Helping people understand training and using it as a metaphor to understand ourselves.
05/19/2026
Given the recent temps and the weather today and tomorrow, it seems fighting to remind us all of the benefits of heat training for working, exercising and living in hot environments.
Those first few hot days are always the worst, so drink plenty of fluids and if you’re sweating a lot, replace those lost electrolytes as well.
Stay hot and adapt!
Not just for running, but really for doing any hard thing.
We spend the vast majority of our time filling our time, this is likely the reason you are even seeing this video. You had a second picked up your phone and filled that time with scrolling.
While I’m not sure how this behavior pans out for us, what I do know is filling your brain space with music or podcasts leaves a weak point in your minds ability to cope with the discomfort of doing something hard or doing something for a long time.
Just as we need to train the muscles of our body to create meaningful force over and over again, we must also train the mind to be present, focus, and deal with the emotional ups and downs that come with doing hard things.
Next time you are working out or going for a run or bike, leave the head phones and home and see how much better (or worse) that experience is. You may have found your weakness.
05/12/2026
Metabolism. Mitochondria. Glucose. Lactate. Nuclear Breeding Reactors.
Turns out the burning feeling in your muscles doesn’t have to do with lactate after all, and it just might be the super fuel our body needs to get the most energy out of breaking down sugar.
This one gets a little nerdy, so be warned.
Do we really need to be worried about organic vs nonorganic or how much pesticides are or aren’t in our fruits and vegetables if we aren’t eating them in the first place?
Reports like EWG’s Dirty Dozen continue to confuse and complicate something that should be simple. They do not help solve the problem with the dietary habits in the Standard American Diet, yet people are drawn to them and I am making a post about it.
We need less information and more action, so go lift some weights, go for a walk or run outside, eat some protein and fruit (whether it’s in their list or not). If you do this long enough, I can’t promise you you’ll live longer, but I can promise you you’ll live better.
Classic Dynamic Effort Lower body. Work capacity, force development, training volume, all in one workout. Nothing better than getting out of breath while lifting weights!
I was always a “slow” lifter, so these days we’re very important for me to learn to move fast. Grinding through every hard lift was a solution, but it wasn’t sustainable, and these speed days helped that.
If you want to get faster, you need to move faster.
“Get comfortable being uncomfortable”
You’ve heard it before but what does it really mean?
There’s a hardline I can drawn during my race this past weekend where comfort ended and uncomfort began, but unlike the idea of pushing through, once this fatigue stabilized, it didn’t get worse or better, I just got more comfortable with it.
When we are faced with that line ourselves, often we have a choice to make between staying comfortable, or growth. I hope you make the best choice.
Carbs are performance enhancing. Maintaining proper carb intake before during and after hard or long training in the gym and on the trail is one of the best things we can do to aid in recovery and maintain day in day out performance.
Most people, especially in endurance sports, chronically under fuel during their workouts, never training their gut (or mind) to tolerate the food required for prolonged performance. You can train your stomach, like you train anything else to tolerate these foods and utilize them during your activity or choice. Don’t wait until your event to practice eating.
I personally like a balance of real chewable foods that are both sweet and savory and salty mixed with liquid carbs (not featured here) and gels (preferably homemade). Toss some water and electrolytes on top and you’re good to go!
Before your next hard training session, eat a little carby snack, something simple like a banana or sugary snack, and see how your stomach feels, but also how you feel during and after the session.
While not officially from the Mustache TV Archives, this is still worth sharing. may be single-handedly keeping my love of equipped powerlifting alive. I know he was excited about this squat, but I don’t know if he knows how excited I was about it. 700lb is no joke, especially for someone Nate’s size. The journey over the years, from zoom bedroom workouts during the pandemic, to hitting milestones in the gym, to the meets has been fulfilling in a way I had not expected since I stepped away from my own competitive aspirations.
Last weekend, at the Pro/Am, it came up several times about how fulfillment is found in your own lifting, to a point, but just as much fulfillment is found in helping someone else be the best then can be. It may be better in fact, to build someone else up to realize some unknown capacity, than it is to do that yourself. You’re just as much a part of the journey.
See you tonight for some benching Nate.
I had a lot of feelings this weekend, and I wasn’t ever even a participant of this meet, but I always felt very connected to it through
It was all the best parts of the sport of powerlifting and none of the bad.
But now it’s over, but the belief that it started and spread will never die.
You’ve got to believe is something, and if you believe enough, it will spread and if it spreads far enough for long enough, it won’t be a belief anymore, it will be truth.
14 years ago women didn’t have a place in powerlifting or strength sports at all.
Now they do because people like and Louie Simmons believed. They believed in women, and now everyone does.
So if you do anything, believe.
Thank you Laura!
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04/07/2026
Testing is a necessary part of training for performance, and in some cases, can be part of your job.
While I’m just using a military PT test as an example, this level of analysis extends to everything from a 1RM deadlift in the gym, to a Functional Threshold Power test in cycling.
The point isn’t the test, the point is the training.