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Universal principles applied to living a good life. Learned from 16 years of strength training and building a business around it.

Newsletter · By Eric Seidel · English · Official site

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Sep 24, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    This article is for you when you are in your 30s and don’t like the direction your life is taking (opens the original)

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    Last year, a friend of mine went to a national bodybuilding championship and took fifth place in his class. After the contest, he was thankful for the experience but wasn’t sure if he’d ever wanted to do the strenuous prep work needed again. I’m not sure how familiar you are with bodybuilding and contest prep, but it isn’t even the grueling training that is hard, but rather the diet. Constant hunger, low energy, irregular sleep, mental fog and being cold even in the summer heat.(At least from wh

  2. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    200 bucks for all the fitness equipment you’ll ever need. (opens the original)

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    Going to a gym sucks. Sometimes.It’s Monday, you just came from work and need to get a quick workout in. You enter the gym after being stuck and traffic. The atmosphere is off. The people are overly passive aggressive. Again. The stench is... well what do you expect when you stuff a bunch of adults, who just came from their day jobs, into a small facility with equipment designed to make you sweat?Oh, and also somehow the exact equipment you need to use next has a waiting line that might make you

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