Lifestyle Design for Lifters
Your bench will only ever be as strong as the rest of your week allows. Designing a life that supports your training, not just the other way around.
Strong people don't have more discipline. They have fewer decisions to make. Their environments do the heavy lifting.
Put the kettlebell where you trip over it. Put the phone where you can't reach it. Put the protein at eye level. Stop relying on willpower it's the most expensive resource you have.
The takeaway
If there's one thing to leave with: do less than you think, more often than feels heroic, for longer than feels reasonable. That is the entire game.
"The slowest progress that lets you keep going is the fastest progress there is."
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