09/28/2026
Think you get better in the gym?
You don’t.
You get better recovering from that work.
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Exercise creates the stress, all the other things we do outside of our training help us recoup from that stress and therefore help facilitate progress.
We tell our clients that your most critical recovery time is sleep and what you do leading up to it is crucial.
What you do in the final handful of hours before your head hits the pillow will set you up to maximize your gains as much as you can.
Why is that important you ask?
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Well, because getting the highest quality sleep we can will allow our body to produce Human Growth Hormone and Testosterone. Two anabolic hormones that are the bread and butter of rebuilding tissues, tendons, connective tissue, etc.
Want to know a simple strategy we share with them?
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A few hours out of bed time, have your last meal. Make this meal real, whole food based (preferably cooked at home) with plenty of protein to feed your muscles, satiate you until breakfast time and keep your metabolic furnace on overnight. Eating too close to bed will force digestion which can keep up turned on vs turned off at night.
A couple hours out of bed, cut your water intake. Nothing is worse than waking throughout the night to p*e, multiple times. Ideally you’re hitting your water total by about mid-day (12-2pm) and adding electrolytes and minerals to it.
An hour out of bed time, cut the bright lights and back lit screens. Bright lights (even from a TV, phone or computer) reduce our bodies ability to produce melatonin, our sleepy hormone. We know, easier said than done, but because staying away from electronics at bed time is challenging with the society we live in today, there are plenty of remedies like red screen tints, blue light blocking glasses, amber light bulbs, etc that can be helpful to use if needed.
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This is just a piece of the education around impactful behaviors that we provide to our clients in our custom, 1-on-1 setting when they start with us.
We don’t just coach exercise because exercise alone won’t solve most problems.
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