logo), and scroll down for buttons to purge Inbox and Big Mail (messages over a certain size are shunted here).

Prep for browsing:

Use the Opera browser. Iridium defaults to Safari with recommended links for lower-bandwidth information access. I found these too slow to bother with.

Tune Opera browser: select the red ‘O’ – choose ‘Savings Enabled’ and select Mini. Under advanced settings, turn off images. I pre-set the home page, aka Speed Dial, with sites or pages I want to use while we’re remote

Prep for social media:

Posting to a Facebook profile? Authenticate Facebook to connect and post with the Iridium Mail & Web app at http://fb.myiridium.net/. Facebook requires this handshake every 60 days. The Facebook app is not GO-friendly.

Posting to a Facebook page? Whoops, Iridium app feature only posts pics to profiles, not to pages! I prep by scheduling a few Totem page posts with favorite pictures while we’re away.

Using Twitter? You can connect a Twitter account to facilitate posting (the Twitter app is not GO-friendly). When we crossed the Indian Ocean in 2015, I set up Twitter to send texts for certain tweets to our Iridium messenger.

Managing email

We use the Iridium Mail & Web app to manage email. It’s… basic, and a lot of it still acts like beta software, but it’s functional and free. Emails are delivered in plain text format; most attachments will make a message too big to be practical for available bandwidth. For other (paid) email clients, see third-party apps listed on the Iridium site.

Composing email is a lot easier with a Bluetooth keyboard (I use this $19.99 keyboard from Arteck as an easy way to get it done). Sometimes I want to use my laptop and fullsize keyboard; I get those tomes into email by converting them into pdf files that can be transferred to the iPad, then copy/paste the contents into a message.

Sending / receiving email takes time. Here’s a snapshot of the download dialog while I retrieving messages one morning. It took almost 20 minutes! Crazy if you’re used to normal internet. When you can do it from somewhere remote and beautiful? Who cares!

Remote and beautiful: a sea level view of the anchorage at top – Puerto Don Juan. No cell towers here!

Browsing the web

“Browsing the web,” blithely stated as if it were remotely like what you do on a typical wifi connection…. Oh, it’s not! It is like watching paint dry or grass grow, and if you have any hopes for speed remotely resembling what you have at home, it is an exercise in frustration. Shed those expectations! Just enjoy what you CAN do.

It usually takes a few minutes to load the text-version of a web page. Here’s a quick comparison of how Race to Alaska’s Facebook page compares in stripped-down Opera Mini vs. normal display. (Tangent: talk about a nail biter with R2AK! We know crew on two of the boats clawing their way north right now, Sail Like A Girl and Wild Card. Go go go teams!)

I usually have my iPad (downloading *whatever* via the GO) next to me while reading on my Kindle… read a few pages, check GO progress, read a few more… you get the picture. It takes several minutes for a single page. The first one often requires multiple retries before something seems to click in, but once it does, you’re good. When we sailed from Puerto Vallarta to La Paz last month I browsed for cake recipes online via the GO, and found a fantastic berry trifle for Siobhan’s birthday (the same day as our landfall in Baja, graciously served by the Bahia de los Muertos palapa restaurant).

Social media

We use Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. These apps are not accessible with a GO data connection, but Iridium’s app facilitates posting lower resolution images to a Facebook profile or Twitter account. Web pages for both can be accessed using Opera. The quality can be surprising: this image I posted from our last remote anchorage, off Isla Angel de la Guarda, was good enough to garner comments. The high-bandwidth nature of IG isn’t suited to the GO at all and T&Cs don’t allow scheduling, so our insta goes dark when we’re away from normal internet access.

I’ve seen some pretty blurry pics posted via the Iridium. Our MO: take a preferred image, use a resize app on the iPad to shrink dimensions, and attach to the Facebook function in the Iridium Mail & Web app to post. Our image settings in Mail & Web are set to 100 (scale of 0-100) with ‘resample’ on; dimensions here for 600 pixels wide. The pic above came out at about 44k, which isn’t horribly onerous to squeeze through while looking decent.

