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Between these two photos were setbacks, breaks, and days I almost quit. Losing weight is hard. Keeping it off while life gets busy, stressful, and messy is harder. The goal was never just losing weight. It was building a life I can actually repeat.

@YourPrimePath Funny how we use so much technology to understand ourselves better. Sleep scores. Recovery data. Heart rate. But sometimes the best reset is still the simplest: a quiet walk with your own thoughts.

Go outside today with no destination. just walk. no podcast, no music, no phone. just you and the city and your thoughts. you'll come back with something you didn't have when you left.

@runmeb My first mile was just about seeing if I could run. Years later: 5 marathons, some trail races, and many lessons from injuries and recovery. Running changed from proving how far I can go... to learning how long I can keep going.

Happy Global Running Day! It all starts with the first step and the first mile. When was your first mile? When was your latest mile? Today, let’s reflect on how far running has brought us, and let’s think about who we can introduce to running.

@Alexia__Clark I stopped judging workouts only by fitness gains. Some sessions improve your body. Some improve your mood. Some simply prove you keep promises to yourself. That matters too.

One workout won't change your body. BUT One workout CAN change your day. Sometimes that's enough.

@Art0fLife_ I used to announce big goals because it felt like commitment. But I learned the real confidence comes from stacking quiet evidence: workouts completed, miles finished, recovery improved. The result becomes the announcement.

Avoid the false dopamine hit of telling your goals to others.

@FitAndFortune We track everything now: steps, sleep, recovery, heart rate. But sometimes the simplest upgrade is still: go outside, move your body, see the sun.

Humans were built to move, see sunlight, and be outside. Not stare at screens for 12 hours a day. That’s no way to live.

@biohacker Lifestyle: move every day. Supplement: quality sleep. Peptide: consistency. After years of chasing performance, I think the basics still create the biggest changes.

You have 1 year to get someone as healthy as possible You're allowed, one lifestyle change, one supplement, one peptide What your picks

@runnersworld After 5 marathons, I realized more running is not always better running. Consistency, strength training and recovery matter more than just chasing mileage. The goal is to keep running for years.

Think marathon training requires running 5 or 6 days a week? According to running experts, you can prepare for 26.2 miles on just 3 runs per week—as long as each workout has a purpose. The key is balancing long runs, quality efforts, and recovery so you build fitness without burning out. For busy runners, it could be the training approach that finally makes a marathon feel achievable. runnersworldmag.visitlink.me/5ZYkRF

@higdonmarathon I learned this lesson the hard way. Getting injured changes your perspective. The goal is not just to reach the next finish line. It is to stay healthy enough to enjoy many more.

It's not fun to be injured, and not fun to limp back to where we once were before forced to suspend training. So, try not to get injured. RunWithHal

@Bluebirdeyessss I used to think leveling up meant adding more. More training. More goals. More pressure. Now I think it is also about removing what doesn’t help you grow.

Hit the gym. Avoid drama. Smell amazing. Make a ton of money. Level up your circle. Talk less. Pray more. Think highly of yourself.

@dantefofante I used to think discipline meant pushing harder every time. Years later, I realized real discipline is building something I can still do 10 or 20 years from now. Sustainability is underrated.

Do you know what ‘sustainable’ means? Allow me. Sustainable: Capable of being maintained or continued over time without depleting resources or causing harm. If you can’t see yourself doing it forever, if it is not sustainable, then you need to try something else. If you can’t see yourself working the job forever, find a new one. If you can’t see yourself saving that much next month, you’re stretching yourself thin. If your diet blows up on the weekend, Monday-Friday are too strict. If she annoys you now, marriage won’t fix it. In everything that you do, it needs to be sustainable. Yes, there are times to run hard, but no one can sprint forever. In everything that you do, make it sustainable. Yehhhundershtaahnd?

@ZacGoodman_ Endurance lets you go far. Strength lets you keep going. I wish I understood this earlier as a runner.

