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
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.
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
Synthesis — 2026-W06
A week that started with a family birthday and ended in Dublin nightlife. Between Istanbul airports, delays, and security checks, I leaned on a simple system: fasted training windo
Mitochondria Don’t Need a Reboot — They Need Better Inputs
Most “stuck metabolism” content is a mash-up of real biology and wishful storytelling. This post separates signal from noise: why plateaus happen, what metabolic flexibility ac
Istanbul Travel Week: Fasted Runs, Client Meetings, Jet Lag — and Keeping the System in Motion
Istanbul was chaos: long travel days, client meetings, jet lag, and catch-up work after hours. I didn’t aim for perfection. I aimed for a tiny system that still works when life g
DB Roulette, Backup Plans, and Aerobic Proof
A real week of work travel and family life: DB Roulette buffers, a hotel-gym pivot, an errand run, and a 13.42 km Nordic ski in Z1–Z2.
The 3 Types of Hunger (and My 15:30 Trap)
Winter snacking in the home office hits hardest at 15:30. Here are the 3 types of hunger and simple resets that break the loop.
Six-Pack Challenge — Recomposition Under Constraint (Work in Progress)
This Six-Pack Challenge is still running. The goal hasn’t been abandoned, but the timeline has been recalibrated. Over the last months, abdominal fat has fluctuated up and down u
Applied System — Operating Manual for Performance Under Constraint
High performance does not fail because of a lack of information. It fails because volatility accumulates under real-world constraint—travel, workload, stress, sleep erosion, and