It’s a bummer that the Iridium’s Facebook posting function only works with profiles; many boats, Totem included, maintain a Facebook page as an alternate kind of daily blog. But I can at least access a text version of the Totem page through Opera; I enjoy staying connected to dialogue with anyone good enough to give us their time by engaging there.

Other cruisers!

The GO makes it easy to keep up with other cruisers, too. Texting between two GOs was the easiest way to stay in touch with friends on SV Manu Kai as we sailed towards a deserted bay in southern Mexico a few months back. This week, when we arrived in Puerto Peñasco, we reported back the marina situation (no berths!) SV Lea Scotia, waiting in Isla Angel de la Guarda by text from our GO to their InReach… an email to the GO account on SV Empyrean let us fill in more details to share.

Weather

This is the A-Number-One, Most Important By Far reason we have the GO: good weather data, dependably delivered. We primarily use PredictWind, which is tuned for the Iridium device (more about how we do that in this post). For this last overnight run up the Sea of Cortez, a look at the current patterns was helpful in directing our route to Peñasco.

A quick comparison of weather models indicated winds would be light or extra light. Cue the motorboat ride! In these examples, the GO is used on a Windows laptop.

Comparing different weather models – easy with PW – indicates probable forecast accuracy.

iOS quirk: there’s a proxy setting to tweak for the GO’s wifi connection. In the iPad settings, choosing the GO’s wifi network > click that circled i for information > Configure Proxy > switch setting to “off” for PredictWind downloads and set to “automatic” for… everything else. Minor.

Setup

None of what I wrote above matters if you don’t have a good Iridium setup to start. First, don’t cheap out on the hardware. The external antenna is essential, tempting as it is to cut that cost. So is quality cable to connect device to antenna. This bundle does the thinking for you.

Second, give yourself ample time for setup and do it while you have good internet connectivity in case you need to troubleshoot. This bears repeating: give yourself ample time for setup! I don’t mean a few days before you expect to need it – I mean a couple of weeks to make sure you’ve figured it out and eveyrthing’s working. Seriously. Most complaints/frustration stem from leaving it too late. PredictWind has good instructions (including video tutorials) to assist.

Finally, having the latest firmware update makes a significant difference! Download link and instructions here. Each update has provided a leap in functionality and/or connection speeds.

All good?

This post hopefully is useful for people wondering how they’d use an Iridium GO and if it’s worthwhile having on board. Did I do OK? Let me know, in the comments or through our contact form, if there are other questions I can help answer. After 3+ years and a couple of oceans, we’ve worked out a few kinks and found this an invaluable piece of kit for our cruising needs.

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I made my first foray into the wild west that is the internet.

  Armed with the decidedly non-creative of name of Alex Mullan Fitness Systems (Hi, Roman), I set forth to realize my dream of helping people become jacked, shredded, and tanned from the 15” headquarters that is my faded, sticker-riddled MacBook.

While I’m loathe to admit this, I was naive enough to entertain the thought that if I built a website and offered coaching, clients would roll in, and I’d soon be living the dream.

Financially free, able to go wherever I please, and answering to nobody aside from myself.

Naive thoughts aside, looking back, I made detrimental, glaring mistakes.

I had no idea who I wanted to speak to (no niche, no target market, no ideal client).

I didn’t know jack shit about marketing (if you want to build a business, you need to learn the basics).

As a result of not knowing who to speak to, the content I put out was sporadic, all over the map, and honestly, quite terrible.

I operated under the assumption that I could do it all myself, in spite of all the above.

….

Guess what happened?

The clients didn’t come.

I struggled to write anything.

I helped few but a small handful of people, which was far shy of what I wanted.

None of the key metrics (emails, clients, site traffic, $$) ever trended upwards.

Unsurprisingly (given my mindset), I lost interest.

Within 10 months of launching, the site became an abandoned ghost town. When it came time to renew my domain, I let it be, and turned my head as Alex Mullan Fitness Systems (of which I’d sunk about 3.5K into) sunk into the void of the internet, never to be seen again.

Deep down, the dream that pushed me to make that first foray into building a business I believe in never truly died, but it did slip to the back of my mind (for a time). The following two years saw a mixture of in-person training, slinging of overpriced lattes, leg day after leg day, and a lot of wine.

All the while, the nugget of my online dream slowly began to imperceptibly permeate my thoughts, actions, and foster a mission.

