Aug 4, 2026 · 33 min · 9 segments
-How much fitness do you really need? \-How heavy of a back squat is required for real life? \-How many pull-ups do most people need to accomplish normal tasks? \-How fast of a mile is necessary…
This topic, basically today it's like, how much fitness do you actually need for real life? And, and not to say that you'd wanna stop there, but, like, what is actually really needed? Because this was sparked by something I heard somebody the other day, because as we all know, human beings are complex creatures that are never happy, and, like- ...
they just had like some great physical achievement or like clean and jerk or like, you know, threw 225 pounds over their head, but was, you know, disappointed that it wasn't 245, which, which cool, like, I get that.
But every [laughs] now and then, maybe we pepper in [laughs] some reality of how amazing it is that you just put 100 kilos over your head, is crazy.
You know? Like, and I doubt that that clean and jerk, or even one much lower than that, has limited you in the real world, you know? So it's like those, those two worlds can coexist.
Hey, keep striving, but also like stop every now and then at what you can do, and, and you're actually probably pretty darn remarkable, you know?
I think it's a tough pill to swallow for, for some people because I don't know, I, I get the feeling that some people feel that somehow it's going to just destroy their motivation to continue if they admit to themselves, they're like, "Yeah, you know what? My physical capacity is probably what it's ever going to need to be right now."
You know what I mean? And I think it's totally possible to have the two coexist.
You can, you can be like, "Yeah, you know what? Whatever life's gonna throw at me, I feel pretty prepared, and I wanna continue to get better." Those, those...
I had it kind of how I wanted to structure this, and I've already like off-tracked and, and gone crazy.
There's, you know, whatever it happens to be, it's like the halftime show at the Super Bowl.
This topic, basically today it's like, how much fitness do you actually need for real life? And, and not to say that you'd wanna stop there, but, like, what is actually really needed? Because this was sparked by something I heard somebody the other day, because as we all know, human beings are complex creatures that are never happy, and, like- ...
they just had like some great physical achievement or like clean and jerk or like, you know, threw 225 pounds over their head, but was, you know, disappointed that it wasn't 245, which, which cool, like, I get that.
But every [laughs] now and then, maybe we pepper in [laughs] some reality of how amazing it is that you just put 100 kilos over your head, is crazy.
You know? Like, and I doubt that that clean and jerk, or even one much lower than that, has limited you in the real world, you know? So it's like those, those two worlds can coexist.
Hey, keep striving, but also like stop every now and then at what you can do, and, and you're actually probably pretty darn remarkable, you know?
I think it's a tough pill to swallow for, for some people because I don't know, I, I get the feeling that some people feel that somehow it's going to just destroy their motivation to continue if they admit to themselves, they're like, "Yeah, you know what? My physical capacity is probably what it's ever going to need to be right now."
You know what I mean? And I think it's totally possible to have the two coexist.
You can, you can be like, "Yeah, you know what? Whatever life's gonna throw at me, I feel pretty prepared, and I wanna continue to get better." Those, those...
I had it kind of how I wanted to structure this, and I've already like off-tracked and, and gone crazy.
There's, you know, whatever it happens to be, it's like the halftime show at the Super Bowl.
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