But it works a hell of a lot better than the dopamine snacks they push to the top.
“Real training is largely a game of hitting singles.
This is why you rarely see quality training on the internet.
There is little room for repeatable, fundamentals in the algorithms.
The workout dopamine snacks you’re eating on the internet are you more harm than good.”
-Ray Zingler on X
10 Years ago, if I performed my 6-weeks of “sleds & squats” training program, which again was 1,000 yards of sled drags and 100 squats every day for 42 days, I would have started with a 106lb. KB and 4 plates on the sled.
And I would have gotten through maybe a week before my legs were shot.
But I wouldn’t have quit. That’s not in my DNA.
That 23-year-old ego would have broken the workouts up into 4 workouts a day if I had to and then simply increased my calories higher than they already were (which was already over 10k a day), taken more supplements, belted, taped, wrapped, advil’d everything I could and then forced my way through the 42 days. I’d have probably “microdosed” Jim Beam whiskey, too.
I know this about myself because I lived that life, putting myself through training programs far more grueling than Sleds & Squats.
#Health&Fitness, right?
While I am thankful for my past training experiences (literally paying for them today), I’d be an idiot not to learn from them.
While I pushed the intensity concept farther than most can fathom in my late teens and 20’s, I quickly found out that if I wasn’t going to use performance enhancing drugs, (I wasn’t) I couldn’t maintain this training lifestyle I was living.
As much as I loved it, something had to change. Not because I was wise, but because I was literally broken to the point I had no other option.
This is when I shifted my mindset from intensity to consistency.
“I know I love training, so what if instead of beating the shit out myself 3-5 days a week, I just trained 7 days a week at lower intensities?”
What a novel concept, huh!?
But it was so foreign to me at the time.
And then to take it a step further, “what if I chose exercises that gave more than they took from me?”
And that’s how I evolved.
My favorite thing in the world is effort.
I love doing hard things.
But they must be valuable, repeatable, and give more than they take.
The key to training is to start small and win.
And then repeat that concept forever.
Small wins.
Small, wins.
