Training Log: 8.3.25

Learning: Podcasts:

• Attia - Peter’s Takeaways 

  • More focus on facial aesthetics and having a skin care routine. Importance is quality anti-oxidant for the face. Mineral based sunscreen, not synthetic stuff that may potentially cause harm. Avoid providers with conflicts of interest. A good medical provider has the ability to say if you’re not a good candidate. Don’t do trendy things with your body. Some fillers can cause backend harm. 

  • Biology of Aging - inflammation, mTOR, and oxidative stress matter. The current ability of biological clocks to predict anything is poor. 

  • Women’s Sexual Health - the medical industry is still behind at providing treatment for women. Something like 4% of women have access to HRT who qualify. 

  • Fertility - improve metabolic health. Men do not get enough semen analysis as a part of the work up. 

  • Death - A good death is preceded by a good life. 

• Huberman - ADHD 

  • Discussed the dopamine deficiency theory. Higher risk of self-medicating. Stimulants stimulate the dopamine pathway and can reduce symptom severity. Potential benefit of early treatment of symptoms as this is a neurodevelopment condition. 

• Knowledge Project - Ryan Peterson

  • Owns global logistics company. Used publicly available data to create searches. Questions the accuracy of large scale data. The importance of connecting with the right people to accelerate your career. 

• Spirit Gym - Michael Holt 

  • Meditation takes work and practice. Doing something for 1 min is better than nothing for establishing the habit. Being mindless takes practice and work. 

Courses

• Spirit Gym - more on developing the personal myth 

  • 3 lectures completed

Training: 

• A2S - week 5

• Overview - was a bare minimum week which was a little frustrating. Bench felt horrible Thursday and wasn’t getting power output out of the left arm. 

• Tuesday 

  • Squat - 355x10, 335x10, 315x15

  • Clean - 205x2x7 

  • Pull up - bw x5x7

• Thursday 

  • Bench: 235x10, 225x10, 215x15

  • Pull up: bw x5x7

  • DB: OHP 40x20x3

• Sat 

  • Sumo Deads: 405x10,6,4

  • OHP: 155x5 - had to shut down, no L arm drive 

• BJJ: M, W, Sun - flared up patellar tendon