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Eat Train ProsperAuthor: Aaron Straker Bryan Boorstein
Eat Train Prosper, by coaches Aaron Straker and Bryan Boorstein provides tangible advice about lifting, nutrition, and incorporating these into your lifestyle to achieve prosperity. Topics include sustainable training principles for increasing strength, building muscle, effective nutrition to get and stay lean, men's health, improving recovery, and practical lifestyle habits. Become the champion of your own health, both inside and out. Language: en-us Genres: Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Benefits of Using Your Fitness | ETP#224
Tuesday, 18 August, 2026
This week we have a slightly different kind of episode. We talk less about the mechanics of training and more about the benefits of using your fitness out in the world, specifically outdoors. We talk about environment, how the right gym or the mountains can pull effort out of you when your own motivation is low.The back half of the episode revisits the Misogi Challenge and the value of planning something with a real chance of failure, why hard physical challenges reframe everyday life, and how the pursuit of hard things changes from your twenties to thirties and forties. It closes on the big one, using your fitness to buy a longer and more capable lifespan, why your 30s are when the trajectory of your actions starts to show, and why 56 does not look so old looking forward from 44.Covered in this episodePushing a session to a day you can actually give it a better effortHow environment, the right gym or the mountains, pulls effort out of youThe carryover that lets you hike well even at a heavier body weightAwe as a real mechanism, and why noticing is the key wordDacher Keltner's book on the science of everyday wonderKeeping the mountains from ever becoming just another WednesdayRevisiting the misogi and planning something with a real chance of failureWhy hard physical challenges reframe everyday life as manageableHow the pursuit of hard things changes from 24 to 34 to 44Using your fitness for a longer, more capable lifespanWhy your 30s are when the trajectory of your actions starts to showMountains versus the ocean, and the wildlife you only see out thereTimestamps00:00:00 - Intro00:05:00 - You don't have to train every day to keep your fitness00:09:30 - Environment and how the right gym pulls effort out of you00:13:30 - The benefits of using your fitness outdoors00:16:30 - Awe as a mechanism, and Keltner's science of wonder00:20:00 - Revisiting the misogi and planning something hard00:24:30 - Doing hard things, and how that pursuit changes with age00:32:00 - Using your fitness for a longer, more capable lifespan Training hard, but don't look like it? Aaron closes that gap ⬇️https://coach.strakernutritionco.com/applicationDone For You Client Check-In System for Coaches ⬇️https://strakernutritionco.com/macronutrient-reporting-check-in-template/Paragon Training Methods Programming ⬇️https://paragontrainingmethods.comFollow Bryan's Evolved Training Systems Programming ⬇️https://evolvedtrainingsystems.comFind Us on Social Media ⬇️IG | @Eat.Train.ProsperIG | @bryanboorsteinIG | @aaron_strakerYT | EAT TRAIN PROSPER PODCAST
