A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (1/12): My Framework for Doing Hard Things Well πͺ
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Mano Minute (1/12): My Framework for Doing Hard Things Well Happy Monday! Quote of the Week π¬ Reflection π The meeting. But in my experience, the hardest part is what happens before. The quiet phase. Thatβs where most outcomes are decided I think about hard things in three phases: π‘οΈ Sharpen π Show Up As Alex Hormozi puts it: By the time you show up, the work is already done. The moment becomes a reflection, not a performance. This way of thinking has helped me approach hard things with more clarity β and a lot less pressure. π₯ Watch this framework in action here β Iron & Sand | An Ironman Arizona Filmβ |
Mano Minute
A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (3/12): Why you get sore after a workout (and what it actually means) πͺ Soreness gets a bad reputation. People either chase it like a trophy or fear it like an injury. Most of the time, neither response is quite right. Here is what is happening. When you lift weights, you create tiny tears in your muscle fibers. These are called microtears. That feeling of soreness you get 24 to 48 hours after a workout? That is your body reacting to those tears. But here is the important part....
Mano Minute (3/11): Free weights vs. machines. Here is my honest take ποΈ There is a gym snobbery I want to address. A lot of people treat machines like they are for beginners. Like real lifters only use free weights. Planet Fitness gets mocked constantly because it is mostly machines. I disagree with this entirely. Machines are excellent. Not just for beginners, but for everyone. Here is why. Machines protect your form. They guide your movement through a fixed range of motion, which means you...
Mano Minute (3/10): Eating carbs without the guilt π Carbs have had a rough decade. Low carb diets. No carb diets. Keto. Everyone treating bread like it is poison. Here is my take. Carbs are not the problem. The type of carbs is the problem. There are carbs that leave you feeling guilty, foggy, and hungry an hour later. Ultra processed snacks, white bread, sugary drinks, fast food. These spike your blood sugar fast and crash it just as fast. Your body does not get much from them. And you are...