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Forge Virtue Podcast
by Tomas Mones-Cazon
Tomas Mones-Cazon went from a skinny, screen-glued kid during Covid to competitive powerlifter, traditional Catholic, and founder of Fit for the Kingdom. A dairy farmer, theology student, husband, and father, he tackles a problem he kept seeing: men who are spiritually serious but physically weak, or physically strong but spiritually empty. Here we put it together: training the body, drawing on 2,000 years of Church tradition, and building an interior life that holds up when life gets hard. Long-form theology, training philosophy, and honest conversations. Links: https://forgevirtue.com/links
Episodes
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You’re a Pharisee and You Don’t Know It
You're Good But Not Virtuous (Here's Why That Matters): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNqzd0dNvc Jesus saved His harshest words for the most religious men in Israel. They prayed, fasted, tithed and kept every rule, and He called...
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Can a Christian Be a Gym Bro?
Healthmaxxing for Christ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HxyOXe603w 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/ Gym culture has drifted a long way from where it started. The golden...
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The Good Things Ruining Your Life
1:1 Mentorship → https://forgevirtue.com/ Check out my video on why you're not lazy (it's much worse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W07OYChR8Y The desert fathers had a name for the man who is always busy, always out with his mates, always with something playing in the background. They called...
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What Hitting Snooze Says About You as a Man
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/ Most men think vice is a bad habit they can drop with one good decision. It isn't. Every sin you repeat leaves a mark on how you think, what you crave, and how...
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Healthmaxxing for the Holy Spirit - 9 Rules
I've spent years studying health maxing, vitalism, thumos, and virility through a Christian lens. This started back when I was eighteen, diving into a corner of the internet obsessed with physical excellence as a form of arete. Most guys treat the body and the soul like two separate projects....
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It's Not That You're Lazy
Distraction and destruction come from the same root word. That's not a coincidence, and once you see it you can't unsee it. I open this one with something I do with the men I coach directly, a habit that looks meaningless from the outside but is doing more work than anything else in their lives....
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Stop Trying to "Participate" At Mass | What Pope Leo XIV and Tradition Has to Say
Pope Leo XIV told the world on 26 August 2026 that the faithful must not be "strangers and silent spectators." Almost everyone will hear that as a call to do more at Mass. It is not. In this live stream we go back to the actual documents, in Latin where it matters, and show what the Church has...
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You Already Know What to Do. So Why Don't You Do It?
Podcast in reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AdkwqkE20M You already know what to do. You have known for years. So why does your life look exactly the same as it did twelve months ago? This is a short one, but it deals with the reason most men never change. I almost never finished the...
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Overcoming lust, father/son relationships, authentic femininity, and more | AMA 002
Chapters 1:19 How can fathers repair relationships with sons 13:16 Young man asking a woman for inappropriate photos 16:20 Where can I get FFTK Merch 16:52 How to Structure Morning Prayer 21:26 Would you take TRT when you get older 25:14 Helping teenage boys become real men 36:33 New haircut…
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Why Your Future Wife Will Resent You
A mother named Lindsay Clancy in Massachusetts killed her three children. Then women went on TikTok to say they understood her. That is where we are. And most people want to talk about it as an isolated tragedy instead of what it actually reveals about the state of marriage and the family right...
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Stop Waiting Until You Feel Like Praying
I don't get anything out of prayer. I've heard that from a lot of men. I've said it myself. And the moment you say it out loud, you've already told on yourself, because that sentence assumes prayer is something you're supposed to be extracting a return from. In this video I break down what prayer...
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"There's no good men" dating advice, how to quit smoking, work/life balance, and more | AMA 001
Live Q&A on faith, fitness, relationships, and life advice, open to everyone. Join Tomas from Fit for the Kingdom as we work through your questions on prayer, training, dating and marriage, discipline, and living a serious life in the middle of a world that makes it difficult. Ask your question:...
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Why You Hate Your Job (It's Not the Job)
Half your life is spent working. Most men have quietly accepted that half of it means nothing. I wrote an essay earlier this year on St. John Paul II's Laborem Exercens, and it's essential for revivifying and re-enchanting our view of life. We have taken something that Adam was doing before the...
