framework The Hardware and Software of it As the software improves, the outcomes improve. And then, you will see a spurt in the hardware improvement.
sleep Having difficulty falling asleep? You take too long to fall asleep. You get anxious about falling asleep. You have difficulty staying asleep. If you are unable to fall asleep immediately, this is for you. And yes, falling asleep immediately is a skill you can learn and cultivate.
framework Friday Thought: The Law of Inertia It is not really laziness but when something is not yet our habit, going against the current is hard. And we give up and do something else that's easier. Which is to continue going down the path of least resistance.
coaching on Streaks and Cycles The problem is streaks are not sustainable. It is not their job to be sustainable. Their job is to shake you up, to get you out of your rut, to get you way past your comfort zone and then some.
coaching Learn from yourself Have you learned something fundamentally true about yourself from someone else? Something that you could not have come up with by steadfastly sitting with yourself and your organised thought? I seriously doubt it.
daily9 Measure the Effort it is straightforward to recognise that it is a dumbed-down tool. A tool designed to solve a problem - sift through a large number of people and rank them. Then, put them into appropriate buckets.
coaching How to Plank Hard Enough to Hold Up a Building The plank is one of the fundamental ways in which you re-train yourself to use your body the way it should be.
framework The Boring Truth But the truth of most matters has not changed in a long time. Most of the fundamentals about lifting and nutrition have been around from before I was born.
coaching Remove the option to change your mind Every time you fail, you give in to the pain becomes one more thing your log to solve for the next time. Shift your mindset, stop berating yourself about failures.
challenge Challenge yourself. But what comes after? You find something else that grows you and challenges you. Whether it is a path that forks off the main one or is tangential to it - as long as you connect with it. But one thing is clear - staying on top AND doing something else makes little sense.
challenge Don't listen to the specifics your problem is uniquely yours. Because the solution has to work for you, and cannot be generalised. Dropping out of college is generally a bad idea, except when it is not.
challenge The Goldilocks zone And then, liberally steal and copy and chop and change from whatever you see to make your own perfect concoction. Keep doing it, keep tinkering with it and make your own special brand of awesome-sauce.
coaching Above the line Coz does it matter what you squat? Not at all. There are a zillion people who can squat more and squat better. Or you go to a small enough pond, you are the best squatter. Completely irrelevant - what one squats.
framework Biohacking 101 do-it-yourself biology aimed at improving performance, health, and wellbeing through strategic interventions
coaching How hard should your workout be? Don't work yourself out all the time. Don't sit in your comfort zone all the time. Go home feeling stronger than you came in.
discussion Rocks, Pebbles, Sand 2.0 But its fundamental flaw is in fooling you that you can fit everything in. And in telling you that you should aim for that. You cannot. You should not. Fuck this hustle culture.
discussion The fun world of contradictions All diets work. None of them works. You can eat doughnuts and burgers and lose weight.
coaching What the heck is the core? What is the core? Is it a specific body part? Like the lats or biceps or whatever? Does it refer to the abs? Then why wouldn't we just say abs?!
framework How to solve the motivation issue Motivation, unfortunately, is not a tap you can turn on when you want to. Wanting something really hard and a lot is not adequate. You have to do the work. Obviously. And to do the work, you have to want to do the work.
diet What is a calorie deficit? Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed.
coaching Your fitness journey as a mass movie It does require a hero's journey to make it here. You have to conquer your demons. You have to solve your problems and solve them well. You just cannot keep running away from them and hope it will go away. And so, when you step up, you find that you can beat it.
coaching To heck with before-afters If you are not able to keep off the darned weight, if you lose all the strength you worked hard for, if you are back to square one ... what a waste!
coaching find your "me" time 9 times out of 10, you don't go to the gym. You don't do much about your nutrition. You don't get those results. You fail. You get angry with yourself or the gym. Or both. And you give up. You set yourself up for failure from the start.
daily9 My eating is out of control Know that the real issue is not your food. But something else in your life where you have relinquished control. But need to take control back.