October 16, 2026
Your Coach Isn't Impressed by Pain
Suffering is not a training variable.
Your Coach Isn't Impressed by Pain
It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the man who craves more.
— Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 2
There is a version of training that measures success by how wrecked you feel. It is popular, it produces stories, and it does not produce much fitness.
The goal is a stimulus large enough to force adaptation and small enough to recover from. That's it. Anything past that is just damage with good branding.
Today's challenge: End today's session when the work is done rather than when you're destroyed.