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You're Not Actually That Bothered by Your Sin
Aquinas would tell you the will moves toward whatever it actually loves, and your loves are built by repetition, not by information. You can read the right books, listen to the right men, agree with every word, and still find your body walking toward the same sin at 10pm. The intellect can hold a...
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The Devil Doesn't Need You to Sin Badly
There is a man who believes in God and is losing anyway. He is not a bad man. He would tell you Christ is Lord and he would mean it. He goes to Mass. He would defend the faith if someone attacked it at a dinner table. And he is losing, steadily, in a way he has no vocabulary for, because nothing…
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You Gave God 95%. The 5% Is Why You're Stuck
Most men are in the same place they were two years ago and cannot work out why. They pray. They train. They get to confession. They read the right books. They go to Mass. Nothing moves. Fr. Chad Ripperger said something in his recent interview with Shawn Ryan that put language to a problem I see…
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Why You've Been Stuck Spiritually for Years
Modern Christianity has a massive blind spot, and most guys walking around calling themselves Christian have no idea it exists. Believing in Jesus and feeling sorry when you sin has become the whole religion for a lot of people. That's not Christianity. That's a watered down version of it, and…
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Divine Playhouse SHUT DOWN, MASSIVE Prayer Vigil Tomorrow | COUNTER PROTEST organised!
DIVINE PLAYHOUSE SHUT DOWN — MASSIVE PRAYER VIGIL TOMORROW Divine Playhouse (formerly Unholy Playhouse), the Sydney nightclub that mocked the Holy Eucharist, the Mass, and sacred Catholic imagery inside a 158 year old deconsecrated church on Kent Street, has been forced to CLOSE after a week of...
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Demonic Nightclub MOCKS Jesus in Sydney – Liam Aquilina LEADS PRAYER VIGIL Against the Blasphemy
LIVE: Standing Against the Demonic Blasphemy in Sydney - Prayer Protest at Unholy Playhouse with Liam Aquilina & Tomas Mones-Cazon Join us live as Liam Aquilina, who led the powerful Catholic prayer protest with hundreds gathered outside Unholy Playhouse on Wednesday night, shares eyewitness...
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Declaring War on Fat Christian Men
Fat Christians are losing the war before it even starts. I go after one of the most underaddressed problems in the church today, low energy Christianity. Gluttony gets treated like a minor issue, but it strips men of the vigor they need to lead, to fight, and to actually spread the gospel. A…
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Why Discipline Feels Like War (And When It Stops)
A city without walls gets sacked. That's what your soul looks like without this one virtue, and most men have no idea they're living exactly like that. Self-possession sounds simple until you actually try to define it. Most guys think it just means white knuckling through temptation, gritting…
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You Don't Know What Kind of Man to Become
The hero is dead. That's the actual crisis behind every "lost" young man you know. We built a whole society on maximizing freedom and individual choice, and in doing it we ripped out the one thing that gave men direction. Not feminism. Not video games. Not porn. Those are symptoms. The real...
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3 Days On, 4 Days Off: Why You Never Last
Virtue is hard enough on its own. Cold showers, prayer, training, diet, all of it comes with friction. But there's a second kind of friction nobody talks about. It's not physical. It's psychological. It's the look you get when you say no to the weekend drink. It's the "bro just take it easy" when...
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Why God Will Judge You for Playing It Safe
Most men spend their whole lives inside a single circle. They get themselves sorted, maybe build a decent life, keep a prayer routine, hold a job. And they think that's the finish line. It isn't. It's barely the starting point. This video is about the Circles of Influence theory, a framework my…
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My Daily Prayer Routine (24 yr old Catholic father)
MY RUMBLE CHANNEL: https://rumble.com/c/tomasmonesMY TELEGRAM: https://t.me/tomas_monesAll other socials: https://linktr.ee/tomas.monesMost men treat prayer like a tool they pick up when things get hard. They want a routine, a formula, something that works. But a prayer life that actually forms…
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The 3 Practices That Train Your Will to Choose God
Most men are losing the interior battle before the day even begins. Not because they lack discipline. Not because they don't care. But because everything around them has been engineered to gratify the will, and they have never learned to mortify it.This video is about true denial of self. Not the...
