The disciplined life should taste like something.
Shaka Bros is a Chicago health-and-wellness company started by three friends who train hard and take their mornings seriously. We press ginger, apple and lemon by hand, bottle it in glass, and deliver it weekly — to the sunrise plunge, the gym floor, the start line.
Everything we make follows one rule: it has to earn a place in a routine that already works. Small, daily, and honest about what it does. Hang loose — and show up.
Ginger. Apple. Lemon.
Nothing else.
Three ingredients, pressed the morning we deliver. No concentrate, no added sugar, no preservatives — the lemon does that work. Cold, in glass, in three sizes.
One percent better, every day, compounds to thirty-seven times — not thirty-seven percent. That is the whole program. Consistency and intensity in the training, and in what you put in your body.
“The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.”
A day, with Shaka.
Wake. One shot.
Two ounces of ginger, apple and lemon, cold, before coffee. Ginger for the gut and the soreness from yesterday; lemon for the vitamin C. The smallest promise of the day, kept first.
Two to three hours out. Beetroot.
Dietary nitrate takes time to become nitric oxide. Beetroot capsules taken well before the session — better blood flow, better muscle efficiency when the work gets hard.
Twenty minutes out. Honey.
Fast carbohydrate for the heavy set, the way CrossFit athletes have used it for years — a packet before the lift, another between events on a long day.
Friday. The plunge.
The lake is cold and the coolers are full. This is where Shaka Bros started — handing shots to people who got up early to do something hard together.
Where to find us →Three friends. One rule.
Chicago-based, ocean-minded. Two of the three are on the road to Hyrox Chicago this February.
Alex
Co-founder · CEO[Bio placeholder — 60 words on Alex: background, why Shaka Bros, what he trains for, and the road to Hyrox.]
Nick
Co-founder · Brand & content[Bio placeholder — 60 words on Nick: media, content, social and marketing; the eye behind the brand.]
@nicholas.granda ↗
Matthew
Co-founder · Operations[Bio placeholder — 60 words on Matthew: operations, the weekly press-and-deliver run, and the road to Hyrox.]
@matthew.rilling ↗
Partners we train with.
Sunrise, mostly.
Fitness events, gyms, clubs and the lakefront. The coolers travel.
Every date →The first run goes to the list.
A monthly subscription, delivered weekly. Ginger, apple and lemon first — beetroot and honey next, or all three. No pricing yet. The list hears first.
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