Quick one tonight because the AMA audio series dies at midnight, but you can still hop in https://miket.me/physflex <--full details And before it dies, I need to tell you about the metabolic basement. Most people walk around using two fuels: Glucose and fat. That’s enough to keep the lights on. Enough to get through a normal day, to fake competence, and to survive mediocre training and decent sleep and a life that hasn’t started swinging a bat yet. But downstairs? There are two more systems...
about 12 hours ago • 3 min read
Lactic acid didn’t do it. Your buffering system got mugged. There’s a certain kind of coach I’ve met a thousand times. Good intentions. Solid heart of 14 karat gold. Probably owns at least 3 overpriced recovery gadget and still says “lactic acid” like it’s 1997 and we’re all wearing Zubaz pants in a Gold’s Gym parking lot with his gallon of distilled water. ...but then his athletes starts dying halfway through a brutal set of intervals, and they spit out the same line that’s been passed...
1 day ago • 4 min read
What up you savage? I wanted to take a slight round-a-bout from our technical breakdown to answer a bunch of questions that came in about the Phys Flex Cert… ..and to remind you that the Fast Action Bonus of your 1 hour private call (a legit $250 value) with your truly nerdy here closes tonight, Wed April 22 at midnight PST. Story time as just today a coach named Chris emailed me some solid questions. Then another coach emailed me. Then another one. By the third round, I realized I was...
2 days ago • 7 min read
The fitness internet has the attention span of a caffeinated squirrel with a crypto account full of DOGE coin. A study drops with a huge number and some IG GooRoo between ab shotz and posing in front of his rented fancy car rips that number out of context, sprays it across social media like cheap cologne in a strip mall bathroom, and suddenly every shirtless man with a ring light is telling you the sauna is basically anabolic sorcery. Then the supplement companies arrive followed fast by the...
3 days ago • 6 min read
Aaaah, my buddy Joe Rogan. I will get hate for this but overall I love Joe and his show most of the time… …however, the practice of going ballZ deep at 33F in the ice bath as a recommendation to start is bonkers. This has also spun off a whole slew of “Cold Water BroZ” via the cult of Joe with their own epic posting about their love of cold water immersion after lifting ‘cuz "recovery, bro." Can doing cold water immersion (CWI) immediately after lifting stall your gainZ? Here's what's...
3 days ago • 6 min read
Newsflash Brosefus, your body does not want to add more muscle, run faster, and get leaner all by itself. This is not a motivational failure nor a mindset problem where you just need to biohack your way out or keep trying harder. This is physiology at its most fundamental as your body is designed to survive above everything. A massive part of this survival mechanism is homeostasis, your body's insane, around-the-clock commitment to holding its internal environment constant no matter what you...
4 days ago • 4 min read
Somewhere between the bottom of my triple espresso and the third set of 30-second Wingates, my lungs started doing their best Bill Lumbergh impression. "I'm gonna need you to go ahead and breathe less terribly on Saturday." That's when it hit me that I've been watching something deeply strange happen in fitness coaching for the last two decades…. The programming knowledge, the research literacy, the content quality, the nutritional sophistication — genuinely excellent compared to what existed...
4 days ago • 4 min read
Another sunny, semi-windy day here in South Padre, where your favorite nerd was back out playing in the wind again. The best part? Even after getting my lifting and rowing done, I still had plenty of energy left to go kiteboarding. Wahoo. A big piece of that is just doing the basics with violent consistency, as you know. But the other part comes from the four pillars I teach in the Physiologic Flexibility Certification, which opens again this coming Monday: Temperature pH Expanded fuels...
9 days ago • 1 min read
Quick one before I head out to the water — wind is up and the kite is calling my name. Last Thursday I told you about the nootropic I accidentally took too many servings of at once. Ooops. Unlabeled sample bottle, assumed one serving, was emphatically not one serving, had one of the cleanest deep work sessions of my adult life and reported back to Tomer at Switch like a completely unrepentant human guinea pig. Since then, over 75% of the initial batch is already pre-ordered. Tomorrow the...
10 days ago • 1 min read