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3 Missions Every Baptized Man Was Given (Most Men Never Claim)
Most men have no idea what happened to them at their baptism.They know they were cleansed from original sin. They might know they were welcomed into the Church. But they were never told the rest of it. They were never told they were commissioned.When you were anointed with chrism, the same oil…
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How To Approach Girls (Why You Keep Getting Rejected)
Most guys think approaching girls is a skill problem. It's not. The skill falls apart because what's underneath it is rotten. Before you ever open your mouth, there's a layer of work that has to be done. Get that wrong and everything else is just performance. She'll feel it. You'll feel it. And...
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Biblical Proof of Retardmaxxing
Previous video introduction to retardmaxxing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVB_aIXMEgE&list=PLNiMDAMs3mP4hu5KJE9rnUm7h7kLLOVPk&index=6&t=426sIf the last video landed for you, this one goes further.The world has a word for the man who fasts, prays, detaches from possessions, and orders his…
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Plato's Solution to the Masculinity Crisis
Plato split men into three classes. Bronze, silver, and gold. Most men are chasing silver. Strength, success, status. And there's nothing wrong with any of that. But if that's where it ends, you get tyrants, not kings.The philosopher king is the integration of all three. A man who has mastered…
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The 10 Years That Determine Everything (Most Men Waste Them)
Most men are waiting for a clear calling before they start becoming who they need to be. They want the vocation, the mission, the direction, before they commit to the work. But that's not how it works. Capacity comes before calling. The man who waits to be ready will never be ready.This video is...
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Male Leadership (Will Save The World)
Most men today chase strength, money, and status but still feel lost. They miss the actual core of masculinity, the non-negotiable call that biology, history, and Christ Himself make crystal clear.In this raw, no-fluff breakdown I lay out what real masculine virtue looks like, why it’s never in...
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The Spiritual Warfare Rules Nobody Taught You (Saint Faustina's Diary)
Christ appeared to St. Faustina and gave her 25 rules for the spiritual life. Most peopleapproach the interior life like a self-improvement project. They improvise, they follow what feels right, they piece together a spirituality built around their own instincts. That's not how the saints did it....
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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...
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@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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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.…
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"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…
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The Real Reason Jews Rejected Christ
The most Jewish thing you can do is become Catholic. The resurrection doesn't make full sense without what came before it, and that connection is almost never explained clearly. The Tridium is not three separate events. It is one complete movement that has been building since Genesis. The…
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Real Meaning of the Last Supper | Easter Reflection
You've sat through hundreds of masses and still might not fully understand what is happening at the altar. Most Catholics know the Last Supper as the beginning of a sad story. They don't know it as the hinge point of all salvation history. This video breaks down the scriptural and theological...
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How Society Failed Gen Z (And What To Do)
Something went wrong with our generation. Not just bad luck, not just the economy, not just bad parents. There are specific, identifiable reasons why the men around us look the way they look and live the way they live, and most of them have nothing to do with individual failure.This video is a...
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I don't know when this will pay off
You can't stay consistent because you're measuring the wrong thing. You track results instead of investment, and when the numbers don't move fast enough, you lose the thread entirely. The effort is there. The intention is there. But the framework is wrong from the start. The parable of the…
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Looksmaxxing Will Send You To Hell
Looksmaxxing is everywhere right now. Young men chasing jawlines, mewing, wearing shoulder pads, hollow cheeks, makeup, all of it in the name of masculine self-improvement. But underneath the aesthetics is something older and more dangerous than a trend. It's the myth of Narcissus playing out...
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Tomas Mones-Cazon went from a skinny, screen-glued kid during Covid to competitive powerlifter, traditional Catholic, and founder of Fit for the Kingdom. A dairy farmer, theology student, husband, and father, he tackles a problem he kept seeing: men who are spiritually serious but physically weak, or physically strong but spiritually empty. Here we put it together: training the body, drawing on 2,000 years of Church tradition, and building an interior life that holds up when life gets hard. Long-form theology, training philosophy, and honest conversations. Links: https://forgevirtue.com/links
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