My Training Philosophy

I've been training for a sub-20 minute 5K since early this year.

At the same time, I'm doing heavy lifts, working on the press to handstand, and preparing for a trail race in a few months.

And even though this seems like a recipe for overtraining, I've never felt better.

As long as I eat a ton and sleep well, even with 10+ hour training weeks, I feel much healthier and stronger than I ever did during my previous marathon or half Ironman training.

Most of us believe that in order to be good at something, we have to sacrifice everything else. Specialist over generalist.

But unless we're trying to be the top 1% and make it to the olympics, I don't think that's true.

We're not pros. We don't need to optimize for the perfect performance in every sport. We can spread our effort across several things and still get very good at all of them.

Running fast, lifting heavy, being flexible and doing a bunch of other random sports for fun makes the whole thing more enjoyable, without feeling like a slog and part time job.

And you end up with a much more well rounded kind of fitness that actually serves your life. You can pick up any sport easily and feel and look much better.

Or maybe I'll hit a wall at some point and crash out. We'll see.

But right now I wouldn't trade this type of training for anything.