Recovery & Mindset

Train the commute

My commute used to be dead time — phone out, doom-scrolling, arriving home already fatigued from an hour of low-grade stress that accomplished nothing. Now it’s twenty-five minutes of walking with a podcast in and the phone in my pocket, screen off, and it counts as part of the program, not a gap between the parts that count.

The step count adds up to real recovery-adjacent activity without adding any fatigue that competes with training. More than that, it’s become the buffer between work-brain and home-brain, which turned out to matter more for consistency than I expected. Show up to the gym decompressed, not wound up from your inbox.