It took me two years (give or take) to begin to find answers to the glaring mistakes above.

Similar to a phoenix rising form it’s ashes, over those two years, the concept for MASSthetics slowly grew, and unfurled from the failures of Alex Mullan Fitness Systems.

Dreams and goals take time to achieve. Nothing happens overnight, and nothing great happens without an immense amount of work.

Even though I took what was more or less two years off from working towards what I wanted in a literal sense, I’d argue that it was a necessary reprieve.

Because, over those 2 years…

…I figured out who exactly I wanted to speak to.

…I came to better understand what makes me tick.

…I gained more experience of which I could draw from.

…I developed an appreciation and understanding for what it would take to make this dream a reality.

…I recognized that I couldn’t do it myself.

…And perhaps most importantly, I nurtured the confidence and audacity needed to do the damn thing.

Which meant that when the time came to answer the call to begin anew – which came in the way of Roman deciding to put forth a mastermind – I was much better prepared, knew what I needed to do, and ready to go all in.

Thanks to Flakebook’s impeccable memory, I’m reminded of what was the first day of this adventure, and appreciative of all that’s come to pass over the last 4 years.

As for today?

Today marks the first birthday of MASSthetics.

Exactly one year ago, with no idea as to what would happen, my favourite brainchild took the leap and dove

All of which has led me to pen this post upon the walls of MASSthetics, in conjunction with my personal retrospective.

Powerful thought from @sethgodin. Do you commit to making a change or transformation? Or do fall into the "transformation tourist" zone? If you're a tourist, drop a comment and let me know how I can help you flip that switch. #MASSthetics #SethGodin #FlipTheSwitch #BrainGainz #BringingZaneBack

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Now it’s a party

Truth be told (now that I look back), there is a lot for me to celebrate from the past year when it comes to MASSthetics. Everything from hitting my email growth targets, to building site traffic, guest posting all across the internet, adding 3 different revenue streams, and the list goes on.

I’m not here to brag (too much), or prattle on about everything that seems worthy of even a hint of celebration. Instead, I want to focus on the most impactful wins. The wins that truly helped to move the needle forward, and fed into everything from the list above.

Onward.

Big Win #1

I launched MASSthetics into the world exactly one year ago today.

As I touched on above, Alex Mullan Fitness Systems quite quickly faded into the abyss of the internet. The fact that MASSthetics has not only survived it’s first rotation around the sun, but has grown month over month, and has been able to support me, my meathdeaded lifestyle, caffeine addiction, and my zest for travel, well, that’s a win and a half.

Big Win #2

Piggybacking off of the above, I was busy slinging lattes 40+ hours per week while I worked towards getting MASSthetics to place where I could take the leap into full-blown self-employdom. For 4 months, this is what my life looked like.

330AM – wake up, have coffee, get ready for 8 hours of mainlining espresso and slinging lattes.

430AM-1PM – sling all of the lattes.

1PM-4PM – eat, have more coffee, chip away on MASSthetics.

4PM-7PM – I also happened to be moving into prep at the same time (bad idea). This is when I would eat, train, and practice posing.

7PM-11PM – A mixture of spending time with my then-girlfriend (we also trained together), and working on MASSthetics.

…Rinse and repeat. Day in, and day out.

Once I officially launched MASSthetics into the world, it took two more months before I was able to take the leap, and sling the last latte.

Needless to say, that was an absolutely hellish schedule, and being able to break free of that was a massive relief.

Big Win #3

I landed (multiple) guest posts on every website that I grew up turning to for training ideas, session inspiration, and knowledge.

T-Nation, Roman Fitness Systems, EliteFTS (where I’m now a monthly columnist), Bodybuilding.com, JMax Fitness, and more.

These are the sites I was inexplicably drawn to when I was young, dumb, and learning to navigate my way through the trials of learning how to train properly. To have come full circle and be able to contribute to these sites that I grew up admiring, well, it feels pretty damn cool.

My #teamelitefts shirts showed up just in time to trash legs today. I've gotta say, to be a part of such a respected company and collection of meatheads, is rather surreal. Also, I dig black and white. #thethickening #roadtonationals

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Opportunities for growth

It would be easy to look at the above, assess where things are, and comfortably sit back on my laurels and cruise.

