Will Ahmed
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first heard May 2025
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Modern Wisdom · The Downfall Of CrossFit & The Future Of Fitness - Will Ahmed - #943 · 19 May 2025
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Yeah.
Now, you know, if you're uploading a week of data, it might take, you know, a couple hours to upload, but yeah.
It's a little variable, but it's anywhere between probably 25 and 50. Right. So in terms of the number of times we're sampling a second.
That seems like kind of a breakthrough study.
I do think there's an element of if you can't be great at something, it's kind of like dangerous to be okay at it. Like there's part of me that feels like if I was even a mediocre musician, like I'd be playing at, you know, the local bar and that would, I would have, yeah, I'd have no entrepreneurial anything. It just would have been this like... You certainly want to pick your pursuits.
Playing a bad saxophone.
That is interesting. Although it had me thinking that there are things in my life that I like to do or have liked to do just because I was getting a little better, but I wasn't obsessed with, you know what I mean? Like I played in a soccer league from the ages of like 25 to 32. And I was, you know, there were some sports I was athletically I would say more gifted at.
I wouldn't say soccer was ever one of them. But I just enjoyed it so much, like running around like a total goof kid with refs and 90-minute games and whatever. I would say an okay cook, and I like to cook steaks and stuff from time to time. But I don't necessarily feel bothered that I'm not making a better steak than... you know, fill in the blank down the road here in Austin.
Like you can, I think you can pursue some of these things with just an eye towards getting better. And I actually think there are, I think there's something for people older in life picking up particularly activities that they can get better at. Because there's sort of this comfort with doing the thing that you did in college or you did on some high school team.
And you do like a bad version of it as you're older. And you always think about, oh, I wish I was this younger. But if you can get into lifting weights, for example, and all of a sudden you see the numbers going up a little bit over time or yoga or Pilates. I think that's great.
And you don't need to become a yoga instructor. Yeah. Progress. I think progress matters.
It's hard to keep score too. Yes.
Golf, golf, you can keep score.
But I do believe that you can't – you have to be careful how many desires you have at the same time because that's essentially this contract with yourself to be – unhappy until you get what you want.
And you want to pick a couple of lanes, ideally only one or two lanes where you're really all in, because if you try to do too many things at once that to be great at, you know, it's, you're not, you're not going to be great at all.
That's been a theme of this conversation with the athletes and, you know, all of it.
Yeah, you go to the Taylor Swift concert, but you don't see her training at 8 a.m., singing her entire set list on a treadmill.
Yeah, I mean... One thing I was just reflecting on and listening to your very healthy day is like... I realized there aren't that many days in my life over the course of a year where I'm like, oh, today I have a big blank. You know, it's almost like it feels like every day I go into it trying to have a similar output and a similar sort of, you know, game plan, you know.
Yeah. And so in terms of my morning routine, Wake up, shower, work out with a trainer, sauna, cold plunge, meditate, breakfast, off to work. I mean, that's kind of like the perfect morning for me.
That's three days a week when I'm in Boston. And then... you know, the Tuesday and the Thursday I'll try to work out. So that Monday, that's Monday, Wednesday, Friday. And then like the Tuesday and the Thursday, I'll try to do something on my own in the morning. Um, or for the last six weeks, it's been more like family time in the morning.
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