books Five Books that I Love A powerful lesson from the Stoics, for example, is to control the controllable. We lose our shit all the time by trying/wanting to control something that is out of our control.
framework Listening to your Body When you are angry, your body feels a different way. You feel the rage heat up inside you and it pours out of you as expletives at the jackass who cut you off on the road. Every emotion, every feeling, every thought, every arising has a longer tail.
activity A Workout Routine for Beginners Unsure how or where to start your fitness routine, or get it back on track. Here's a "sensible and boring" routine that will inevitably prove to be a shortcut for you.
diet Why carbs are NOT the enemy but you still need to eat less of them What's the deal with demonising carbs? This is the article that explains why that's flawed and what the real issues are
discussion Zooming out and a sense of time One limitation in our progress is our handicap of looking at time. Using one hundred years as a lifetime, we tend to focus on short durations. The disruptions we are producing i.e. the variables in the system we are affecting are unbeknownst to us.
crossfit What's the key factor in crafting a new habit? You stop doing something when it no longer works for you. And that's necessary. It was a tool that did a job. Now, you move on to a different tool.
ArvTraining 3 months of the Indian Clubs and how that has helped my KB work I've been practicing them for about 3-4 months only. But I am an expert in kettlebells and in movement. During these few months of practice, I realised the complementary nature of the club to my kettlebell practice.
coaching Goal Setting and Milestones to Guide your Physical Training Strength is the foundation of everything. Whatever your sport/activity of choice is, getting StrongEnough will help you excel in it. Whether it is long-distance running or playing a racquet sport or practicing a martial art - the stronger you are, the more you can do.
framework Do First, Understand Later. The lesser room one gives for their ego, the easier things are. Do first. Understand later. Asking questions is mandatory. But do first. Until you know better questions to ask.
dont quit The Most Important Thing Don't forget the power of compounding. Warren Buffet made 95% of his wealth in the last 15 or so years.
coaching Against the Current You need to start swimming against the current. You need to arm yourself for that swim by curating the barrage of information and snake oil around you.
ArvTraining Should you work out indoors or outdoors? It's not for everyone but for those of us who enjoy getting out, who will take the pebble along with the smooth path, the grime and grind.
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 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.
diet Why That Person's Miracle Diet Didn't Work for You You are looking for something. You want social proof. The objective thinker, the "Show me the facts" person in you might not fall for it. But we all have moments of weakness and send that fellow away to the back room.
dont quit The Time Delay in Your Body and Why it is Useful It takes a while to build momentum. And it takes a few days for results to show.And sometimes, it won't show for a couple of weeks too.
dont quit Fear of the Start You are worried if you are gonna make a fool out of yourself. You are concerned that you might get hurt. You are unsure if what you are doing is good for you. You are a bit embarrassed at your current level of fitness and don't want to be judged.
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.
ArvTraining barefoot running in winter Most of my initial learnings were from watching my body, and occasionally from doing idiotic things. But just by listening to my body, and shutting my brain (which knew nothing about fitness) I was able to navigate.
framework Biohacking 101 do-it-yourself biology aimed at improving performance, health, and wellbeing through strategic interventions
discussion The fun world of contradictions All diets work. None of them works. You can eat doughnuts and burgers and lose weight.
coaching The Core, Part 2: Breathing and Bracing A fundamental concept of strength training, explained with metaphors of car tyres and candles. Your output at your gym will go to the next level with this article.
dont quit Calluses and bicycle seats When you start something new, it is difficult. It chafes. It hurts. It is mighty uncomfortable. But as long as you persist sensibly i.e. finding the challenging point where your skill meets its sticking point, you will get rather good at it. You will adapt to it.
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?!
coaching scales and beats and rolling and crawling You keep repeating the same thing and you do it marginally better. You flop around. You try to roll and fail. You try to hit a scale and hit 3. You get better. But it is not consistent.
