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How to Be Excellent, Actually
On the inaugural episode of our rebranded podcast "excellence, actually," Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, and Clay Skipper discuss the rebrand of the s…
1 year, 1 month ago
How to Take Better Breaks: Mastering Rest & Recovery
We all know we need to take breaks to allow ourselves to rest and recover, both physically and cognitively. But it can be especially hard to do when …
1 year, 1 month ago
How to Know When to Grit vs. When to Quit
How do you know when to persevere through a rough patch—and when to give up entirely? And if you do decide to push through, what are the most effecti…
1 year, 2 months ago
9 Important Life Lessons We've Learned from Exercise
Exercise isn't just a way to better yourself physically. In fact, through our years of running, competing, and working out, we've found some of exerc…
1 year, 2 months ago
120 - A 66-Year-Old Powerlifter with 71 World Records on the Secrets to Long-Term Success (with David Ricks)
David Ricks first competed in a powerlifting competition in 1981, when he was 21 years old. At 66, he is still competing. Along the way, he's won 13 …
1 year, 2 months ago
119 - How to Turn Your Inner Critic Into a Coach
By some estimates, the voice in your head can spew up to 4000 words per minute, making it all the more important that we learn how to live with it. T…
1 year, 2 months ago
118 - How to Build Discipline
Why are some people disciplined and others aren’t? It’s not because of an innate character trait, but because disciplined people have simply trained …
1 year, 2 months ago
117 - The Masculinity Crisis, and Why It Matters for All of Us (Part 2)
This is the second of two episodes we're devoting to the topic of masculinity. Last week, in part one, we spoke with Richard Reeves about how changin…
1 year, 3 months ago
116 - The Masculinity Crisis, and Why It Matters for All of Us (Part 1)
Over the next two weeks, we're going to be exploring the topic of masculinity—more specifically, how changing ideas of what it means to be a man have…
1 year, 3 months ago
115 - Mailbag: Daily Health Checklist, Rut vs. Burnout, & Taking Good Breaks
You've got questions, we've got answers. Today, we dive into listener emails and voicemails to answer some of your questions.
1) Can you give me a min…
1 year, 3 months ago