Dr. Martin Picard

So there was a limit, right?

And for me, that limit was 20, 22 hours.

And maybe that's why I never became a professional cyclist.

I wanted to at some point.

I thought maybe after undergrad, I'll be a professional cyclist.

But you realize you need to spend a lot of hours on the bike to do this.

And my limit was that, right?

And I did some plyometrics and some other sprint building exercises, and I weighed like 10, 15 more pounds than I do now.

I was investing more resources there.

Then when I started a PhD, I was more inspired to, at some point it was like, okay, do I write this paper or do I go for a three-hour bike ride and then spend like three-hour recovering, making a great amount of food?

So the trade-offs at some point I started to feel like I want to put my energy towards, you know, developing these ideas.

And so there was kind of a trade-off from athletic performance, you know, and muscle building towards more intellectual activities.

And that sweet spot I think is unique to each person.

And some people I think use running as a –

as like a therapy.

Some people use eating, some people use running, some people use gambling, you know, whatever it is for you.

So I don't know that there's kind of a number of hours, number of miles per week, for sure not.

And whether you do something, you know, that inspires you or whether you do something and it's a fucking grind, like I think that makes a difference for how much energy you have to do it and how much is good for you.

I know you spent a lot of time in the gym, Steven Pressfield, who you chatted to, and this concept of resistance.

I think that there's something there.