So You Want To Work on Skills You Suck At
Sep 10, 2026 · 42 min · 9 segments
There's a certain grace we give kids while they're learning that we completely stop giving ourselves as adults. Morgan…
Sep 10, 2026 · 42 min · 9 segments
There's a certain grace we give kids while they're learning that we completely stop giving ourselves as adults. Morgan…
Brooke HaasGuest
Jess GordonGuestHello and welcome back to
another episode of Black Iron Radio where we cut through the noise and bring you no BS advice on all things nutrition, movement, and health.
This is Morgan.
I'm your host today and I've chosen the two least skilled Black Iron coaches on the team to bring me around for this subject matter.
No, I'm just kidding.
Today, we're talking about how to work on shit that you're bad at.
You know, you've got skills that you know you're not good at.
And we want to talk a little bit about why it's important to not ignore those.
But then also, like, what are the fundamentals of trying to get better at something? And so I'm here with Brooke and Jess.
And Brooke, I knew that you were going to take more of a programming approach to this because that's your jam.
And I knew that when you popped in and you were like, well, we're going to talk about tempo.
We're going to talk about not beating a dead horse.
We're going to talk about all that kind of stuff.
I knew you were my girl for that.
And Jess, I think it makes sense that you and I are maybe a little bit more emotionally used to not being good at stuff.
Isn't that fair to
say? Oh, super fair to say, because I self-proclaimed don't do a lot of the programming bit, but I am someone who has sucked at a lot of skills in my day.
side.
We're the ones that just cry when
Yeah.
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Hello and welcome back to
another episode of Black Iron Radio where we cut through the noise and bring you no BS advice on all things nutrition, movement, and health.
This is Morgan.
I'm your host today and I've chosen the two least skilled Black Iron coaches on the team to bring me around for this subject matter.
No, I'm just kidding.
Today, we're talking about how to work on shit that you're bad at.
You know, you've got skills that you know you're not good at.
And we want to talk a little bit about why it's important to not ignore those.
But then also, like, what are the fundamentals of trying to get better at something? And so I'm here with Brooke and Jess.
And Brooke, I knew that you were going to take more of a programming approach to this because that's your jam.
And I knew that when you popped in and you were like, well, we're going to talk about tempo.
We're going to talk about not beating a dead horse.
We're going to talk about all that kind of stuff.
I knew you were my girl for that.
And Jess, I think it makes sense that you and I are maybe a little bit more emotionally used to not being good at stuff.
Isn't that fair to
say? Oh, super fair to say, because I self-proclaimed don't do a lot of the programming bit, but I am someone who has sucked at a lot of skills in my day.
side.
We're the ones that just cry when
Yeah.
