WellBuiltStyle

The actual secret to greatness: Pick your thing. Pick a good system for your thing. Surround yourself with people who support you doing your thing. Do your thing for a decade.

Serious question. What’s THE single best supplement someone should take at the expense of everything else? A “we should probably put this in the drinking water” supplement. I’d have to say it’s probably omega-3? Don’t say creatine. It’s not creatine.

Just got done playing in a Pickleball tournament with three of my kids! Oldest and youngest were paired up, and me and the middle child were paired up. What a blast! Treasure it when they’re little, but it’s pretty awesome when they’re older too! Honestly, I feel like I didn’t do nearly a good enough job of being active and doing stuff with my kids when they were younger, but thankfully I seem to have gotten a second chance and I’ve really been able to do a ton more of climbing mountains (we live near Glacier national Park) playing tennis, Pickleball, and floating rivers with them now that they’re older.

Grown adults should not put a bar on their back. Horrific risk reward ratio. Grow up!

heavy deadlift is probably the worst exercise for a non athlete man in terms of risk and reward the risk is literally breaking your back for life against the reward of posting your videos on instagram circle

I wrote my first article today. What a fucking waste of time that was. Yes, I got to write long form and really detail my thoughts. No, nobody will ever see it because: A) The algo never promotes articles regularly on the For You tab. B) Your followers don't count so nobody who follows you will know you wrote one. C) Articles ARE NOT THE POINT OF X. X is about fast, micro blogging updates on realtime events. Nobody comes here for the articles. (insert old Playboy mag joke here).

Life advice nobody told you: Violent consistency is the only path to achieve what you want. It's not going to be pretty. It's not going to draw oohs and aahs from the crowd. Because it looks messy in the days. It's getting out of bed when you don't want to. It's sitting down at your desk when you're tired. It's pounding your head into a wall one more time. It's ugly. It's unimpressive. But it works. Quantity is a necessary precursor to quality. You cannot create once and hope for it to be perfect. You have to create a lot. Every single day. I recently came across a story in Art & Fear that I love: A ceramics teacher split a class into two groups. One would be graded on the quantity of their output, the other would be graded on the quality of their output. On the final day, the first group would have their total output of pots weighed, while the second group would have one pot judged. When grading day arrived, something fascinating happened: "The works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the 'quantity' group was busily churning out piles of work—and learning from their mistakes—the 'quality' group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay." Quality is a byproduct of quantity. Violent consistency. That's the real recipe.

Tip for novice runners: You don't need a gel/gatorade for your 5k or 10k race. It's doing nothing except maybe giving you GI issues. Energy intake isn't a limiter until we get close to ~2hr of racing For ~60-90min, it can help via modulating perception of effort, but not necessary