Lounge Isn’t Food: Travel Fitness Field Notes
This week was a test of systems: Zone 2 under travel stress, lounge temptations, transit failures, and one costly timing mistake. The win wasn’t perfection—it was recovery: ste
GLP-1 Muscle Loss: How to Protect Lean Mass During Weight Loss
GLP-1 medications can reduce appetite and drive meaningful weight loss, but they do not automatically protect lean mass, strength, digestion, or long-term habits. Here is the WbMT
The Autonomic Economy
High performers rarely fail because they lack capacity. They falter because they misinterpret state. The Autonomic Economy explains how sleep, cortisol rhythm, HRV trends, lactate
The Lounge Isn’t Food — It’s Infrastructure
Week 9 proved my travel system works: pre-decisions beat willpower, sleep changes Zone 2, and the lounge is infrastructure—not food. Next upgrade: fiber + a glycine experiment.
Measurement Over Myth
Modern performance culture is drowning in metrics and starving for interpretation. In this flagship manifesto, I examine wearable-estimated VO₂max versus lab testing (50 ml/kg/mi
The Special Operator Training System
For executive athletes who travel: a simple field manual to maintain endurance, strength, and recovery—without perfect schedules or hero workouts.
Performance Under Fuel Constraint
Does Zone 2 really burn more fat? Does fasted training improve endurance performance? This flagship pillar integrates substrate oxidation research, lactate curve modeling (mmol/L p
WbMT Weekly Journal — 2026-W08
A travel-heavy week with low training and fragmented sleep pushed my willpower to the edge—until a muddy walk to Neefapark, a small community bridge project, and a simple decisio
Executive Performance Physiology
Executive performance is physiology under constraint. This deep-dive integrates autonomic nervous system balance, allostatic load theory, sleep-stage disruption, substrate oxidatio
Metabolic Flexibility
Metabolic flexibility is not a diet trend — it is a physiological capacity. In this deep-dive, I examine substrate utilization curves, mitochondrial adaptation, RER interpretatio
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