The wrong question… 🛑 “When do we stop training strength and start developing speed/power?” The right question… 🙌🏻 “How do we address all simultaneously so we never run into walls in training?” Answer: Conjugate Training

@zbitter This is why data changed the way I train. Not to replace intuition, but to understand what my body is actually doing.

Here is the truth. If we really want to understand what influences performance either positively or negatively, we will not get there by creating a study that measures something that is basically unrecognizable compared to real world performance. Here is an example. The two sub 2 hour marathon performances. Both Sawe and Kejelcha had a team of professionals studying the demands of what they were trying to do, and testing the inputs specifically for the goal of performance. They didn't need to read up on Noakes 10g/hr claims, because they had all the performance lab data they needed to know that was a dead end for the goal they were trying to reach. They let results from the actual performance demands being studied guide their program and ended up at 100+g/hr on race day, and we saw both go sub 2 hour.

@anymanfitness Morning workouts changed the way I see training. It is not only about getting stronger. It is about starting the day already keeping one promise to yourself.

Starting your day with a solid workout is the best way to set the tone. It's amazing how much easier everything becomes if you've already crushed the weights first thing off the bat.

@seezyou Running taught me this. Nobody starts with endurance. You build it one mile, one recovery, one consistent day at a time.

Nobody is skilled at the start. Nobody is unskilled after 10,000 attempts.

@higdonmarathon Injuries teach lessons that PRs never can. After going through setbacks, I learned that the goal is not just running faster. It’s being able to keep running for decades.

TIP OF THE DAY: It's not fun to be injured, and not fun to limp back to where we once were before forced to suspend training. So, try not to get injured. RunWithHal

@juleshorn01 I used to think discipline meant forcing my body to listen to my mind. Now I think real discipline is learning how to listen back.

Many people spend years trying to think their way out of something their body is still carrying.

@Alexfeinberg I feel this. In my younger days, I cared more about how far I could push. Now I care more about how long I can keep showing up.

1.75 miles @ 6:41.5/mi pace 10 years ago I smoked this pace for 2 miles, without warming up, while toning it down due to a cold But I’m 40 now And the hardest thing as a 40 year old trained athlete is to listen to discomfort signals you willed yourself to ignoring in your 20s

@w0lfangg The hardest part is not the workout. It’s sleeping early enough to make 5am training sustainable. Discipline starts the night before.

5am gym NEVER EVER gets easier don’t let these ppl lie to you

@justinskycak @exojason I learned this from running. You can’t shortcut the foundation. The boring miles, recovery days, and small habits are what compound over years.

Reminds me of @exojason's philosophy of breadth-first development: 1. Ask yourself: “If we could clone ourselves and do everything in parallel, what’s all the stuff we’d be working on?” 2. Start doing as many of those things as you can possibly juggle 3. Put up with short-term pain, everything is hard, visible progress is slow, people doubt you 4. Come out with the correct generalizations so you’re not stuck in a bad situation when the concrete sets. “If you go too far down the line and you have lots of customers using stuff, you can’t break things and go back. It’s hardened. That’s where you put the road, that’s where the road is. It’s too late to say, ‘we’re going to create a new highway through this subdivision.’” It’s hard to overstate how painful breadth-first development is in the short term. It’s a ton of work, a dozen progress bars all crawling forward in parallel. But it’s equally hard to overstate how beneficial building the correct generalizations is for the long term, instead of overfitting yourself into a straitjacket. And if you’re serious about winning the long game, you’re not going to contort your path to avoid short-term pain at the expense of long-term gain. If optimizing the long game puts you on a path through short-term hell, then so be it, you march straight through hell and remember that “when you’re going through hell, keep going.”

@juleshorn01 I learned this through training. More intensity is not always better. Sometimes the biggest performance upgrade comes from better sleep, recovery, and a calmer system.

Most people don’t need more stimulation. They need less noise. A calm nervous system can outperform a stimulated nervous system for years. Stress feels productive. Regulation is productive. There’s a difference.