The Builder's Body

I've got no interest in your physique. Genuinely. If you want to look like a magazine that's a different book by a different man. This is about something the gym industry doesn't sell because it can't put it on a poster: physical capacity. The ability to get up every day with enough in the tank to do hard mental work for hours and not be a husk by dinner. When I'm physically depleted I make weak decisions, I avoid hard conversations, I take the easy road every time. A tired man is a coward, and he doesn't even know it — he just thinks the bold move is a bad idea. Depletion doesn't announce itself. It feels like wisdom. Depleted men build n…