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09/15/2026

Try this before you scroll past.

Get down on the floor, then stand back up. Count how many times you have to touch something on the way. Hands, knees, forearms, the edge of a chair.

Most people over 40 have never counted. The number tends to surprise them.

A client of mine is 54. She has run four days a week for thirty years and never missed one. Her heart and lungs are better than most people fifteen years younger.

She still had to put a hand down to stand up.

Nothing had failed. Running had just never asked her to get off the ground. Twenty years of that, while everything else got stronger.

This week's issue is about why staying capable takes eight separate measures instead of one. Built to Endure, link in bio.

09/11/2026

If you cannot fall asleep at night, the fix probably is not at night.

Most of us try the same things. Cooler room. Darker room. Put the phone down earlier. All of that is worth doing, so keep it.

The piece most people leave out sits at the other end of the day. Your body decides when it gets sleepy based partly on when it first saw daylight that morning. Not lamp light. Not light through a window, which is far dimmer than it looks.

Two minutes on the porch with your coffee, before you open your phone. Longer if it's cloudy, because cloudy still counts and just takes more time. If you are up before the sun, go out at first light instead.

It is the cheapest thing I coach and one of the easiest to skip, because two minutes on a porch does not feel like training.

09/08/2026

Blackout curtains. A cooler room. Phone down an hour earlier.

All reasonable, and none of them reach what set the clock that morning.

Light in the first half hour after waking is what tells your body's internal clock where in the day it is. That clock decides when sleep pressure arrives at night.

Two to ten minutes outside. Longer when it's overcast, because cloud cover still beats any room in your house.

No study prescribes a duration for this one. The two-to-ten-minute range comes from what I've watched work with clients.

Full issue of Built to Endure, link in bio.

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09/04/2026

What time did you get up last Saturday? Compare it to what time you were up on Tuesday.

For most people that gap runs more than an hour. A slow Saturday morning feels like recovery, so nobody counts it against anything.

Researchers followed nearly two thousand adults, average age 69, and found that irregular sleep timing tracked with worse health outcomes even when people slept the same amount. A consistent six and a half hours beats a scattered eight.

The fix costs nothing. Pick the time you're already up on a workday and hold it Saturday and Sunday. Bedtime follows on its own.

The research and the caveats are in the latest issue of Built to Endure.

09/01/2026

Bedtime and wake time inside a 30-minute window, seven days a week. If you're up at 6 on Tuesday, you're up between 5:45 and 6:15 on Saturday.

A consistent six and a half hours beats a scattered eight. The body runs on a clock that takes its instructions from timing, not totals.
Fix the wake time first, and fix it on the weekend. Bedtime follows on its own.

Full breakdown in the latest issue of Built to Endure, link in bio.

08/28/2026

Eleven months of training. Not a single missed session. His numbers in month eleven were the same numbers he was hitting in month three.

The sessions happened. The effort was real. The weight never went up.

That's the variable that usually gets skipped. Two solid sessions a week for each of the five patterns, push, pull, hinge, squat, carry. Hardest sets stop with two or three reps still in you. Then the weight climbs.

Pick the one that hasn't moved in a month. Add weight or add a rep, one or the other. Write it down. Check it at four weeks.

The research and the caveats are in the latest issue of Built to Endure.

08/27/2026

Every gym has them. Most gyms use them as a doorstop.

Nobody reaches for two and a half pounds because it doesn't feel like anything. So the bar sits at the same weight for months while people wait to feel ready for the next five.

Ready isn't a feeling. Add the small plate, log it, check the trend at four weeks.

Full breakdown in the latest issue of Built to Endure, link in bio.

08/25/2026

Two sessions a week for each of the five patterns: push, pull, hinge, squat, carry. Two or three reps left on the hardest sets. Then more over time.

The last part is where most training stops working. Same weights for a month feels like discipline. The body treats it as a plateau.

Pick one that hasn't moved in a month. Add weight or add a rep. Write it down.

Full breakdown in the latest issue of Built to Endure, link in bio.

08/14/2026

One session a week, four minutes at a time, is the piece most training programs never include. It is the least pleasant thing on the schedule and the easiest to move to tomorrow, and tomorrow gets crowded.

I found out how much I was missing it in an empty gymnasium on a Sunday I had cleared specifically so I would do it well. Round two of four, I stopped. Years of training behind me, and none of it transferred to four minutes of near-maximum work.

The capacity it builds turns out to be one of the strongest predictors of how long people live. It only moves when you work near your limit.

Twenty-eight minutes, once a week.

Wrote it up in full in this week's issue of Built to Endure.

08/11/2026

I ran my first proper four-by-four in an empty gymnasium on a Sunday I had cleared on purpose.

Four minutes hard. Three minutes easy. Four rounds.

Round two, I stopped. Took longer than the three minutes and went again. Round three was worse.

I had not lifted that day. I picked the day specifically so I would have the best shot at it. Years of training, and four minutes took me apart.

Here is the part that matters. Being unfit carried five times the risk of dying in one of the largest looks at this. Smoking was about 1.4 times. Diabetes, about the same.

One session a week. Twenty-eight minutes start to finish.

Full breakdown in this week's issue of Built to Endure. Link in bio.

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