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The System Was Never Built For Us

I want to be upfront about what this post is.  This is not a fitness post in the traditional sense. There's no training tip here, no programming advice. But it might be the most important thing I've written on this blog because it's about the context that everything else lives inside of. The world you're trying to build a body, a business, a life in. And once I understood that context clearly, it changed how my approach to life I've been sitting with this for years. It started as a feeling that something didn't add up. It became a framework. And now it's just my perspective. The School System Prepared You For Something. Just Not What They Said. College and career ready.  The one consistent message I heard throughout my K-12 Education. My entire educational life. It was the goal, the benchmark, the thing the whole system was supposedly oriented around. And I believed it for a long time, because why wouldn't you? You're inside it. You don't have a ...

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