What Training Is For

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September 20, 2026

What Training Is For

Fitness is not the goal. It is the equipment.

What Training Is For

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life 1

Nobody's life gets better because of a number on a whiteboard. It gets better because they can carry the groceries, take the stairs, get down on the floor with a grandchild and get back up.

The training is instrumental. Keep the thing it's instrumental to in view, and the hard sessions stop feeling arbitrary.

Today's challenge: Name the specific thing outside the gym you want this to make possible.

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