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Eureka Engine by FreeGym - Coming Soon We ended up building something to coach ourselves because... we simply couldn't keep up with our own health while developing the platform, coaching clients, staying at the bleeding edge of AI, creating content, and staying current on health, fitness, and medical research. Not anymore. And I have a feeling that what started as a solution for us will eventually help people all over the world take better care of their health. Health and fitness are about to be democratized by real practitioners. @mutant1879 @thestrongdoc

Switched my training to the morning. Not because AM workouts are magically better, but because my sleep quality and routine needed more structure. I realized I was taking the convenience of a home gym for granted. Being flexible with evening training slowly started to eat into my wind-down time, and my nervous system just wasn’t getting the clean signal to shift out of work and training mode. Once the basics are in place, like sleep, nutrition, protein, steps, and strength training, the next layer is adjusting your routine so those basics are easier to repeat lifelong. For me right now, that means training earlier, protecting my evenings, and giving my body a better shot at recovery. Not chasing hacks. Just trying to optimise every small thing I can to move my health in a better direction.

If you’re trying to learn nutrition science, you need to read all the FreeGym articles in the nutrition category. The level of rigor you’ll find on FreeGym is unmatched anywhere else on the internet. We’ve covered protein, carbohydrates, fats, and fiber. The next batch of articles will focus on Vitamin D - 12 articles in total. Read at least one article to understand the quality we’re delivering. It’s unprecedented.

Here’s a thread of screenshots from every time I’ve said this on X - at least.

In academia, I was naturally inclined toward physics, computer science, and math. But because I was a competitive athlete with the ambition to become as complete an athlete as possible, I ended up learning sports science, which introduced me to the world of biology, chemistry, and the human body. Over time, the blend of my natural inclination and formal training has shaped how I think and build. I must say that my pursuit of becoming a complete athlete has played out well academically and as a health innovator. I got to learn a lot. When we launch the Eureka Engine, you’ll see how far ahead we are of foundation models and any other startup in health and fitness. We’re not taking shortcuts. The rigor we put in puts us miles ahead of second place. Also, we’ve shipped 12 new articles on fiber and gut health in the nutrition category. Check them out.

Any lift can look textbook on camera and still be hurting the lifter. Ananth's hip thrust did. He hadn't brought it up himself. We asked how his back felt during the lift, and he told us he'd been getting low back pain through every working set. His setup told us why. The bench was too tall, pushing him into lumbar extension at the top instead of a clean hip lockout. We swapped him to an aerobic step box. What you're watching is him on the new setup. No back pain. Glutes doing the work. Every rep gets watched. Every setup gets questioned. Problems you'd been quietly training around start disappearing once someone is paying real attention. Train with us and see what real coaching actually looks like. Link in bio.

A lot of times, people who are interested in coaching message me saying, "Can we get on a quick call? I just want to understand a few things." And I understand where that comes from. But honestly, I don’t do quick calls for coaching enquiries anymore because they are never actually quick calls. If someone is seriously considering coaching, I need to understand their current lifestyle, routine, food habits, struggles, past history, medical status, relationship with training, current mindset, and goals. Only after that can I discuss what strategy would actually make sense for them. That is not a 10-minute casual conversation. That is a proper consultation. And the consultation itself is a very important part of the coaching process. In fact, it is the first step. There is a reason why it is paid. I know this may feel confusing, and sometimes even offensive, especially to old clients who came to me years ago when things were different. At that time, I was working with a company and free calls were part of that company’s process and policy. But that is not how I work anymore. Now, if you book a consultation with me, you are not just paying to 'talk'. You are paying for my time, attention, assessment, and thinking. After the call, I also send a detailed health audit based on everything we discuss. So even if you don’t enroll in coaching after that, you will still leave with far more clarity and direction than you had before. As far as understanding my coaching process, philosophy, and approach is concerned, most of it is already available on my website and profile. If you have been following me for a while, you already know how I think and what kind of work I do. So I don’t think there is anything 'special' that needs to be explained separately on a quick call. A consultation is not a formality. It is where the work begins.

Most people think recomp means: Lose fat. Build muscle. Look better. But you can chase all three and still end up weaker, more tired, hungrier, and easier to injure. You know why? Because most people start in the wrong place. Thread🧵

Wearable brands will never admit that their devices generate random data and then imagine proudly building AI on top of that data!

