Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

You Can't Out-Train a Broken System

Daily Chase #239

Apr 15, 2026
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Photo by Anastase Maragos on Unsplash

Our friend Spencer Nix shares a hard truth that a lot of us in the fitness world don’t want to hear: you can have a totally adequate amount of exercise and it will look like it’s ineffective because there are so many other things that are actually limiting your progress.

This is the mistake we made for years in the gy…

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