There are many ways not to get stronger.
A modern coach's job is to invent new ones every day.
True artists go even further and select only the most useless exercises.
Desk: 90°. Car: 90°. Couch: 90°. Your knees are stuck — and that’s how the pain starts.
Knees are hinges built for a full arc but range you don’t use is range you lose.
This move re-feeds the deep bend, one knee at a time:
→ Control the depth per side
→ Keep the tissue long and supple
→ Move the joint’s lubricant through full range
Long-term knee insurance. 🦵
A movement golfers worry way too much about is Early Extension
It's a movement most golfers want to get rid of, but aren't aware that the Early Extension they have currently is helping them, not hurting them
The most common reason you early extend is:
1. Face open at the top of your swing
2. Steep shaft in transition (early downswing)
If you DIDN'T early extend & you actually kept your butt back & rotated like you are trying too, you'd be even STEEPER than you are (which would make you hit it worse)
So, you're brain think "Oh crap, I need to stand up & thrust pelvis in order to shallow it" & that's actually what helps you to hit the ball in a somewhat functional way
Stop obsessing about the early extension you have & start attempting to fix the reason WHY it's happening. Your body will then likely react to the better movements you make in the backswing & downswing & not extend as much 🙂
Best #VO2max workout?
Set the alarm on your heart rate monitor to ping at you any time you go above 70% max HR.
Go out & do any large muscle activity for an hour - bike, hike, jog, XC ski, swim, whatever.
If the alarm pings...
Slow down!
The flat feet chain reaction: it's four parts and it's ruining your biomechanics and your posture slowly over time, but you can fix it!
Pay attention ✅
Snapchat memories be like: 2 years ago you were in love and on a beach with the girl you thought you would marry. 1 year ago you were doing blow in some random guys apartment and trying to hookup with some fat chick
Just a glimpse of the 85 million pounds of former frozen food rotting in the former cold storage warehouse in Los Angeles.
How many trucks is it going to take to remove it all and where the heck are they gonna put it?
This disaster is far from over.
How to figure out what to do with your life: my 10 favourite journaling prompts.
1. What would you do if money were no object? Follow-up: if you had all the time and money in the world, how would you use your talents to serve other people?
2. What would you want people to say at your funeral? To what extent are your actions aligned with that?
3. If I repeated everything I did this week for the next 10 years, where would I end up?
4. What have I done in the last two weeks that gave me energy, and what drained it? (tip: colour-code your calendar if that's easier).
5. The Wheel of Life: across work (mission, money, growth), health (body, mind, heart) and relationships (family, friends, romantic), how aligned are my current actions with the future I actually want?
6. The Odyssey Plan: what does my life look like 5 years from now if I (a) stay on my current path, (b) take a completely different one, or (c) take a path where I don't care about money or what people think?
7. What's the goal? What's *really* the goal? What's the bottleneck to achieving it?
8. Write 10 goals for the year in the present tense ("I earn", "I weigh", "I run"). Then circle the one that, if it magically happened tomorrow, would have the biggest positive impact on all the others. That's your core focus.
9. Do you work for your business, or does your business work for you?
10. If I knew I was going to die 2 years from now, how would I spend my time? What about 5 years? 10? 20? 50? 100? What should I change about how I'm currently spending my time based on that?
A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.
If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:
1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.
One of the most consistent findings in my clinical work over 20 years.
The people who look and feel the best in their 60s and 70s almost always have one thing in common. They never stopped lifting weights.
Muscle mass is the strongest physical predictor of longevity we have. Build it now. You are laying groundwork your future self will live inside. ✅
High cortisol cuts your lifespan by 7 years, shrinks your brain & packs on belly fat (plus 15 more effects)
Here are 9 hacks to lower it, backed by studies (THREAD):
1. Sauna (158-194°F)
The most socially acceptable way to destroy your life:
Overthink everything.
Act on nothing.
Your mind calls it “figuring things out.”
Here are Eckhart Tolle’s 7 steps to break the loop: 👇
1. Recognize that there’s a voice in your head that never shuts up.
💥NEW: Caller: “A lot of people think Donald Trump is kind of low IQ and stupid. As a matter of fact, his former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called him an effing moron!”
Stephen A. Smith: “I used to talk to him for years before he was ever running for president. Folks didn’t call him stupid then. When he was on Oprah Winfrey show and he was friends with Whoopi Goldberg and others, people weren’t calling him dumb then.”
“A matter of fact, people was asking him if he would ever run for office because they thought he was smart and they thought he was bright. Because in all likelihood, he probably was.”
the guy who makes shit happen, invites people, talks to strangers like old friends, takes risks, grins through chaos because he knows it works out either way. he's not smarter than you. he just acts instead of overthinking. that's it. that's the whole secret everyone's looking for.