Where 2.8 ounces of meat a day will get you

+ MAHA date night

Good morning everyone.

Last weekend I did a CrossFit competition with CrossFit Kevin. We did not win. Nor were we remotely close to winning. And Kevin is still not over it.

All week I’ve been getting texts of regret and disappointment, thoughts clearly keeping him awake at night.

Kevin at 2:09am Sunday morning:
“I can’t believe I missed that 235# snatch.”

Kevin at 11:04pm Tuesday night:
“Do you think if we’d strategized the rowing workout better we could’ve had a shot?”

Kevin at 4:10am Thursday morning:
“Heading to the gym. Still can’t get over my effort on the Echo Bike. Time to train. No excuses.”

Then this morning Kevin’s wife texted me asking if I could come over for an intervention. Apparently he’d been doing an every-minute-on-the-minute of strict handstand push-ups through the night. He was on hour 12—a protest of sorts—saying he wouldn’t stop until he felt improvement.

Anyway. Enough about Kevin’s midlife crisis.

How are YOU doing, Buttercups? Life still treating you alright?

• Speaking of not being enough physically, a new study out of Finland found that the right playlist can increase workout endurance by up to 20% for the average athlete. Researchers divided two groups of cyclists, and the ones with their own killer playlists lasted much longer than the group cycling in silence. What this tells us? Kevin and I need a better gym playlist.