October Thoughts - 2025
More and more we are accustomed to striving for more, combining training methodologies, pursuing opposing goals - strength and cardio - for example, and never really taking a break.
Especially here in Bali it is on trend to work all day, train physically at a high level, maintain an active social life, and excel in every category. What I’ve noticed here is that more people than ever have digestion and recovery problems. Friends my age come to me asking about testosterone and BPC 157 injections for recovery, when it would make so much more sense to actually take rest days from training, prioritize mobility, and go to bed earlier at night.
The impact of this spread out focus, non-stop pushing, and high stress expectation for excellence, reminds me very much of 10 years ago when I was coaching and training CrossFit. While the overtraining effects of CrossFit were much more obvious and acute, the results are no different.
Poor recovery, constant exhaustion, digestion problems, hormone dysfunction, and the list goes on.
As an entrepreneur myself, I understand these issues all too well. I’ve put myself through the ringer as an athlete in the past, and then as a business owner who refused to let go of training hours and hours each day and paid the price.
Recently I did the opposite in a conscious and specific way. I wanted to achieve the front lever after literal years attempting to add it to my training without success. The difference this time? I replaced other training with the FL instead of adding it on top. The result was finally achieving this elusive skill in roughly 6 months.
As little as we like to admit it and as much as suffer-fluencers glorify the daily grind, there is a limit to how much we can do in a day and expect to come back consistently enough to actually make progress in any arena.
My advice to the world is to chill the fuck out. Work on goals that support each other. Rather than training five strength exercises, train two. Rather than training competing modalities - strength and cardio - build up one over a period of years, then train the other. Take your training and life in stages and really commit to doing something singularly well.
Of course we can do more than one thing at a time. Inevitably life is going to require this of us where we like it, or not. Just don’t intentionally take on multiple high level goals all at once, lose sleep, disconnect from relationships, rely on supplements, and ignore all the signs screaming at you to slow down and give yourself a break.