How Performance Addiction is Killing Your Performance




The Kryptonite Report Strength Podcast» Podcast show

Summary: I return this week with a new cut from our ol’ friend, “The Father of Performance Lifestyle,” JAM: John Allen Mollenhauer. If you’ve ever felt you’re working yourself to “death” or known a level of fatigue that has you pondering ever moving again, you gotta listen. You gotta learn what JAM has to offer about our NATIONAL obsession with PERFORMANCE and how we’ve taken a great thing and turned it into an addiction. Yes, and we talk about how to STOP DOING and START UN-DO-ING. How to step out of the human doing and back into BEING. Perfectly, we open with: The Beauty of Old School Iron Finding Your Zen Zone • Why iron remains the most common, most popular method of training (outside walking a treadmill) • What’s YOUR STORY of Strength, Health and Fitness? Is it serving you? • The Physical Culture of Strength (see Strong & Shapely Gym) • The downfall of “fitness hacks” • Performance Addiction – Is it ruining your life and performance • The minimalism fallacy: Why faster misses the point (using sex as example) • Why sex without the relationships is like dessert without the flavor (calories) • Resultitus • Performance Addiction and Bodybuilder vs. The Type-A Man • How to truly claim your time for healthy, strong, life (without guilt or stress) • How to hack bread