This week we have a slightly different kind of episode. We talk less about the mechanics of training and more about the benefits of using your fitness out in the world, specifically outdoors. We talk about environment, how the right gym or the mountains can pull effort out of you when your own motivation is low.

The back half of the episode revisits the Misogi Challenge and the value of planning something with a real chance of failure, why hard physical challenges reframe everyday life, and how the pursuit of hard things changes from your twenties to thirties and forties. It closes on the big one, using your fitness to buy a longer and more capable lifespan, why your 30s are when the trajectory of your actions starts to show, and why 56 does not look so old looking forward from 44.

Covered in this episode

  • Pushing a session to a day you can actually give it a better effort
  • How environment, the right gym or the mountains, pulls effort out of you
  • The carryover that lets you hike well even at a heavier body weight
  • Awe as a real mechanism, and why noticing is the key word
  • Dacher Keltner's book on the science of everyday wonder
  • Keeping the mountains from ever becoming just another Wednesday
  • Revisiting the misogi and planning something with a real chance of failure
  • Why hard physical challenges reframe everyday life as manageable
  • How the pursuit of hard things changes from 24 to 34 to 44
  • Using your fitness for a longer, more capable lifespan
  • Why your 30s are when the trajectory of your actions starts to show
  • Mountains versus the ocean, and the wildlife you only see out there

Timestamps

00:00:00 - Intro
00:05:00 - You don't have to train every day to keep your fitness
00:09:30 - Environment and how the right gym pulls effort out of you
00:13:30 - The benefits of using your fitness outdoors
00:16:30 - Awe as a mechanism, and Keltner's science of wonder
00:20:00 - Revisiting the misogi and planning something hard
00:24:30 - Doing hard things, and how that pursuit changes with age
00:32:00 - Using your fitness for a longer, more capable lifespan

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