But…

I can’t do that.

That ain’t me, and honestly, I’m glad that the ambition to keep pushing forward has a tight hold on me.

While there isn’t much that’s not working, the growth opportunities are more about throwing some gasoline on the fire, and fine-tuning things to run more efficiently (lead generation, content production, email list growth, etc).

Growth Opportunity #1

100% of MASSthetics’ growth has been organic. Meaning, I haven’t spent a dime on advertising or driving site traffic. All of the growth has been built off the back of guest posting 2-4 times per month, writing 2 articles per week for MASSthetics itself, emailing the MASSthetics Clan every single day, and bringing clients the results they want.

Between MASSthetics aging and my desire to see continued growth, I believe it’s time to give things a nudge, and start paying to play.

Growth Opportunity #2

Products, products, and more products.

Currently, MASSthetics offers the 8 Week Leg Assault (on sale this week), and Mullan’s Meatheads (a private group that receives exclusive programming and support).

By this time next year, I intend to have both a Back Assault (taking beta testers now), and Arm Assault programs to accompany the above.

Growth Opportunity #3

Ah, the biggest opportunity for growth, and a goal that’s been with me since day one.

Since inception, my goal with MASSthetics has been to nurture it into something that’s bigger than myself. Meaning, I intend to bring in a coach (or two). I don’t plan on MASSthetics being a one man show come years end. Rather, I want to build this brainchild into something that has a team of like-minded coaches.

Doing so will allow MASSthetics as a whole to help more people rise to jacked, shredded, and tanned-dom.

I concur. #nocaptionneeded #makegoodart #maytheforcebewithyou

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Taking the next steps

A few weeks ago I had my quarterly call with my biz wizard and coach, John Romaniello. From top to bottom we went over every key aspect to MASSthetics, what needs improving, and what more I could be doing.

Anticlimactic as it is, the truth of the matter is there isn’t much that’s not working. Which means all that needs doing is more of that consistency thang I always ramble on about, and as mentioned earlier, to start throwing a little gasoline on the fire.

Action Step #1

Rather than hire someone to handle my advertising efforts, I’m investing into myself and learning the ins and outs of Facebook advertising. Not only is more economical in terms of cost, but with my goal of growth, I believe it’s an important skillet to learn.

Action Step #2

As mentioned earlier, I’m currently in the process of building the 8 Week Back Assault. It will launch in May, shortly after the test squad (email alex@massthetics.net if you’re interested) has been put through the ringer. At that point, I’ll start building out the 8 Week Arm Assault, ideally in time for a launch around my birthday (September 24th).

Action Step #3

Simply put, I’m going to keep my head down, continue writing what’s usually around 7-8000 words per week, and marching onward.

What am I going to do about my biggest growth opportunities?

Growth is all about taking action, not merely talking about it. To that end, here’s what I’m going to do move closer and closer to where I want MASSthetics to be.

1. I’m going to stop being fearful, stop playing small, and start investing on a larger scale into the growth of MASSthetics. That means better design across the board (blog, products, social media content), setting up ads to drive traffic with the intention of reaching more meatheads, building the email list, and helping clientele.

2. The 8 Week Back Assault is already in it’s early stages of development, and will be followed up with its arm counterpart later in the year. If you want in on the beta squad, you can see the details here.

3. I still need to sit down and map out where this is, but I’m going to plan my threshold for brining in one coach and two coaches. Once I hit those active client/waiting list thresholds, I’ll pull the trigger (no matter how unnerving it may be), and bring the *right* person into the fold.

As cliche as it is and cheesy as it sounds, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past 365 days of trying my hand at this whole business thing, it’s this:

If you’re willing to make sacrifices, remain devoted to your mission, and learn from where you inevitably fuck up, you can accomplish anything you want.

  PS. 4 out of 5 lifters will let their rationalization hamster run wild. Building no muscle, burning no fat. The 5th lifter joined the MASSthetics Clan and put the information within the (free) Hypertrophy Handbook to good use. Problem solved. Click here to become the 5th lifter, and let me know where to send the prestigious Hypertrophy Handbook.