FreeGym is live on Android. Link: play.google.com/store/apps/det… We’re building a health and fitness platform for people who are tired of shallow advice, viral misinformation, and generic AI answers. FreeGym is for rigorous information, serious conversations, personalized learning, and community-driven growth. Eureka, our AI, is built with the same philosophy: scientific depth, careful reasoning, exceptional emotional intelligence, and the ability to teach, guide, and support people with nuance. Download.

Not detox teas. Not ACV. Not even milk thistle. Just a simple black coffee. The most scientifically robust, proven way to protect your liver. Morning. Let's build.

One of the best exercises to help lower blood pressure? Going to be a weird one. In 2023, researchers looked back through 30 years of exercise and blood pressure studies. 270 randomized trials. Around 16,000 people. They wanted to know which types of training had the biggest effect on resting blood pressure. One that stood out was isometric exercise. That’s the kind where you hold a position and nothing really moves. Wall sits were one of the best-performing options, especially for lowering systolic blood pressure. The common protocol used in the studies was: 4 rounds of 2-minute holds
2 minutes rest between rounds
3 days per week In real life, 2 minutes is brutal if you haven’t trained this before. Most people tap out around 30 to 45 seconds. That’s fine. Start with what you can hold today. If it’s 20 seconds, do 20. Rest. Go again 4 times. Add a few seconds over time and build from there. The part that matters most is showing up consistently, about three sessions a week. One caveat: don’t hold your breath or strain through it. Keep breathing normally. The goal is controlled tension, not turning red and trying to survive the wall. And they won’t replace medication, nutrition, sleep, or walking. But as a simple add-on for blood pressure? They’re a lot more powerful than they look.

FreeGym-Wiki >>>> Examine and Wikipedia combined on epistemic rigor and methodological transparency. We don't have their volume yet because it's new. We will. FreeGym-Wiki is open and free for everyone, but only a few are learning faster than everyone else. High values and high effort are the greatest filters of them all in the long run. Performative behavior fades. The worker just keeps working. It's why the gym is full in January and empty in March. Why the founders who do podcast circuits underperform the ones who shut up and ship. Why the academic who chases h-index loses to the one who quietly moves the field. I have high hopes for @AnshulGains and @MANSAFAB. They are learning faster than everyone else, and they are so young. I wonder where they will be in the next 5-10 years if they keep learning at this rate. We're shipping 12 articles on fiber and gut health this Sunday.

The very first version of Eureka’s physiotherapist mode was already better than this. Disappointed!

This is the outcome I like seeing most after a coaching program ends. Not because every client automatically gets here. They don’t. It’s not just about good programming. It’s how actively someone participates in the process while they’re being coached. If they communicate, ask questions, understand the ‘why’, practice the basics, and slowly stop needing everything spoon-fed, the habits have a much better chance of surviving after the program ends. Her recovery markers improved from her own baseline while life was chaotic, and the basics still held: eating properly, protein, sleep, movement. HRV up. Weight down. Feeling good. That’s what we try to build through coaching. Not dependence. Not perfection. Not a coach chasing you forever. The goal is to build enough structure, accountability, and understanding that when life gets messy, you still know what to come back to.

A biomarker’s association with a disease or outcome does not tell us its role. It may be a cause, a contributor, a consequence, or just a bystander. That is why biomarker studies need careful framing: predictive value, diagnostic value, and causal relevance are different claims. Stop pouring biomarkers into AI and asking, “What’s wrong?” There is an art and a science to it.

You need five qualities in your co-founders: 1. super smart 2. outrageously ambitious and courageous 3. hard work is the default mode 4. can be trusted blindly 5. natural leaders This is where I got lucky with @thestrongdoc and @tanmaywizard. Tanmay is only 17, btw.

The neuroscience of human memory was super useful in designing Eureka’s memory system.

Reminder. You can look great in the mirror and still be carrying significant metabolic risk below the surface. Stop using your weight as the ultimate metric for your health. Get your blood work done.

Everyone claiming to build personalized AI is building at the periphery, mostly around productivity and similar areas. It’s the easy part. What we are building is the core. Human health, in its entirety, is the hardest form of personalized AI because it requires deep domain expertise with both breadth and depth, covering every aspect of human health and fitness. After the success of the AI system, we will 100% dive into building the device, because we are building the core of personalized AI. The periphery is relatively easy.

Just hangmaxxing on the rope. Being able to move your body is a privilege… and a stupidly fun one.