Goldman Sachs' 55-year-old MD & Instagram fitness influencer says his wife is "blown away"

efinancialcareers.com:

Graham Ambrose is a managing director in Goldman Sachs' equity franchise sales team in London. As of today, he has also come out as a fitness influencer, although he's been building up to it for a while.

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Bloomberg reported Ambrose's alter ego earlier today, but far more detail is available on Ambrose's Instagram account, including photographs of his formerly portly self and of his contemporary very muscular self bench-pressing large weights, squatting and showing off his torso. The more time that passes, the more buff that Ambrose becomes.

His Instagram account also includes snippets from Ambrose's own podcast elaborating his approach to life and exercise, in which he discusses how hard it is to eat healthily when you're flying business class, how to recover from a strain incurred while playing golf, whether to eat eggs, whether to eat raw meat, whether to immerse yourself in cold water and more.  

Alongside his day job at Goldman, the implication seems to be that Ambrose aspires 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 succinct summary of his approach before immersing yourself in them, here's what we've gleaned from his Instagram Reels...

Sleep is big

“Sleep really is a weapon” says Ambrose, quoting Matt Damon/Jason Bourne.  “Anyone in my industry I think is lacking sleep and is gonna cruise for a big problem later on in life.”

In a separate post, Ambrose says sleep is like the cloud for the mind. «I think of it like an Amazon Cloud account or your Apple cloud, where if everything stayed on your phone in your photographs then your phone wouldn't be able to