#2238 - October 8, 2026

I was at the gym with my son, Bo, the other day, and I saw a fella doing the most unusual workout I've ever seen before.

Now, I've been going to the gym regularly for, I don't know, 10, 15 years, and you see, you know, occasionally some strange behavior.

This one took the cake, though.

So the gym we work out at has a track, and Bo and I were on the track, and we looked behind us, And there's a guy running on the track, but he's holding two Stanley water bottles in one hand, like the big mugs with the handles, kind of like a shield.

And then the other hand, he has that bar that people use for stretching or balance.

And he's using that as a spear and he's running into battle.

And other people in the gym were looking like, what the hell is going on here? And he did a lap of the track and then came around again.

And the next time he wasn't running, he was like doing thrusts and parries.

So thrust with the spear, parry with the shield.

Like he was full on training for like a. ancient Spartan battle.

And it got more unusual still.

Already, I'd never seen anything like this before.

And then he was over on like the...

There's like box jump platforms where you can like jump up and...

but he was jumping off of them high as he could and using the spear to like skewer something on the ground and doing that again and again.

So I don't know if he was like training for a reenactment or like LARPing or if he is in fact an ancient Spartan warrior.

The funny thing too was that like he was really athletic.

Like he was, he was very good at this workout and, So I don't know what the workout is for, but I know that I wouldn't want to cross him on the field of battle.

I

have an idea for a new health trend, and I think that we could launch this.

I haven't figured out quite how to monetize it yet, but there's something there, and I think you'll agree.

So we have one of those, like... patio swings in our backyard that like can lay down into a bed and stuff and it's in the summer when it's nice out occasionally I'll lay down there and end up drifting off in the afternoon having a little bit of an outdoor nap which is just lovely you know hear the birds chirping the wind blowing a little great way to nap but I was having one of these outdoor naps this week because it's been so nice and I was thinking what would stop me from being out here as the temperature drops you know like On a day when it's zero degrees or slightly before, if you're dressed for it, if you've got a big blanket, you could still be out there outdoor napping.

In fact, I think in Nordic countries, mothers will place their babies outside for their naps.

They'll obviously bundle them up quite tightly, but they'll put them in their stroller, their pram, and put them outside for their nap.

And, you know, culturally, I think some of these countries swear by the idea that it's healthier for the babies, they sleep better.

I was at the gym with my son, Bo, the other day, and I saw a fella doing the most unusual workout I've ever seen before.

Now, I've been going to the gym regularly for, I don't know, 10, 15 years, and you see, you know, occasionally some strange behavior.

This one took the cake, though.

So the gym we work out at has a track, and Bo and I were on the track, and we looked behind us, And there's a guy running on the track, but he's holding two Stanley water bottles in one hand, like the big mugs with the handles, kind of like a shield.

And then the other hand, he has that bar that people use for stretching or balance.

And he's using that as a spear and he's running into battle.

And other people in the gym were looking like, what the hell is going on here? And he did a lap of the track and then came around again.

And the next time he wasn't running, he was like doing thrusts and parries.

So thrust with the spear, parry with the shield.

Like he was full on training for like a. ancient Spartan battle.

And it got more unusual still.

Already, I'd never seen anything like this before.

And then he was over on like the...

There's like box jump platforms where you can like jump up and...

but he was jumping off of them high as he could and using the spear to like skewer something on the ground and doing that again and again.

So I don't know if he was like training for a reenactment or like LARPing or if he is in fact an ancient Spartan warrior.

The funny thing too was that like he was really athletic.

Like he was, he was very good at this workout and, So I don't know what the workout is for, but I know that I wouldn't want to cross him on the field of battle.

I

have an idea for a new health trend, and I think that we could launch this.

I haven't figured out quite how to monetize it yet, but there's something there, and I think you'll agree.

So we have one of those, like... patio swings in our backyard that like can lay down into a bed and stuff and it's in the summer when it's nice out occasionally I'll lay down there and end up drifting off in the afternoon having a little bit of an outdoor nap which is just lovely you know hear the birds chirping the wind blowing a little great way to nap but I was having one of these outdoor naps this week because it's been so nice and I was thinking what would stop me from being out here as the temperature drops you know like On a day when it's zero degrees or slightly before, if you're dressed for it, if you've got a big blanket, you could still be out there outdoor napping.

In fact, I think in Nordic countries, mothers will place their babies outside for their naps.

They'll obviously bundle them up quite tightly, but they'll put them in their stroller, their pram, and put them outside for their nap.

And, you know, culturally, I think some of these countries swear by the idea that it's healthier for the babies, they sleep better.